Heritage Auctions has announced the sale of a Roosevelt dime that was minted onto a nail.Heritage Auctions via AP President Obama has finalized a pay raise for federal employees in…
predicted to have enormous opening weekend
Hasbro on Friday filed a response to a lawsuit denying a toy inventor’s claims that her late husband owns the rights to the board game, The Game of Life.Steven Senne/Associated…
WARSAW, Poland – An 18th-century marble bust of the goddess Diana looted by the Nazis in 1940 has returned to Warsaw from Vienna, where it recently surfaced at an auction…
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis., left, and Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers, R-Ky., return to Ryan’s office after passing a $1.1 trillion omnibus bill Friday. President Barack Obama…
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada said his remarks about Democrats maybe being responsible for Congress’ inability to get new gun control legislation passed were misinterpreted.J. Scott Applewhite/Associated Press…
A job seeker fills out an application during a National Career Fairs job fair in Chicago. The U.S. Labor Department reported Friday that unemployment fell in 27 states in November,…
says country meeting terms of treaty sooner than expected
Now he may get the chance to walk everyday: The VA has agreed to pay for the powered exoskeleton for eligible paralyzed veterans with spinal cord injuries – marking the…
NEW ORLEANS – New Orleans’ leaders on Thursday made a sweeping move to break with the city’s Confederate past when the City Council voted to remove prominent Confederate monuments along…
Martin Shkreli, the former hedge fund manager under fire for buying a pharmaceutical company and ratcheting up the price of a life-saving drug, is escorted by law enforcement agents in…
New Orleans officials are expecting supporters to file lawsuits to stop the city from removing the Robert E. Lee Monument and three other monuments in New Orleans. The City Council…
Federal investigators are investigating whether Syed Farook and his friend, Enrique Marquez, were planning a terror attack in 2012. Marquez, whose home in Riverside, Calif., was raided by FBI agents…
Lawmakers around the country are calling for harsher laws and stiffer penalties against people who make public threats. Backers say new laws can help deter hoaxes such as the one…
Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said the Fed’s decision to raise rates Wednesday was to ensure her agency had the tools it needed should the U.S. economy slip into a…
The Egyptian Museum in Cairo has put the golden burial mask of King Tutankhamun back on display after repairs were finished.Nariman El-Mofty/Associated Press file photo BALTIMORE – A judge declared…
The Federal Reserve, which is chaired by Janet Yellen, announced the first interest rate hike in years Wednesday.Susan Walsh/Associated Press file photo The Fed’s move Wednesday to lift its key…
Google is one of several companies working on prototypes for self-driving vehicles. California regulators issued proposed rules Wednesday saying self-driving cars will need to have someone behind the wheel ready…
Workers build smartphones at Motorola” plant in Fort Worth, Texas. The Federal Reserve reported that U.S. industrial production was down 0.6 percent in November.LM Otero/Associated Press file photo American industrial…
Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., said a new cybersecurity bill that is included in the budget bill Congress is expected to approve this week will protect individuals’ privacy while doing a…
U.S. jails now hold nearly 700,000 inmates on any given day, up from 157,000 in 1970, and the Vera Institute of Justice found that smaller counties now hold 44 percent…
Amano The probe had to be formally ended as part of a July 14 deal between Iran and six nations that involves the removal of economic sanctions on Tehran in…
WASHINGTON – The United States and Cuba are close to an agreement on restoring regularly scheduled, commercial flights between the countries, a senior American diplomat said Tuesday, as talks on…
PARIS – A French judicial official and French police say a 29-year-old man has been arrested and is being held for questioning about the deadly Nov. 13 attacks in Paris.…
York City holds classes after deciding threat was hoax
