Lifestyle and Budget

The holiday shopping season is always a make-or-break period for struggling retailers.

The crowds of bargain shoppers rushing through store doors the day after Thanksgiving are thinning out.

Before some people opened their eyes, Black Friday was already well underway.

An estimated 600,000 Nevada shoppers hit stores on Black Friday while others used the day to make a point on behalf of the retail workers who stocked the shelves and rang up the purchases.

Stores are welcoming a second wave of shoppers in what has become a two-day kickoff to the holiday shopping season.

Turkey, stuffing and a helium-filled Thomas the Tank Engine are on the menu as friends and families gather across the United States to celebrate Thanksgiving.

Falling gas prices.

Wal-Mart's chief merchandising officer for its namesake U.S. division has left as the discounter makes leadership changes to perk up sales only days before the start of crucial holiday shopping season.

Thanksgiving could be the best day to shop all year.

Thanksgiving could be the best day to shop all year.

That's not mistletoe.

Whether women pay more than men for comparable products and services depends on what they're buying — and where they're buying it.

The ex-wife of energy giant Continental Resources Inc. CEO Harold Hamm plans to appeal a judge's ruling that awarded her nearly $1 billion in a divorce settlement.

Macy's cut its profit outlook after a sales shortfall in its latest quarter, suggesting that shoppers can expect another discount-laden holiday shopping season.

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A team of doctors rushed to central India on Wednesday after at least 12 women died and dozens of others fell ill following sterilization surgeries in a free, nationwide program aimed at limiting births in the world's second-most populous nation, officials said.

Target wants to extend Black Friday well before Thanksgiving.

A judge in Oklahoma is ordering the chairman and CEO of energy giant Continental Resources Inc. to pay his wife nearly $1 billion as part of a divorce settlement.

Inspired by that colorful homemade gingerbread on Instagram or the hand-painted coasters on Pinterest, but worried about your skills? Don't fret.

A government watchdog agency says Medicare's prescription drug program kept paying for costly medications -- even after patients were dead.