The Federal Communications Commission asked a Federal appeals court to reconsider a recent decision that struck down its longstanding indecency policy.

Stocks slipped Thursday, erasing earlier gains as worries about a sputtering economy overshadowed a better-than-expected report on jobless claims.

The Association of Flight Attendants is suing Delta Air Lines for allegedly breaching the terms of a bargaining agreement with over 7,000 former Northwest Airlines flight attendants.

Hewlett-Packard once again raised its offer for storage company 3PAR on Thursday, outbidding Dell's revised deal made earlier in the day.

A new law requiring oil companies to disclose all payments made to governments has sparked a sharp debate, with Big Oil saying it will put it at a big competitive disadvantage.

Howard Gleckman is a resident fellow at the Urban Institute and editor of TaxVox, the blog of the nonpartisan research organization Tax Policy Center. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the writer.

Oil plummeted to $70 a barrel earlier this week after a raft of negative economic reports, but prices were drifting higher by Thursday as investors got accustomed to bad news.

Federal aviation regulators slapped American Airlines on Thursday with the largest fine in history, charging that the carrier made thousands of unsafe flights.

Toyota Motor Corp. said it was recalling 1.33 million Corolla and Corolla Matrix vehicles on Thursday, citing problems in engines' electronic control units that have allegedly led to three accidents.

The economy is losing momentum. You know it. I know it. Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke knows it.

Last week, eight senators rallied a call to scrutinize one of China's biggest telecommunications equipment manufacturers, Huawei Technologies. Company executives are bidding to sell equipment to Sprint Nextel in the United States, but in an Aug. 18 letter to top Obama administration officials, senators asked for a deeper look into the deal in the name of national security.

Fewer mortgage borrowers are delinquent on their loan payments, according to the latest data from the Mortgage Bankers Association.

Yikes! There's a stranger in my house!

Johnson and Johnson unit DePuy Orthopaedics, already in hot water with government regulators, issued a global recall Thursday of two hip aid systems after finding that more people than expected suffered pain which required additional surgery.

The American home is shrinking. Toll the bell for the McMansion.

Mike McCue has spent a lifetime -- he skipped college and went to work for IBM straight out of high school -- making technology do things the world might not be ready to embrace. In 1989, years before the web took off, he founded Paper Software, which evolved into a browser company. It was acquired by Netscape. In 1999 he launched TellMe, a seemingly futuristic voice-recognition service that lets consumers verbally ask a question (instead of say, typing in a search query) of their smartphone. The service then searches a huge database and delivers the answers in the form of a text message or audio reply. McCue's system, a pioneering combination of supercomputing and the telephone, became the standard for "voice browsers." He sold that company to Microsoft in 2007 for an estimated $800 million.

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Ford Motor Co. announced on Thursday that it will ramp up its presence in the fast-growing Asian and African markets.

The number of first-time filers for unemployment insurance fell more than expected last week, according to a weekly government report released Thursday.