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The Treasury Department is seeking to borrow $305 billion in the current quarter through December and announced plans to borrow $541 billion in the first […]

The nine justices of the Supreme Court, who serve without seeking election, soon will have to decide whether to insert themselves into the center of […]

Capping a campaign trip for his economic plan and his re-election, President Barack Obama on Tuesday tried to keep pressure on Congress to consider his […]

Consumers are paying more for pasta after heavy spring rain and record flooding prevented planting on more than 1 million acres in one of the […]

A new survey says salaried U.S. workers can expect another year of modest raises in 2012.
After increasing salaries by 2.6 percent this year and last […]

Moody’s Investors Service says the United States should be able to keep its triple-A credit rating as long as Washington works out a deal that […]

WASHINGTON — Amid rising American anger and rattled global markets, a deadlocked Washington stumbled another day nearer to the debt cliff with Republican hardliners showing […]

Planes are being built out of the same lightweight materials used for Formula 1 race cars. Their engines are being redesigned to squeeze more thrust […]

Jose Graziano da Silva of Brazil has been elected director-general of the Food and Agriculture Organization, the U.N. agency tasked with reducing world hunger at […]

A suicide bomber rammed his explosive-laden vehicle into a police building in the southern Iraqi city of Basra on Monday, killing five people, officials said.
Suicide […]