
2 killed, dozens injured in bus crash near Dallas
At least two people were killed and more than 40 were hospitalized Thursday after a charter bus careened off a North Texas highway and flipped onto ...

GOP lawmakers subpoena emails of Labor nominee
GOP lawmakers have subpoenaed the private emails of Labor secretary-nominee Thomas Perez, a possible sticking point ahead of his Senate confirmation ...

Tracking Obama's health law in budget isn't easy
Next year is the year President Barack Obama's signature health care law goes into high gear, covering millions of uninsured Americans by a mix of ...
Barrick halts work on mine after Chile court rules
Barrick Gold Corp. suspended construction on its Pascua Lama mine Wednesday after a Chilean court ruled in favor of indigenous communities that say ...
Budget: cover uninsured, trim Medicare, tax cigs
President Barack Obama's new budget offers Medicare cuts to entice Republicans into tax negotiations, while plowing ahead to cover the uninsured next ...
Obama budget hints sale of largest public utility
The Obama administration's 2014 budget is calling for a strategic review of the Tennessee Valley Authority, opening the possibility that the largest U

Alert to Congress: Nuclear evacuation may bog down
Regulators and congressional investigators clashed Wednesday over a new report warning that in the event of an accident at a nuclear plant, panicking ...

Luxembourg agrees to help fight tax cheats
Luxembourg is to start exchanging information with the rest of Europe to help fight tax evasion, the government said Wednesday in a move it hopes will ...
Report: Kuwait proposes $1M fine for emir insults
Kuwait's information minister is defending a proposed media law that reports say could bring fines of about $1 million for insulting the Gulf nation's ...
Obama to nominate package of labor board members
President Barack Obama on Tuesday nominated three candidates for full terms on the National Labor Relations Board, which has been in limbo since a ...

NTSB: Pilot's texting contributed to copter crash
Texting by the pilot of a medical helicopter contributed to a crash that killed four people, federal accident investigators declared Tuesday, and they ...

Gambling parlors spent widely on Fla. officials
The number of strip-mall parlors with slot-like computer games such as those targeted in a racketeering investigation could shrink if the Florida ...
Senate approval seen for Obama health care nominee
Republican lawmakers are heaping praise on a former nurse picked by President Barack Obama to run Medicare and Medicaid, and also oversee his health ...
UK bank ex-CEO asks to be stripped of knighthood
The ex-chief executive of failed British bank HBOS wants to be stripped of his knighthood following a scathing report from the parliamentary banking ...
EU antitrust body probes MasterCard fees
The European Union has launched an antitrust investigation into some of MasterCard's payment fees. The European Commission, the EU's executive arm ...
Trial begins over baby food lead warning
An expert witness testified Monday that average lead levels in baby foods fall below the threshold for warning labels mandated under a California ...
Obama budget plan revisits small-bore budget cuts
Even as it adds fuel to battles over taxes and Social Security, President Barack Obama's budget will reprise lots of smaller bore proposals that have ...

UN: Chemical investigators ready to go to Syria
U.N. experts are ready to move into Syria immediately to investigate reported chemical weapons attacks but President Bashar Assad's government still ...
Financial hub Luxembourg under increased scrutiny
As the European Union's wealthiest country, Luxembourg could have been forgiven for thinking that it would never find itself on the bloc's financial ...

Risk for Obama in pursuing morning-after pill case
President Barack Obama supports requiring girls younger than 17 to see a doctor before buying the morning-after pill. But fighting that battle in ...

FAA delays closing of airport control towers
The closings of control towers at 149 small airports, due to begin this weekend because of government-wide spending cuts, are being delayed until ...

Aid groups: US should send cash, not food, abroad
Food aid groups are urging the Obama administration to overhaul the way the United States helps starving people abroad. The White House will not say ...
UK lawmakers launch attack on failed bank execs
A group of British lawmakers launched a scathing attack Friday on the men who ran failed lender Halifax Bank of Scotland — blaming their "toxic" ...

Immigration bill envisions new farm worker program
Sweeping immigration legislation taking shape in the Senate will aim to overhaul the nation's agriculture worker program to create a steady supply of ...

UN adopts treaty to regulate global arms trade
The U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly approved the first international treaty regulating the multibillion-dollar global arms trade Tuesday, after ...