Government And Institutions

Global stock markets are steady on Thursday as the decline in China's currency slowed and the country's central bank eased fears of more steep drops.

Social Security turns 80 on Friday, and the massive retirement and disability program is showing its age.

Shares of Kohl's sank 10 percent Thursday after the department store operator said state sales tax holidays hurt its sales in the second quarter and said back-to-school sales got off to a slow start.

Maine Gov. Paul LePage's administration missed its chance to challenge the federal government's decision to strip the Riverview Psychiatric Recovery Center of its federal certification, a judge ruled Tuesday.

Arizona must refund millions of dollars it collected from a rental car tax that funds stadium projects and tourism efforts in Maricopa County after the tax was earlier declared unconstitutional, a judge ruled.

German prosecutors have filed tax evasion charges against eight current and former Deutsche Bank employees over their alleged participation in a value-added tax fraud scheme involving a chain of transactions with carbon dioxide emissions certificates.

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Federal regulators say brokerage firm Edward Jones has agreed to pay more than $20 million to settle claims that it overcharged customers in new municipal bond sales.

Higher state income taxes have kicked in for Connecticut's wealthiest residents, with a top lawmaker confident the new rates will generate nearly $300 million in expected revenue.

Citizens Bank has been ordered to pay $34.5 million in refunds and penalties for shortchanging customers on their full deposits.

The Labor Department reports on the number of people who applied for unemployment benefits last week at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Thursday.

Another drop in China's currency sent global stocks lower on Wednesday as the move raised worries about weakness in the world's second-largest economy.

A bipartisan group of U.S. representatives wants the Treasury Department to return about $300,000 the IRS seized from a western Maryland dairy farm under a law aimed at curtailing money laundering.

The U.S. government ran a much larger budget deficit in July than a year ago.

Gov. Chris Christie has not decided whether to sign legislation to help economically struggling Atlantic City, yet local officials have already begun arguing over potential tax proceeds contained in the measure.

New York City hospitals will no longer allow the filming of reality TV in their wards without prior written consent.

Few welfare recipients in Maine have been called in for drug screenings so far under new rules touted by Republican Gov. Paul LePage.

Citizens Bank is returning $14 million to individual and business customers in an agreement with federal regulators for failing to credit customers the full amounts of their deposits.

U.S. stocks opened lower on Tuesday, led by declines in energy and materials stocks as commodities prices dropped.

A longtime manager of a railroad responsible for some fiery oil train crashes in North Dakota has been hired as an inspector for the state's new rail safety program.