Nation World

Netflix signed up more new paying subscribers than expected during the first quarter, attracting 9.6 million new accounts during the period – the high...

High-paying blue-collar jobs lifted incomes in West Virginia, New York and Illinois last year, even though the states lost residents, while farmers an...

WASHINGTON -- The nation’s largest nursing home pharmacy, Omnicare Inc., has agreed to pay $28.125 million to resolve allegations that it solicited an...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Microchip Technology Inc. says it has a deal to acquire rival chipmaker Atmel for roughly $3.56 billion in cash and stock. Atmel Cor...

U.S. stocks struggled to end mostly higher, but oil and gas companies were hit by another plunge in the price of crude. Chevron lost 2 percent and Exx...

PALO ALTO, Calif. (AP) — With extremists finding fertile ground for recruitment online, the White House is dispatching top national security officials...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The latest developments surrounding the consumer-electronics show in Las Vegas known as CES (all times local): 10:30 a.m. Netflix sub...

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks dropped Wednesday as investors fretted about signs of belligerence from North Korea and more weakening of China's economy,...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Monsanto said Wednesday it will eliminate another 1,000 jobs as it expands a cost-cutting plan designed to deal with falling sales o...

BEIJING (AP) — A monthly survey shows that a contraction in Chinese manufacturing eased slightly in December, while service industries continued to ex...

The U.S. stock market took investors for a wild ride in 2015, but in the end it was a trip to nowhere. Despite veering between record highs and the st...

NEW YORK (AP) — Wal-Mart is turning to its marketing chief in China to shape how it relays its message to shoppers in the U.S. The world's largest ret...

WASHINGTON (AP) — JPMorgan Chase is paying $367 million to settle federal charges of failing to reveal conflicts of interest from steering clients int...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Anyone under the age of 18 would be barred from using indoor tanning equipment, under a federal proposal released Friday intended to...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Unemployment rates fell in more than half of U.S. states in November as employers stepped up hiring. The Labor Department said Frida...

Women may be badly outnumbered in the top ranks of corporate America, but at least they aren't underpaid. Compensation for female chief financial offi...

DETROIT (AP) — An electrical engineer with a doctorate degree from Stanford University has asked U.S. safety regulators to investigate low-speed unint...

NEW YORK (AP) — Comcast, the country’s largest cable company, is offering its own online video alternative as people spend fewer hours watching live T...

Natural gas overtook coal as the top source of U.S. electric power generation for the first time ever earlier this spring, a milestone that has been i...

NEW YORK (AP) — The Pope is on Twitter, along with the Dalai Lama, world leaders and, of course, Kim Kardashian. The short-messaging service can bring...