Eric Linton

Five expert snowboarders are dead in the state's deadliest avalanche in more than 50 years.

The visitor center at Independence Hall in Philadelphia was briefly closed Sunday in a bomb scare amid tension after the Boston Marathon bombings.

Police are searching for suspects after two shot at a “4/20” marijuana celebration in Denver.

The Senate is to vote Wednesday on the Manchin-Toomey background check plan, but the votes for passage are lacking.

Obama sending Republican ex-secretaries of state but no current leaders in "snub," some say.

Two more people have died of H7N9 avian flu in Shanghai, and the total number of cases in China has hit 57.

The U.S. and Japan Sunday offered new talks with North Korea -- if it honors previous agreements.

Trade with the U.S. in the first quarter rose by 10.8% from a year earlier, to $118.2 billion.

General Electric, headed by Jeffrey Immelt, chief of the White House jobs council, is cutting the positions at a locomotive plant.

Senators said they were near a deal on background checks, while Reid is planning a showdown vote for Thursday.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at its second all-time high in a week Tuesday, led by materials and energy stocks.

China's annual consumer inflation eased markedly to 2.1 percent in March from February's 3.2 percent while producer price deflation deepened.

Japan deployed missile-defense systems at three sites around Tokyo early Tuesday in case of a possible missile launch by North Korea.

North Korean laborers did not show up for work Tuesday at the joint factory complex of Kaesong on the border, carrying out Pyongyang's threat.

J.C. Penney has axed CEO Ron Johnson and is bringing back his predecessor Myron (Mike) Ullman.

IMF chief Christine Lagarde on Sunday welcomed the Bank of Japan’s aggressive easing program as a helpful step to support global growth.

An Illinois woman killed in Afghanistan Saturday is the first U.S. diplomat to die in the line of duty since Benghazi.

South Korea says the North may be readying another missile test within days, as Xi Jinping chides his ally.

North Korea has singled out bases in Guam, a U.S. territory in the Pacific, and Hawaii among its potential targets.

North Korea Wednesday closed access a joint factory zone on the DMZ that earns it $2 billion a year in trade.

Wells Fargo has emerged from the collapse of the U.S. housing bubble as the nation’s dominant mortgage lender, grabbing an unprecedented 28.8 percent share

The United States has gained 387,000 managers but lost almost 2 million clerical jobs since 2007, as technology squeezes out middle-class jobs.

The U.S. sent a destroyer to Korea's coast and South Korea's president vowed to strike back quickly against any attack from the North.

European antitrust authorities are preparing a case against some of the world's largest banks, alleging collusion in the credit derivatives market.

As Boeing tries to get its 787 back in the air, it faces a temporary ban on some of the long-distance journeys the jet was built to fly.

Anthony Lewis, the former New York Times Supreme Court reporter and columnist whose work won two Pulitzer Prizes, died Monday at 85.

Sen. Tim Johnson, D-S.D., is expected to announce Tuesday that he will not seek re-election next year.

Self-exiled Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky, whose body was found in his bathroom, died by hanging, British police said Monday.

Rebels in the Central African Republic have entered the capital Bangui, witnesses say.