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- Tech, labor brandish dueling studies … Reuters - 4 hours ago
By Caren Bohan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The technology industry and organized labor are locked in a fight that threatens to complicate the U.S. Senate's immigration More »
IRS chief declines to identify employees … Reuters - 8 hours agoBy Andy Sullivan and Kim Dixon WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The outgoing head of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service angered Republican lawmakers on Friday by resisting More »
Colorado sheriffs sue to block new gun-control … Reuters - 5 hours agoBy Keith Coffman DENVER (Reuters) - A group of Colorado county sheriffs, angry about two new state gun control laws passed in the wake of last year's mass shootings More »
Obama seeks to cut Afghan war spending … Reuters - 7 hours agoBy Mark Felsenthal WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Friday trimmed his funding request for the war in Afghanistan and other overseas operations by More »
Commuter trains collide in Connecticut, … Reuters - 6 hours agoBy Michelle McLoughlin FAIRFIELD, Connecticut (Reuters) - A commuter train traveling eastbound from New York City derailed near the Connecticut suburb of Fairfield More »
China April home prices rise 4.9 percent: … Reuters - 7 hours agoBEIJING (Reuters) - Average new home prices in China's 70 major cities rose 4.9 percent in April from a year earlier, according to Reuters calculations based on More »
Judge revives Dexia's mortgage lawsuit … Reuters - 8 hours agoBy Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) - A federal judge has revived a closely watched lawsuit accusing JPMorgan Chase & Co of misleading Belgian-French bank Dexia SA into More »
- NYSE cancels irregular trades in Anadarko … Reuters - 8 hours ago
(Reuters) - The New York Stock Exchange canceled trades in Anadarko Petroleum Corp after a blip in trading cut the market value of the company by 99 percent, More »
Investor group calls on SEC to review … Reuters - 8 hours agoBy David Henry NEW YORK (Reuters) - Pension and endowment managers on Friday called on U.S. regulators to review the rules for shareholder voting after a firm More »
Yahoo to vote on $1.1 billion Tumblr … Reuters - 8 hours agoSAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc's board will meet on Sunday to vote on whether to offer $1.1 billion in cash for New York-based blogging service Tumblr, tech More »
Hall of Famer Venturi dies aged 82 Reuters - 8 hours ago(Reuters) - Former U.S. Open champion and television broadcaster Ken Venturi, a 14-times winner on the PGA Tour, died on Friday at the age of 82 following various More »
- Republicans see IRS scandal parallel … Reuters - 8 hours ago
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican lawmakers on Friday began an investigation into whether the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency greatly favored left-leaning More »
- Factbox: Key players in the IRS sca … Reuters - 8 hours ago
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Three congressional committees and the Department of Justice are investigating the Internal Revenue Service's scrutiny of conservative groups More »
Meteoroid impact triggers bright flash … Reuters - 9 hours agoBy Irene Klotz CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - An automated telescope monitoring the moon has captured images of an 88-pound (40 kg) rock slamming into the More »
- Amtrak suspends New York-Boston service … Reuters - 9 hours ago
(Reuters) - Amtrak indefinitely suspended service from New York's Penn Station to Boston on Friday after a Metro-North Railroad train derailed and struck another More »
Powerball jackpot grows to a record … Reuters - 9 hours ago(Reuters) - The jackpot for the Powerball lottery has soared to a record $600 million and the top prize may swell to nearly $1 billion if no one draws the winning More »
- Train derails in Connecticut, at least … Reuters - 9 hours ago
(Reuters) - Some 20 to 25 people were injured on Friday when a train derailed near Fairfield, Connecticut, but there were no reports of fatalities a police More »
- Virus found in Iowa hog population, … Reuters - 10 hours ago
By Ros Krasny WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A potentially fatal hog virus, porcine epidemic diarrhea, has been found in the United States for the first time, government More »
Target goes hunting in Silicon Valley, … Reuters - 10 hours agoBy Alistair Barr SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Target Corp said on Friday it opened a new San Francisco office to track down technology companies that can help the More »
Liberia's Johnson-Sirleaf defends governance … Reuters - 10 hours agoBy Lesley Wroughton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf on Friday defended her government's record on good governance and transparency, More »
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