(New York, NY) -- The major stock indexes made modest gains Thursday ahead of Friday's government jobs report for August. A report on July's unexpected rise in pending home sales and better-than-expected August retail sales helped push the market higher...Read More
(Washington, DC) -- White House spokesman Robert Gibbs says a new economic stimulus package is "not in the offing." Gibbs said the White House will propose a number of steps to boost the sagging economy this fall ...Read More
(Undated) -- Labor Secretary Hilda Solis won't be taking a day off on Monday. Instead, she'll be busy unveiling a new website to help jobless people find a way to adapt their skills to a green workforce ...Read & Hear More
(Washington, DC) -- The severity of the 2008 economic crisis is being pinned on banks too big to fail and huge losses from subprime mortgages. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke talked to the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission today in Washington ...Read & Hear More
(Undated) -- New claims for unemployment benefits fell for the second straight week. The Labor Department reports there were 472-thousand initial claims in the week ending August 28th. That's a decrease of six-thousand from the previous week's revised figure of 478-thousand ...Read More
(Undated) -- The Coast Guard says an oil rig fire is out and there's no sign of an oil sheen on the Louisiana coast. Captain Peter Troedsson told reporters the rig's owner, Mariner Energy, first spotted a sheen and alerted the Coast Guard ...Read More
(Gray, ME) -- So where is Hurricane Earl going to go on its trek northward? The storm will affect North Carolina overnight and then it's expected to pass by Maine Friday night into Saturday morning ...Read More
(Hartford, CT) -- Connecticut Governor Jodi Rell has requested that President Obama declare a pre-landfall state of emergency in Connecticut because of Hurricane Earl. Rell made the request in a letter to the president Thursday afternoon ...Read & Hear More
(Undated) -- Actress Lindsay Lohan has fired off a cease and desist letter to her father, Michael Lohan. RadarOnline.com reports that the correspondence from Lindsay's lawyer orders Michael to discontinue his alleged sale of her diary ...Read & Hear More
(Undated) -- Move over, Glenn Beck. Stephen Colbert's fans are pushing for a "Restore Truthiness" rally on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. The Comedy Central icon coined the satirical term "truthiness" to mean something that people know from the gut is true, regardless of the facts ...Read More
(Undated) -- Reality TV personality Heidi Montag reportedly isn't allowing her sex tape to go into the marketplace. According to TMZ.com, the former star of MTV's "The Hills" and her estranged husband Spencer Pratt have ended negotiations with adult film distributor Vivid Entertainment ...Read More
