WASHINGTON -- The number of people requesting unemployment benefits declined for the second straight week, suggesting that the slowing economy isn't prompting widespread job cuts.
WASHINGTON -- Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told a panel investigating the financial crisis that regulators must be ready to shutter the largest institutions if they threaten to bring down the financial system.
NEW ORLEANS -- The image of thick crude gushing from a blown-out oil well a mile beneath the Gulf of Mexico was turned off when a tightly fitting cap was secured on top a month-and-a-half ago.
SILVER SPRING, Md. -- A gunman police shot to death after he took hostages at Discovery Channel's headquarters said he hated the company's shows such as "Kate Plus 8" because they promote population growth and its environmental programming because it did little to save the planet.
VALLEJO, Calif. -- A murder suspect who led officers on a high-speed chase with his dead girlfriend in the passenger seat is a central figure in the investigation of at least four killings, authorities said Wednesday.
EVERETT, Wash. -- A sheriff's spokeswoman in Washington state says tips from the public helped authorities make an arrest following a search for an armed suspect Wednesday that shut down a busy freeway and disrupted commuter traffic.
NEW YORK -- It is "unethical, insensitive and inhumane" to oppose the planned mosque near ground zero, more than 50 leading Muslim organizations said Wednesday as they cast the intense debate as a symptom of religious intolerance in America.
IOWA CITY, Iowa -- A University of Iowa football player was hit by a truck while riding his motorcycle.
CHICAGO -- The idea seemed simple though bold: Call reputed gang leaders to a meeting with top police and federal prosecutors and deliver an ultimatum to end killings in the nation's third-largest city.
SILVER SPRING, Md. -- A man who railed against the Discovery Channel's environmental programming for years burst into the company's headquarters with at least one explosive device strapped to his body Wednesday and took three people hostage at gunpoint before police shot him to death, officials said.
NAGS HEAD, N.C. -- Hurricane Earl steamed toward the Eastern Seaboard on Wednesday as communities from North Carolina to New England kept a close eye on the forecast, worried that even a slight shift in the storm's predicted offshore track could put millions of people in the most densely populated part of the country in harm's way.
WETHERSFIELD, Conn. -- Most students are heading back to school, and that means children are getting off buses and walking home along busy streets.
President Obama called America's troops the "steel in our ship of state." Many of those men and women of steel -- and the parents who helped forge them -- said they think the president is plotting the right course as he declares an end to combat in Iraq.
PORTLAND, Ore. -- Six men who alleged they were sexually abused by an Oregon Boy Scouts leader in the 1980s have settled their lawsuits against the group's national organization for undisclosed amounts, the plaintiffs' attorney said Wednesday.
NEW YORK -- A police officer accused of not helping an 11-year-old girl dying of an asthma attack has been suspended without pay.
Life can be a little bit more tough when you do not get enough sleep, making focus and concentration difficult during the day.
NEW YORK -- U.S. manufacturing expanded in August for the 13th straight month, lifting hopes that economic growth won't stall.
DETROIT -- Auto sales, once a bright spot in the economic recovery, stalled last month as the nation's largest car companies reported falling sales.
CATTARAUGUS INDIAN RESERVATION, N.Y. -- The latest in a tangled series of state and federal court decisions has halted New York state's plan to collect taxes on cigarettes sold by Native American retailers to non-Indian customers.
COLLINGDALE, Pa. -- Multiple explosions have been reported at a welding supply company in suburban Philadelphia and police are evacuating residents of the surrounding area.