Home Secretary Theresa May faces more pressure to explain her handling of the decision to relax some border checks after the border force head steps down.
Sovereign debt? Less of a problem for us, says the investment bank Jefferies Group as it reduces its holdings in sovereign debt from five European countries.
A federal appeals court panel in Washinton, D.C., upholds the constitutionality of Obama's health-care reforms, the third to do so. The Supreme Court is scheduled to consider on Thursday whether to take up one or more challenges to the law.
The secrecy around Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s selection of Cathleen P. Black to run the city’s schools highlighted his faith in business leaders and dislike of public debate.
Starting Thursday, Wal-Mart plans to offer free shipping on its Web site, a move that may create an expectation among consumers and a threat to smaller retailers.
AP - Under rising pressure from fellow Republicans, presidential hopeful Herman Cain sought to muddy the reputation of one accuser, forcefully denied any and all allegations of sexual impropriety and vowed Tuesday the growing controversy would not drive him from the race for the White House.
AP - Mississippi voters Tuesday defeated a ballot initiative that would have declared life begins at fertilization, a proposal that supporters sought in the Bible Belt state as a way to prompt a legal challenge to abortion rights nationwide.
AP - The state's new collective bargaining law was defeated Tuesday after an expensive union-backed campaign that pitted firefighters, police officers and teachers against the Republican establishment.
Hundreds of rescue workers have been working through the night attempting to dig out any survivors after a 7.2-magnitude earthquake hit eastern Turkey, leveling dozens of buildings and killing hundreds.
CNN projects Ohio voters will reject a law limiting public workers' collective bargaining rights -- and approve the ability to opt out of federal health care mandates.
Herman Cain vehemently denied all sexual harassment allegations against him and said he had no memory of the first accuser to publicly describe his alleged misconduct.
Penn State head football coach Joe Paterno's weekly news conference was canceled Tuesday amid a child sex abuse scandal involving a former coach and two top university officials.
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