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Billionaire investor Carl Icahn says he wants to buy Commercial Metals Co. for about $1.73 billion and says he has no confidence in its board […]

Don and Louise Beauchamp owned a home in London, Ont., and during the six years they lived there they renovated their basement, first using it […]

Forecasters say Kenneth continues to weaken and has been downgraded to a tropical depression in the eastern Pacific.
There is no threat to land from what […]

Illegal eavesdropping was widely practiced by Britain’s tabloid journalists, producing stories that were both intrusive and untrue, a lawyer for several phone hacking victims said […]

Stocks are plunging at midday after Congress’ latest bid to resolve the federal budget gridlock appeared to fail.
The Dow Jones industrial average is down 327 […]

As retailers battle to draw customers into their stores on Black Friday, online merchants are plotting a cunning ambush

Signs of future growth in the U.S. economy and a drop in borrowing costs for embattled European countries pushed stocks higher in morning trading Friday.
The […]

Greece was negotiating with international bankers Wednesday over the details of a euro100 billion ($135 billion) writedown of its debt, as the country’s new prime […]

Companies paid less in October for gas, new cars and other goods, driving down wholesale prices for the first time since June. The report indicates […]