K Street lobbyists say their near-term priorities are scandal-...

The USD continued its rally this week and took out 2012 highs aided by strong US consumer confidence. There was more talk of the ECB easing which helped global equity markets sustain a continuous increase. In the US, Sarah Bloom, a member of the ...

World champion hurdler Jason Richardson is confident a new generation of Chinese athletes will rise up and fill the shoes of Liu Xiang. With oft-injured Liu, the former world and Olympic champion, slowly fading from the track and field spotlight, ...

Is America's century-old infatuation with the automobile fading? Have the machines that helped liberate our parents and grandparents from cramped urban quarters (or isolated farms) and the rigid schedules of buses and trains while freeing them to ...

On the back of improved spending data in April, US consumer confidence surged to its highest level since July 2007, when the gauge hit 90.4. The preliminary U. of Michigan Confidence for May improved to 83.7 from 76.4, easily eclipsing the expected ...

Super middleweight contender James DeGale, a 2008 Olympic gold medalist for Great Britain, will make his North American debut on Friday when he faces Sebastien Demers at Casino du Lac-Leamy in Gatineau, Quebec. DeGale (14-1, 9 KOs), fighting for the ...

The Obama administration was brandishing a confident swagger back then, heading into the elections against a hobbling GOP opponent, and Benghazi had yet to unfold in all of its ugliness. As Hillary Clinton was jetting around on the US State ...

Randstad study finds reinvestment in sector could deliver a stronger resurgence The quarterly Randstad Manufacturing Employee Confidence Index measures overall confidence among manufacturing workers. In the first quarter of 2013, that confidence ...

In the Frightened Heart of Me recounts Williams last days from the perspective of an intimate friend and confidant. In his unprecedented, welcome new memoir (published by iUniverse), author Tony Narducci recalls the details of traveling with famous ...

Monday morning I woke up way too early, checked my Twitter and read a fellow music critic confidently declare that Mariah Carey had just released the "song of the summer." I groaned, rolled over and tried to go back to sleep, filled with a ...