Ford Motor Co. is replacing embattled Chief Executive Officer Mark Fields with Jim Hackett, a turnaround specialist who has been leading the automaker’s moves...
In 1944, president Franklin Roosevelt urged Congress to pass a "second bill of rights." Number six on the list was "the right to adequate medical care and the...
Campaign promises may have been reshaped and some self-imposed deadlines reset.
The U.S. dollar rebounded Thursday after sliding a day earlier following remarks by President Donald Trump on the currency and interest rates, while a...
Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen said Monday that the central bank is close to achieving its goals on employment and inflation. Her remarks could be seen as...
Colson Whitehead’s “The Underground Railroad,” his celebrated novel about an escaped slave that combined liberating imagination and brutal reality, has won...
A presidential speech to Congress is one of those all-American moments that ooze ritual and decorum.
The number of older Americans taking multiple prescription drugs such as tranquilizers, antidepressants, antipsychotics and painkillers has more than doubled...
The Arab Spring may seem like a distant memory, but a new report by a team of Arab and American analysts argues that across the Middle East people still feel...
With four Super Bowl wins in a career which has spanned 16 seasons, Tom Brady has already earned the right to be regarded as one of the quarterback greats.
There's a new thrill on the streets of downtown Las Vegas.
U.S. and Chinese data and an expected news conference by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump in the coming week may shed some light on the state of the world’s...
Jill Stein's bid to recount votes in Pennsylvania was in trouble even before a federal judge shot it down Dec. 12. That's because the Green Party candidate's...
Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein Thursday reached her goal to raise $2.5 million to request a recount in Wisconsin, one of three states where she...
Americans vote Tuesday in one of the country’s most bitterly contested elections following months of raucous and aggressive campaigning by Republican Donald...
Many Muslim Americans cringe at the way they have been portrayed by candidates during the presidential campaign – either as potential terrorists or as eyes...
If 2008 was a sharp reminder that banking matters, then 2016 has reminded us that politics matters too. In both cases, the reminder has not been especially...
Oct 24 (Reuters) - Tom Hayden, a 1960s anti-war activist and one of the era's most prominent, counter-culture radicals who went on to serve in the California...
In many Western democracies, this is a year of revolt against elites.
Donald Trump once claimed to be publicity shy.