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In the absence of federal immigration reform and with an election drawing near, Homeland Security's workplace crackdown is attracting both praise and criticism

EBAY'S GOAL: The online auction company is still very profitable, but has struggled to bring in new users. So the company has taken several steps aimed at making shopping on eBay more attractive to buyers. THE FALLOUT: Some people who sell things on eBay say...

Some people who sell things on eBay are fed up with new rules the company has been imposing in hopes of making the auction site more attractive to online shoppers. Now even more changes are coming in the next few weeks, but this time eBay Inc. hopes it can...

Four small SUVs aced new Insurance Institute for Highway Safety crash tests. Four others didn't fare as well.

They survived war, but for some Iraq and Afghanistan veterans going to work back home isn't easy, either. An estimated 300,000 from the two wars have returned home with mental health problems, so-called invisible wounds, and about the same number suffered...

Barack Obama and John McCain have burnished images as politicians who keep special interests at arms' length, yet there won't be much stiff-arming at their nominating conventions. For the next two weeks _ in Denver and then St. Paul, Minn. _ corporations,...

Neither Barack Obama nor John McCain has consistently followed the government's instructions for keeping prohibited foreign money out of their presidential campaigns, and some of that banned money has slipped into Obama's campaign. During interviews with 123...

The soaring cost of steel has Toyota considering raising prices in Japan without a model makeover for the first time in three decades, the Japanese automaker said Wednesday. Speculation has been rife Toyota Motor Corp. will be forced to announce higher prices...

We made it through the bursting of the Internet bubble and now the bursting of the real estate bubble. Next we may be approaching the end of the most worrisome bubble of all: the standard-of-living bubble.

Four small sport utility vehicles received top scores in crash tests to be released Wednesday by the insurance industry, a sign of improvement compared with SUVs built earlier in the decade.