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The Senate passes the $17.6-billion package to help employers who hire and keep new workers, and to boost construction projects with the transfer of highway and mass-transit funds.

President Obama is expected to sign into law Thursday the first significant job-creation measure passed by Congress since Democrats vowed this year to attack the nation's high unemployment rate.

The stores offer cheap and legal highs, marketed as bath salts or incense but designed to be smoked, snorted or swallowed. Health officials, lawmakers and parents are alarmed.

Like plenty of hale and hearty young Irishmen, Chris knows just how to unwind after a tough day at the office: He reaches for his bath salts.

Signs of restrained inflation and low interest rates lead to 17-month highs.

Wall Street sent stocks to new 17-month highs Wednesday on fresh signs of subdued inflation and expectations that interest rates would stay low.

The Federal Reserve chairman makes a plea to maintain the central bank's supervisory role in response to a House financial overhaul bill that would greatly diminish the agency's oversight.

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke told lawmakers Wednesday that regulatory failures by the central bank helped trigger the financial crisis, but that doesn't mean they should strip the agency of much or all of its oversight of individual banks.

The young men from Alexandria, Va., are accused of plotting terrorist attacks on Pakistani soil and could face life in prison if convicted. Their lawyer calls it 'an absolutely fake case.'

Five young American Muslims who last fall left their suburban Virginia homes and families with what Pakistani police say was a desire to wage holy war against American forces in Afghanistan were indicted Wednesday on charges of plotting terrorist attacks on Pakistani soil.

House Democrats moved toward the majority they need to pass health care legislation, giving them confidence as they worked out details and girded for a historic showdown.

Steve Levy, a popular Long Island Democrat, is planning to become a Republican and is said to be preparing a run for governor.

In the Senate, Alan K. Simpson, a Republican, treated serious issues with folksy phrases and sometimes stinging humor. He now brings that to the task of reducing the federal debt.

Derrick Caracter was a basketball prodigy in high school who never lived up to his promise. Now, at UTEP, he has found a measure of success.

The trustee of the Judith Rothschild Foundation has carried out the group’s mission of promoting artists. Another beneficiary has been the trustee himself.

Myanmar may be slowly moving away from years of authoritarianism and Soviet-style economic policies that have left most of its people in dire poverty.

As China develops a high-tech economy, American companies like Applied Materials are following factories there by building research labs in China.

A recent drone strike killed a commander who helped plan the killing of C.I.A. staff at an Afghanistan base.

Yahoo has developed a crowdsourcing tool to predict bracket winners, especially surprise winners, in the N.C.A.A. men's basketball tournament.

American-born Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki is calling for jihad against America, claiming "America is evil" in a new audio message obtained exclusively by CNN.

Some argue that severe cuts in public spending to whittle down euro-zone deficits could send unemployment rates surging and bring down governments.

With the sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic Church spreading, a leading religious scholar said Wednesday that a greater female presence in the church hierarchy would have helped prevent the crisis from worsening.

After Jane magazine folded, Brandon Holley, its editor in chief, took her work online.

Health care reform advocates inched closer to victory Wednesday morning as a high-profile liberal Democrat switched his position and announced his intention to vote for a sweeping $875 billion plan under consideration in the House of Representatives.

Mr. Chilton, whose work spanned an eclectic gamut from the soul songs of the Box Tops to the multiple incarnations of his pop band Big Star, has died. He was 59. The cause of death is believed to have been a heart attack.