Two U.S. Senators recently asked the Department of the Interior to review the amount of royalties being paid to federal and state governments for coal…
The Justice Department is nearing a $1.4 billion settlement with Transocean Ltd., the owner of the drilling rig that sank after an explosion killed 11…
While other data on Thursday showed an increase in the number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits, the trend remained consistent with steady…
U.S. factories returned to growth in December after contracting the previous month, the Institute for Supply Management said. Its index of national factory activity rose…
President Barack Obama and top congressional leaders met at the White House to work on a solution for the draconian debt-reduction measures set to take…
Senate leaders rushed to assemble a last-ditch agreement to avoid middle-class tax increases and possibly delay steep spending cuts in an urgent attempt to find…