New York Times reporter James McKinley Jr. was in Austin to cover a controversy over school curriculum in Texas, with conservatives on the state Board of Education trying to soften the liberal tone of the state's textbooks and include more records o...

Republican governor Bob McDonnell of Virginia, reversing his previous position, this week extended nondiscrimination protections to gay state workers. His emergence as a gay rights defender may signal that 'culture wars' issues loom less large within...

Energy company Western Gas Partners LP said its fourth-quarter profit fell 12.3 percent as volume fell, although the results were still above analyst expectations.

Shares of some top telecom companies are mixed at noon:

Discount chain Target Corp. said Thursday it named John Stumpf, chairman, president and CEO of banking company Wells Fargo & Co., to its board, effective immediately.

The biggest expansion of Australian working hours since 1998 may cause job gains to reaccelerate in coming months, forcing the central bank to raise interest rates higher than what Governor Glenn Stevens calls a neutral level.

Pierre-Henri Flamand, the head of Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s largest internal hedge fund, is retiring from the world’s most profitable securities firm to start a hedge fund, according to three people with knowledge of his plans.

Time Warner Inc. on Thursday said $773 million worth of notes were tendered under a debt repurchase offer that expired Wednesday.

NEW YORK (AP) — Chris Wright scored 27 points and No. 22 Georgetown sailed past No. 3 Syracuse with an impressive second-half surge, beating the top-seeded Orange 91-84 in the quartefinals of the Big East tournament Thursday. Though still a strong ca...

A former partner at JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s Cazenove unit was today sentenced to 21 months in prison for insider trading in London.