WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The majority of Americans favor giving millions of illegal immigrants a way to earn citizenship, according to a survey released on Thursday, highlighting public support for efforts in Congress to reform immigration law. In the Public Religion Research Institute poll, 63...
TOPEKA, Kansas (Reuters) - Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum swept the Kansas caucuses on Saturday with 51 percent of the vote, giving him a boost going into crucial primary votes in the South next week. The conservative former senator from Pennsylvania was well ahead of former...
Mitt Romney edged out Rick Santorum to win the Ohio Republican primary by a percentage point in the most-watched state of the 10 that voted on Super Tuesday.
Romney, a former Massachusetts governor, trailed Santorum, a former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania, for most of the night, but came from...
AP - Why do kids believe a chubby guy in a flying sleigh can deliver joy across America? Because their parents do. A whopping 84 percent of grown-ups were once children who trusted in Santa's magic, and lots cling to it still.
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AP - More than one-third of the country supports the Wall Street protests, and even more — 58 percent — say they are furious about America's politics.
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Fear returned to Wall Street on Wednesday, sending the S&P 500 to another 4 percent decline, triggered by worries that Europe's debt crisis could engulf French banks and spill onto the U.S. financial sector.
Trading was once again marked by sharp moves on heavy volume. For a fifth straight day...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of Americans claiming new unemployment benefits was steady last week and heavy discounting lifted sales at retailers in July, hopeful signs for the sputtering economy.
Initial claims for state jobless benefits edged down 1,000 to 400,000, the Labor Department...
While 69 percent of organizations have employees using personal devices to connect to their corporate network, more than one-fifth, or 21 percent, currently have no policy in place to govern the use of personal mobile devices on their network. These new figures, released recently from...
OTTAWA (Reuters) - The Canadian economy unexpectedly shrank in May as bad weather, a strong Canadian dollar and weak U.S. demand took a toll, cutting expectations for an autumn interest rate hike by the Bank of Canada.
Canada's gross domestic product - a measure of all goods and services...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks advanced for a fourth straight day on Thursday in an end-of-quarter rally that was boosted by a surprisingly strong economic report covering the U.S. Midwest.
Major indexes rose, including the benchmark S&P 500, which climbed above its 50-day moving average at...
NEW YORK – Stocks extended losses for the sixth straight day on Wednesday as investors worried that a slowing economy could deepen the market's retreat.
The latest evidence of a slowdown came in the Federal Reserve's Beige Book, which gives an anecdotal report on the economy. It reinforced Fed...
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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Stocks extended losses on Monday as bank stocks fell on fears the economy was slowing and Apple (AAPL.O) lost ground after unveiling a music-streaming service during a conference.
The Dow Jones industrial average (.DJI) dropped 74.81 points, or 0.62 percent, to...
LOS ANGELES, -- U.S. workers and the unemployed are finding out the labor market belongs to employers these days, with wages falling, data shows.
With 13.7 million U.S. workers listed as unemployed, there is little pressure on employers to raise wages. "They know so many people want it...
OTTAWA, -- The average Canadian non-farm employee weekly pay rose marginally on a monthly basis to $876.53 in March, Statistics Canada reported from Ottawa Thursday.
The monthly increase was 0.5 percent while on a year-over basis, it was up 4.1 percent, the agency said.
"Average weekly hours...
Unexpectedly weak consumer spending hobbled the economy in the first quarter and fresh signs of a slowdown in the labor market pointed to an uphill struggle for the recovery.
The economy grew at an annual 1.8 percent rate in the first three months of this year, the Commerce Department said on...
U.S. stocks rose for a second day on Thursday in a choppy session, with technology and consumer discretionary stocks leading the way after upbeat earnings.
Sellers crowded around the S&P 500's 50-day moving average for a third day. The level, now just above 1,328, is gaining strength as...
U.S. stocks edged higher on Thursday, with LinkedIn one of the few standouts in an otherwise lackluster session as its shares doubled in their trading debut.
The S&P 500 ran into resistance after its recent bounce, and many investors have resigned themselves to a patch of economic weakness over...
Housing starts and building permits fell in April and factory output slumped as an automobile parts shortage crimped production, showing the economy got off to a weak start in the second quarter.
Corporate results from Home Depot Inc added further evidence of a decline in housing after the No...
WASHINGTON, -- Most U.S. adults admit they don't know Memorial Day is to honor those who died fighting the nation's wars, a survey indicates.
A survey, commissioned by The National WWII Museum in Washington, indicates 46 percent say they knew something about the holiday, 31 percent say they knew...