Spending on U.S. construction projects is holding up better than expected, but it is likely to falter in the coming months.

Mexico's stock market faces a tough slog as the U.S. recession promises to hurt.

Citgo suspended contributions of home heating oil to poor U.S. households.

Bob McCann, the head of the brokerage force at Merrill Lynch, plans to leave just days after its acquisition by Bank of America was completed.

Microsoft promoted Bob Muglia to president of the company's server and tools business, making him one of four divisional presidents.

Prosecutors asked that Madoff be detained after he and his wife sent watches, jewelry and other heirlooms to his brother, his sons and a couple in Florida.

The Chicago Cubs and free agent Milton Bradley reached a preliminary agreement Monday on a $30 million, three-year contract, according to a person familiar with the negotiations. The deal...

State legislators weighing evidence against Gov. Rod Blagojevich may finish their work before getting any tapes of the governor's conversations that were made secretly by the FBI,...

Falcons general manager Thomas Dimitroff and head coach Mike Smith are done with "The Process."

AP - The Chicago Cubs and free agent Milton Bradley reached a preliminary agreement Monday on a $30 million, three-year contract, according to a person familiar with the negotiations. The deal is subject to a physical scheduled for Thursday, the person said, speaking on condition of anonymity because the deal had not been finalized.

NEW YORK, Jan. 5 (UPI) -- A woman's lawsuit against the New York City Transit Authority claims her 120-pound dog is protected under the Americans With Disabilities Act.

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 5 (UPI) -- The Los Angeles Clippers got center Cheikh Samb and cash considerations Monday from the Denver Nuggets for a future second-round pick.

MCLEAN, Va., Jan. 5 (UPI) -- Undefeated Pittsburgh sat atop the ESPN/USA Today men's basketball rankings Monday, with North Carolina falling from first to third after its first loss.

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 5 (UPI) -- Producers of "The Dark Knight," "Frost/Nixon" and "Milk" are among the nominees announced Monday for the Producers Guild of America's top film prize.

President-elect Barack Obama took his recovery package to Capitol Hill, working to build a bipartisan coalition to endorse his plan of tax cuts and new spending.

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Suffering a trauma could predispose children to chronic fatigue syndrome as adults, a study shows. In a report in today's Archives ...

Obama met with lawmakers to begin selling his stimulus plan as his advisers offered more details, including a proposal to expand the child tax credit for poor families.

CME Group reported that volume slid in December, increasing on the year but at the slowest pace since '99.

The U.K. plans to end its ban on short sales of financial stocks but said it would continue to ask hedge funds to disclose such positions.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Social Security Administration, which pays out $600 billion a year in benefits to retirees, may have underestimated how a decline in smoking will increase...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Top economists at the Allied Social Sciences Association's annual meeting have been searching -- in some cases, in vain -- for signs of life in the U.S. housing...

President George W. Bush is to announce the creation of the world's largest marine protection area spanning some 195,000 square miles (505,000 sq km) in the Pacific Ocean, a spokesman said...

(Kyodo) _ Tokyo stocks opened higher Tuesday in the first full trading day of 2009 as the U.S. dollar's appreciation against the yen encouraged investors to snap up export-oriented...

The United Nations said Monday there is an "increasingly alarming" humanitarian crisis in Gaza, directly contradicting Israeli denials that its offensive caused the growing problem. ...