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US tax bills will begin to fall from April, President Barack Obama says, hailing a new tax cut as the fastest ever to take effect.

Kobe Bryant scored 11 of his 39 points in overtime and the Los Angeles Lakers beat New Orleans 115-111 Friday night, snapping the Hornets’ NBA-record streak of 13 consecutive overtime victories.

Falling 89 points isn't a dramatic one-day drop, but last time index closed lower was March '03.

Warner Bros./New Line’s redo “Friday the 13th” scared up the best opening ever for a horror movie in grossing an estimated $42.2 million from 3,105 theaters through Sunday.

Some people might want to celebrate Valentine's Day with a kiss for the record books.

Prices of existing U.S. single-family homes dropped a record 12.4 percent in the fourth quarter from a year earlier to the lowest level since 2003, the National Association of Realtors said on Thursday.

Jennifer Figge pressed her toes into the Caribbean sand, exhilarated and exhausted as she touched land this week for the first ...

Canada suffered its worst job losses in more than three decades in January as the recession forced employers to cut a record ...

U.S. employers slashed 598,000 jobs in January, the deepest cut in payrolls in 34 years as the national unemployment rate shot up to 7.6 percent, according to a Labor Department report on Friday that underlined a deepening recession.

One week after the U.S. Army announced record suicide rates among its soldiers last year, the service is worried about a spike in possible suicides in the new year. The Army said 24 soldiers are believed to have committed suicide in January alone -- six times as many as killed themselves in January 2008. "This is terrifying," an Army official said.