Obama nominates Furman as top economic adviser
For someone with a reputation for seeking varying points of view before staking out a position or offering advice, Jason Furman was once, well, quite ...
As Japan seeks revival, hedge funds bet on a bust
Until a couple of months ago, Takashi Yamada had one of the most genteel jobs in Japan. Now, his days are so harried he doesn't have time to eat lunch
APNewsBreak: Pallone says he's in NJ Senate race
U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone said Sunday that he's officially in the race to fill the U.S. Senate seat occupied by Frank Lautenberg and can win the ...
Ayotte to back immigration overhaul
Republican Sen. Kelly Ayotte on Sunday said she would support the bipartisan immigration overhaul under debate in the Senate and criticized "the ...
Obama pressed Chinese leader on cybersecurity
President Barack Obama used an unusually lengthy and informal desert summit to present Chinese President Xi Jinping with detailed evidence of ...
Candidate vows to reset Iran's foreign ties
Iran's former top nuclear negotiator, a candidate in next week's presidential elections, vowed Saturday he will reset the country's economy and ...
State laws varied on gun, abortion laws
The U.S. Supreme Court says women in America can terminate a pregnancy and that every citizen has an individual right to own a firearm, but those ...
US officials long denied massive data trawling
Top officials of the Bush and Obama administrations have repeatedly denied in recent years that the National Security Agency collected massive caches ...
Stocks jump after US jobs report beats forecasts
Steady growth in hiring last month sent the stock market sharply higher Friday. The 175,000 jobs added by U.S. employers last month was just what ...
Economy adds 175K jobs, jobless climbs to 7.6 pct.
More Americans hunted for jobs in May, and more companies filled them — signs of confidence and resilience for the slow-healing U.S. economy.
Obama pitches new health care law in California
President Barack Obama on Friday encouraged the uninsured or those paying high prices for health insurance to sign up for coverage under his health ...
Iranian candidates quarrel over nuclear talks
Iran's eight presidential candidates quarreled about talks with world powers over the country's disputed nuclear program Friday as they held their ...
Health care thorny issue in immigration debate
Health care coverage for newly legalized immigrants is emerging as a thorny issue in Congress' drive to remake the nation's immigration system, posing ...
Appeals court says USTR can withhold document
An appeals court ruled Friday that the U.S. Trade Representative can withhold a classified position paper prepared during free-trade negotiations, ...
Global markets rise after US jobs report
Stock markets rose on Friday after a U.S. jobs report suggested the Federal Reserve is likely to keep its stimulus program going for now. The Labor ...
Club of rich, powerful meet in secret near London
It's a busy weekend at the luxury Grove Hotel, favored haunt of British soccer players and their glitz-loving spouses. More than 100 of the world's ...
Ariz. sheriff suspends immigration efforts
An Arizona sheriff who led the way for local police across the country to take up immigration enforcement is reconsidering his crackdowns — and other ...
May US jobs report in spotlight at time of concern
The government's release Friday of the May jobs report comes at a time of anxiety over the U.S. economy and whether the Federal Reserve will soon ...
Monumental phone-records monitoring is laid bare
A leaked document has laid bare the monumental scope of the government's surveillance of Americans' phone records — hundreds of millions of calls — ...
US Treasury sets price for GM stock shares
The U.S. Treasury Department on Thursday set a price of $34.41 per share for the sale of 30 million shares of General Motors stock. Treasury said the ...
GM CEO says dividend, share buyback possible
General Motors CEO Dan Akerson says the company's finances are sound enough to consider paying a dividend or even buying more of its stock from the U.
Republicans: Give governors more school say
Education Secretary Arne Duncan and his successors would be relegated to cheerleaders for the nation's schools, and governors would be put in charge ...
US mulls withdrawal of Bangladesh trade privileges
A prominent Democratic senator Thursday pushed for suspending duty-free privileges to Bangladesh, saying it would send a strong signal that the United ...
House passes measure to deport young immigrants
The Republican-controlled House voted Thursday to resume the deportation of hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought illegally to the United States ...
House passes $45B homeland security spending bill
The House on Thursday passed a $45 billion measure boosting the Homeland Security Department's budget by about 2 percent above spending levels imposed ...
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