AmEx's growth depends mostly on affluent customers who have been consistent with their spending despite the global recession. Bank of America, the second largest U.S. bank, will likely report a third-quarter loss after it takes a $5.3 billion charge to …

SAN FRANCISCO — Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Tuesday the nation needs to close a "word gap" between low-income children and their more affluent peers. Speaking at a tech conference in San Francisco, Clinton said low-income …

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Tuesday the nation needs to close a "word gap" between low-income children and their more affluent peers. Speaking at a tech conference in San Francisco, Clinton said …

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NASHVILLE — Tennesseans are getting ready to vote on a proposed constitutional amendment that would bar lawmakers from ever imposing a state income tax. Early voting for the Nov. 4 election starts Wednesday, but no matter what voters decide, …

In late May, Iraqi security forces arrested seven members of militant group Islamic State in Mosul and learned the group planned an offensive on the city in early June. Gharawi, the operational commander of Nineveh province, of which Mosul is the …

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – A suicide car bomb killed at least 18 people and wounded 51 others at a checkpoint entrance to the Shi'ite neighbourhood of Kadhimiya in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, a police official and a medical official said. The blast happened in …

“This is beautiful,” said pastor Chris Beard, looking over pews filled with African-American, white and Asian worshipers in a church service that opened with a prayer for two dozen Ethiopian babies and closed with a benediction in Korean. “To be one …

Students packed a Northwestern University auditorium Monday night to hear Nicholas Kristof encourage them to be somewhere else. "A crucial part of education is to get out of the classroom and into an environment that's really different," said the …