French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel are leading a proposal that calls for mandatory reporting of all derivatives trading in Europe as a way of clamping down on the type of speculation that has undermined the euro in r...

(These are the prepared remarks of Education and Committee Chairman George Miller from today's press conference on the urgent need to include student loan reform...

In the face of growing popular opposition to the war in Afghanistan, the US House of Representatives voted by overwhelming majorities of both Democrats and Republicans to continue the war, which the O...

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.

DENVER — Jurors have reached a verdict in the Darrent Williams slaying trial, but it hasn’t been announced. Defendant Willie Clark was taken to the courtroom Thursday to hear the decision. He’s charged with first-degree murder and other counts....

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.

U.S. stock index futures are fractionally lower this morning after a mixed-bag session in Asia and currently weak trading in Eurozone and U.K. markets

Greek police fired tear gas to disperse protesters throwing rocks and firebombs outside Parliament as more than 20,000 people marched through Athens to protest the government's new austerity measures. The strike grounded all flights and brought publi...

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...

Shares of some top telecom companies are mixed at noon: