U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday vetoed a measure by Republicans in Congress that would have blocked a government labor agency's rules designed to speed up the time it takes to unionize workers. The rules would shorten the period between a union filing a petition to represent workers and an election, from the current median […]

Russia and Iran's foreign ministers claimed in the early hours of Wednesday a breakthrough in talks on a framework deal curtailing Tehran's nuclear programme, but the US said not all issues had been agreed. "One can say with relative certainty that we at the minister level have reached an agreement in principle on all key […]

Mike Pence said Tuesday that he wants legislation on his desk by the end of the week to clarify that a new religious-freedom law does not allow discrimination.

The disaster at budget airline Germanwings which killed 150 people will not harm the image of low-cost air travel in Europe, easyJet (EZJ.L) chief executive Carolyn McCall said on Tuesday. Germanwings, founded in 2002 as a budget carrier, was acquired by full-service airline Lufthansa (LHAG.DE) in 2009, and the parent company has expanded it into […]

Coal prices have dropped 33% over the past four years to levels that have made most mining companies across the Appalachia mountain region unprofitable.

“This is a very dangerous development,” with the tail wagging the dog, former Fed Gov. Kevin Warsh tells CNBC.

More than 13,000 Detroit-area property owners have entered into payment plans hoping to avoid losing their homes to tax foreclosure, but another 16,000 living in their homes have yet to take advantage …

Israel er ikke selv medlem av ICC, og har dermed heller ingen plikt til å samarbeide med domstolen. Likevel protesterte landet høylytt da Palestina sendte sin søknad om medlemskap. I januar startet ICCs sjefanklager Fatou Bensouda innledende …

Bélgica aprovechó el buen momento de Marouane Fellaini, autor del gol de la victoria por 0-1 ante Israel, para sumar una victoria complicada por la expulsión de Vincent Kompany a falta de media hora para el final con la que alcanzó la primera plaza del …

Dabei geht es um den Gaza-Krieg im vergangenen Sommer, aber auch um die Folgen der seit 1967 andauernden Besiedlung des besetzten Westjordanlands durch Israel. Ermittlungen könnten sich nun aber auch gegen extremistische Palästinenser richten, …