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As giant oil companies like Exxon Mobil and ConocoPhillips get set to report what will probably be another round of eye-popping quarterly profits, just where is all that money going?

Winners of new wireless licences will need to spend billions more to upgrade or build from scratch their high-speed networks

Los Angeles police Chief William Bratton wants to loosen his department's review and punishment process for officers who violate use-of-force rules. The Los Angeles Police Commission is set to vote Tuesday on Bratton's proposal, which would alter a review...

People planning for retirement got a new tool this week: a fast and easy online estimator for their Social Security benefits. The Social Security Administration unveiled its retirement estimator on its Web site Monday. It takes just a few points and clicks...

In the latest disappointment for cholesterol pill Vytorin, a major European study in patients with heart valve disease found the drug didn't prevent worsening of the disease or lower the need for valve surgery, sending its makers' stock plunging. Results of a...

A Huntsman Corp. shareholder has launched her own offensive against Hexion Specialty Chemicals' attempt to back out of its agreement to acquire the Utah-based chemicals conglomerate.

Democrats and Republicans queasy about a federal rescue of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are coalescing around the idea of letting the government slap limits on the multimillion-dollar pay packages of their executives. Key lawmakers _ puzzling...

German Web site doesn't deny it's similar to Facebook, but accuses rival of trying to create monopoly over social networking sites.

Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. said examiners are inspecting the books of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

A new business serves those who want to eat food grown close to home but do not want to get their hands dirty.