Ken Stanford

The stock market closed broadly higher Tuesday as investors await the results of a key meeting by the Federal Reserve.

The agency responsible for safety on the nation's roads was years late in detecting a deadly problem with General Motors cars and lacks the expertise to oversee increasingly complex vehicles, congressional Republicans charged in a report Tuesday.

The poverty rate in the United States has dropped for the first time since 2006, bringing a bit of encouraging news about the nation's economy as President Barack Obama and Congress gear up for midterm elections.

American ground troops may be needed to battle Islamic State forces in the Middle East if President Barack Obama's current strategy fails, the nation's top military officer said Tuesday as Congress began debating Obama's plan to expand airstrikes and train Syrian rebels.

Calling the Ebola outbreak in West Africa a potential threat to global security, President Barack Obama is ordering 3,000 U.S. military personnel to the stricken region amid worries that the financial as well as human cost of the outbreak is rapidly spiraling out of control.

Idaho Republican congressman Raul Labrador is teaming up with a Democratic lawmaker from Georgia on a bill designed to curb police militarization among state and local law enforcement agencies.

The Georgia Department of Education (GDOE) Tuesday released its 2014 Reward Schools, designated as part of the state

Optimism among chief executives at the largest U.S. comp