The move would end a ban on drilling in environmentally sensitive areas along the coasts of Alaska and Virginia.

The government dropped its plans to expand Medicare coverage for the use of stents to prop open neck arteries to prevent strokes.

New camcorders from Sony and JVC give home movies the same kind of clarity as Hollywood releases.

If you are going to commit fraud, you may need a good lawyer. In some cases, you have to have a lawyer to pull off the fraud at all.

Born during the dot-com boom, beliefnet is a company that by all rights should have died with all the other failed ventures when the bubble burst.

Hundreds of new businesses around the country demonstrate an emerging convergence of for-profit money-making and nonprofit mission.

The information site owned by The New York Times Company will announce that it has bought ConsumerSearch.com for $33 million.

Chevron is preparing to acknowledge that it should have known oil kickbacks were being paid to Saddam Hussein.

Two drug companies are paying doctors millions to prescribe anemia drugs, which regulators now say may be unsafe.

Toyota reported another year of record profit but signaled a slowdown in the current year because of weakness in North America and increased spending.

The Bush administration reached agreement with Democrats to attach environmental and worker protections in several pending trade accords.

The weak retail spending and a big rise in gasoline prices were seen as delivering a double whammy to the economy.

Russia and Turkmenistan are to build a new gas pipeline around the Caspian Sea, in a setback for EU hopes.

Testimony and notes from the vice president of human resources at the World Bank were ?devastating? to Paul D. Wolfowitz?s case, according to a bank official.

NBC?s fall schedule plays it safe by trying to learn from recent mistakes and build on recent strengths.

Alan Greenspan, the former Federal Reserve chairman, has signed a consulting deal with Pimco, the giant bond management firm.

The McKinsey Global Institute said markets alone are unlikely to ensure the best product choices.

With Eliot Spitzer now in the governor?s mansion, is there another state regulator trying to take up his badge?

Two average earners in Michigan have found that their economic life depends on how well they shuffle their debt.

Northwest Airlines says it will emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection at the end of this month.

The wireless phone company agreed to be sold to a consortium of private equity firms for $27.5 billion.

Health policy experts said that Michael Moore?s indictment of U.S. health care taps into widespread public concern about the system.

The hedge fund stars may gleam, but the average fund did worse last year, after fees, than the S.& P.

DETROIT, May 23 (AP) ? The General Motors Corporation has put up a 49 percent stake in its former financial arm as collateral for a $4.1 billion revolving line of credit, the company said late Wednesday.

The S.E.C. has begun an inquiry into whether two senior executives secretly tried to put the company into play.

Thousands of consumers are lining up to buy small cars, but they are not giving up their S.U.V.?s and pickups.

A contact lens solution manufacturer withdrew its product after it was linked to a rare but potentially blinding eye infection.

Reuters - Private equity group CVC pulled out of a consortium eyeing Australia's Coles Group Ltd. , but analysts said the group still had plenty of financial firepower to pursue its bid.

Tishman Speyer and Lehman Brothers are near a deal to buy Archstone-Smith Trust for more than $20 billion.

A confidential report concludes that the chain?s reputation for discounts has worked against its efforts to move upscale.

Many experienced comedians, talent agents and financiers see the Web as a way to showcase talent while trying to turn a profit.