NEW YORK (AP) — Richard Cordray, the aggressive first director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, said Wednesday he will leave the agency by the end of the month. Corday was a holdover from the Obama administration,...
Read MorePORTAGE, Ind. (AP) — Environmentalists are questioning why the public wasn’t notified about an October chemical spill into a Lake Michigan tributary that U.S. Steel asked Indiana regulators to keep confidential. Documents...
Read MoreU.S. stocks declined in morning trading Wednesday as investors weighed a batch of economic data and company earnings. The slide was broad, with technology stocks and consumer-focused companies accounting for the largest losses....
Read MoreNEW YORK (AP) — Many Americans have a blind spot when it comes to retirement planning: long-term care costs. Even though the majority of Americans will at some point need long-term care, few are planning for it. Many...
Read MoreNEW YORK (AP) — The latest on developments in financial markets (All times local): 9:35 a.m. Stocks are opening lower on Wall Street, with the largest losses going to technology companies and banks. Apple was off 1.4 percent in...
Read MoreWASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. retail sales rose at a solid pace last month, as bullish consumers bought more cars, furniture and clothes. Retail sales increased 0.2 percent in October, the Commerce Department said Wednesday, after a...
Read MoreMOSCOW (AP) — A 3-year-old girl was the only survivor of a plane crash in far eastern Russia, which killed six people Wednesday, officials said. An L-410 twin-engine turboprop crashed while trying to land at a small airport near...
Read MoreWASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama health care law’s requirement that Americans get insurance coverage is now pinned as a target of Republican lawmakers, as they look to end the individual mandate to help pay for deep cuts in...
Read MoreTOKYO (AP) — Shares fell in Asia on Wednesday, with Japan’s Nikkei 225 index slumping 1.6 percent after a lackluster GDP report for July-September. The region’s markets tracked modest losses overnight on Wall Street,...
Read MoreSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Pacific Gas and Electric Co. is being sued for wildfires that killed more than 40 people and destroyed more than 8,000 Northern California homes last month. Lawsuits filed Tuesday in San Francisco Superior...
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