Oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico leads to perhaps one of the biggest recent finds in the Gulf of Mexico, the first since last year's massive BP spill. ExxonMobil has adjusted its oil drilling plan to meet new federal guidelines.
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 - Public schools in Philadelphia and parts of New Jersey and Maryland cut their days short, worried about students sweltering in temperatures in the 90s.
AP - Scandal-scarred Rep. Anthony Weiner is clinging to his perch in Congress despite new efforts to pry him away and a pair of developments that might inspire others in his position to give up the fight:
AP - Everyone Osama bin Laden ever wrote to, spoke to or even mentioned in the volumes of correspondence seized from his Pakistan hideout is under new scrutiny, U.S. officials say.
The National Weather Service lifted the "red flag" fire alert Thursday for eastern Arizona, where unyielding winds have swept a 10-day blaze into the record books.
A federal appeals court in Atlanta was openly skeptical that the sweeping health care reform law championed by President Obama would survive constitutional scrutiny.
Hurricane Adrian churned across the Pacific early Thursday as forecasters warned of dangerous surf and rip currents on the southwestern coast of Mexico.
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