NEW YORK (AP) — Stock prices are shaking off a morning slump and turning higher in midday trading on Wall Street.
Macy's rose 2 percent, or 97 cents, to $48.36 after reporting a 20 percent profit increase, despite cool temperatures.
The market got off to a weak start after the Federal Reserve reported that manufacturing slowed last month.
The Dow Jones industrial average was up 45 points at 15,260 as of noon Eastern Daylight Time...
WASHINGTON (AP) — More details are emerging about the allegations against an Army sergeant first class at Fort Hood in Texas. It's the second time this month that a member of the armed forces who'd been assigned to help prevent sexual assaults in the military is under investigation for alleged sexual misconduct.
According to a defense official, the sergeant -- who hasn't been named -- is facing allegations involving three women, including that he may have arranged for...
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker John Boehner (BAY'-nur) wants to know, "Who's going to jail over this scandal?"
He's talking about the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative groups for extra scrutiny of their applications for tax-exempt status.
The Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation. And Attorney General Eric Holder will face questions about it this afternoon when he testifies to a House committee....
FARGO, N.D. (AP) — Abortion rights activists on Wednesday filed the first of what they expect will be several legal challenges to laws recently approved in North Dakota that would make that state the most restrictive in the country for women to terminate their pregnancies.
The state's lone abortion clinic, backed by the New York-based Center for Reproductive Rights, said it filed a lawsuit in state court that challenges a law that requires doctors who perform abortions...
CHICAGO (AP) — A scowling Donald Trump raised his voice on the witness stand Wednesday while an attorney grilled him and then rolled his eyes at the "Apprentice" star's answers, prompting a federal judge to scold both men in open court and order them to behave.
The admonition came during Trump's second and final day on the stand at a civil trial where he is accused of making false promises to an investor to lure her into purchasing condos at his glitzy Trump...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — When Liz DeRouen needs any kind of health care services, from diabetes counseling to a dental cleaning, she checks into a government-funded clinic in Northern California's wine country that covers all her medical needs.
Her care and the medical services for her children and grandchildren are paid for as part of the government's treaty obligations to American Indian tribes dating back nearly a century. But under President Barack Obama's health care...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Washington Monument is now covered in scaffolding from top to bottom.
The completion of the scaffolding on Monday is a milestone in the $15 million project to repair the monument, which was damaged in a 2011 earthquake. It has been closed ever since and is not expected to reopen until next year.
The scaffolding around the 555-foot (170-meter) obelisk took about three months to construct.
Perini Management...
The number of dog attacks against letter carriers in select cities last year, according to the Postal Service.
| Los Angeles | 69 |
| San Antonio | 42 |
| Seattle | 42 |
| Chicago | 41 |
| San Francisco | 38 |
| Philadelphia | 34 |
| Detroit | 33 |
| St. Louis | 32 |
| Baltimore | 29... |
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is honoring police officers killed in the line of duty, saying members of law enforcement never let down their guard and that the public they serve should "never let slide our gratitude."
Obama was speaking Wednesday at the National Peace Officers Memorial Service, an annual ceremony to remember those officers who died the previous year.
Among those Obama singled out was Bruce St. Laurent, a 20-year veteran of...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Washington Monument is now covered in scaffolding from top to bottom.
The completion of the scaffolding on Monday is a milestone in the $15 million project to repair the monument, which was damaged in a 2011 earthquake. It's been closed ever since and is not expected to reopen until next year.
The scaffolding around the 555-foot obelisk took about three months to construct.
Perini Management Services Inc. of...
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