WASHINGTON (AP) — As much as $170 million is needed to improve facilities for the troops stationed at the Guantanamo Bay detention center that President Barack Obama has marked for extinction, the top U.S. ... Read more
NEW YORK (AP) — The Federal Reserve is telling JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs that their plans for maintaining proper capital levels are weak. It ordered both banks to revise their plans by the end of ... Read more
WASHINGTON (AP) — A change in testing could nearly triple the number of women diagnosed with diabetes during pregnancy, but would catching milder cases help mother or baby? A government panel is urging more ... Read more
CAIRO (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says bickering Egyptian government and opposition leaders need to reach a political consensus to help their country emerge from an economic crisis. Kerry arrived ... Read more
WASHINGTON (AP) — Recent mass shootings like the massacre of first-graders and staffers at a Connecticut elementary school and the increasing deadliness of assault weapons make a ban on those firearms more ... Read more
NEW YORK (AP) — Help wanted. Qualifications: Must already have a job. It's a frustrating catch for those out of work in an era of high unemployment: looking for a job, only to find that some employers don't want ... Read more
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — An asteroid measuring 150 feet will zip past Earth next week. The megarock will pass within 17,000 miles of the planet — the closest known approach ever for an object of this ... Read more
WASHINGTON (AP) — Student athletes need access to health care professionals, better-trained coaches and up-to-date equipment, a coalition of groups recommended Wednesday in a call to action aimed at protecting ... Read more
WASHINGTON (AP) — Student athletes need access to health care professionals, better-trained coaches and up-to-date equipment, a coalition of groups recommended Wednesday in a call to action aimed at protecting ... Read more
BEIRUT (AP) — An Israeli air attack staged in Syria this week may be a sign of things to come. Israeli military officials appear to have concluded that the risks of attacking Syria are worth taking when compared ... Read more