WASHINGTON — U.S. employers added a solid 223,000 jobs in June, and the unemployment rate fell to 5.3 percent, a seven-year low. The numbers reflect a job market moving ...
WASHINGTON — A lockdown was under way today across the Washington Navy Yard campus after reports of shots fired, but a senior law enforcement official said those reports...
NYC reviewing his contracts
LOS ANGELES — The Macy’s department store chain joined an ongoing exodus from association with Donald Trump and New Mexico’s governor and New ...
LOS ANGELES — Jack Carter, whose brash, caustic comedy made him a star in early television and helped him sustain a career of more than a half-century in TV, nightclubs,...
Action follows court decision
SALT LAKE CITY — The Episcopal Church has completed its embrace of gay rights, changing church law to allow same-sex religious marriages thr...
Airlines facing scrutiny for high fairs
WASHINGTON — The U.S. government is investigating possible collusion among major airlines to limit available seats, which keeps ai...
RALEIGH, N.C. — A shark bit a 68-year-old man several times Wednesday in waist-deep water off North Carolina’s Outer Banks, the seventh in a record-breaking year of shar...
Episcopalians voting on gay marriage
SALT LAKE CITY — Episcopalians are set to vote Wednesday on allowing religious weddings for same-sex couples, just days after the U....
Havana site to open in July
WASHINGTON — The United States and Cuba have agreed to open embassies in each other’s capitals, the biggest tangible step in the countries’ hi...
Superintendent, 11 others put on leave
ALBANY, N.Y. — The superintendent at the prison where two killers broke out has been placed on leave along with his security chief ...