Government And Institutions

U.S. stocks moved sharply lower in early trading Monday as investors weighed the implications of an impasse between Greece and its creditors.

Saudi Arabia's stock exchange, valued at $585 billion, has opened up to direct foreign investment for the first time.

Interest rates on short-term Treasury bills were mixed in Monday's auction, with rates on three-month bills declining to their lowest level since late 2011, while rates on six-month bills rose.

How slow can you go? The effort to get trade U.S. trade legislation through Congress, clearing the way for progress on an Asia-Pacific trade accord, is in limbo once again.

The House majority leader says Congress must find a way to pass President Barack Obama's trade agenda.

The state's highest court sided with the Senate in a constitutional dispute with the House over taxes.

Foreign holdings of U.S. Treasury securities fell in April, the first setback since October.

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A federal judge said Monday that the key question before her in lawsuits related to a Maui County ban on the cultivation of genetically modified crops is whether federal and state law trump county law.

An engineer says photos of the pipeline that spilled oil on the Santa Barbara coast show extensive corrosion and provide clues about the rupture's cause.

The state Supreme Court ruled Monday that a medical marijuana patient who was fired after failing a drug test cannot get his job back.

Staunch ally Singapore says U.S. credibility in Asia is on the line amid uncertainty over its participation in a 12-nation free trade pact.

Indiana's utility customer advocate is studying whether Duke Energy should be allowed to pass along costs of repairing its new $3.5 billion coal-gasification plant in southwestern Indiana to consumers.

Landmark trade legislation hangs on life support after Democrats on Capitol Hill derailed it in a brutal defeat for President Barack Obama.

Discount contact lens sellers scored a legal victory in an increasingly bitter pricing war with manufacturers as a federal appeals court cleared the way for a hotly contested law Utah law that could have wide-ranging effects on the $4 billion industry.

A major federal union says the cyber theft of employee information is more damaging than it first appeared, asserting that hackers stole personnel data and Social Security numbers for every federal employee.

In a public rebuke to President Barack Obama, top House Democrat Nancy Pelosi on Friday swung against legislation aimed at making it easier for the president and his successor to negotiate free trade deals.

President Barack Obama is calling on lawmakers to pass a worker assistance package whose defeat has placed his trade agenda in deep jeopardy.

A landmark trade bill that tops President Barack Obama's second-term agenda faces a showdown vote in the House as Democrats mount a last-ditch effort to kill it.

Minnesota's path to a new state budget took another abrupt turn Friday when Democratic senators reworked a funding bill for agricultural and environmental programs instead of passing a plan negotiated between Gov. Mark Dayton and House Republicans.