Lifestyle and Budget

The whirling hum of a dialysis machine could have been the soundtrack to the rest of Zahra Hajikarimi's life but for an unusual program in Iran that allows people to buy a kidney from a living donor.

The world's key central banks have worked themselves into contortions to try to rev up economic growth, raise inflation and coax consumers and businesses to borrow and spend more.

'Second Amendment Weekend' will give gun buyers a reprieve from sales taxes in two states.

Florida Governor Rick Scott said Wednesday it is safe to travel to the state despite Florida health officials reporting 15 new travel-related Zika cases statewide.

America has a debt problem, but it's not what you think.

Former FEMA Director Michael Brown, who headed the agency when Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast in 2005, weighed in on the flooding in Louisiana, the political fallout and the government’s handling of the recovery process.

Ford Motor Co said on Wednesday it was recalling about 91,000 vehicles in North America to replace faulty fuel-pump parts that could potentially cause a car to stall without warning.

Earlier in the summer, Costco replaced their AmEx credit cards with Visa cards. Discover the latest concern for the retailer's credit cardholders.

Tesla has turned the Model S into the quickest production car on the market, thanks to a 100 kWh battery.

"Ask Brianna" from NerdWallet is a Q&A column for 20-somethings, or anyone else starting out.

Quarterly earnings surged 58%, and the luxury homebuilder says rising home values are encouraging Americans to move.

Jennifer Lawrence is the world's highest-paid actress in 2016 for the second year in a row, followed by Melissa McCarthy, who notched a big gain to claim the runner-up spot, Forbes magazine reported on Tuesday.

The Social Security program pays more in benefits than it collects in revenue. How big is the Social Security shortfall?

The Commerce Department reports on July sales of new homes Tuesday at 10 a.m. Eastern.

Discounts are still being offered just not as many.

California's state Senate on Monday revived a bill that would make the state the first in the United States to give farmworkers the same overtime pay as people who work in other industries, a last-ditch effort to reverse a nearly 80-year-old practice of exempting field hands from wage rules.

The Latest on Louisiana flooding (all times local): 4:30 p.m.