The president has written to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to lay out shared U.S.-Iranian interests in combating insurgents and to spur progress on nuclear talks.
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac reported sharply lower profits but still earned enough for a combined $6.8 billion payment to the U.S. Treasury, as the mortgage-finance companies also cited the potential for a thaw in home-loan access.
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The University of California’s governing body said on Thursday that it is considering a multiyear tuition increase across its 10 campuses, raising prices by up to 5% a year for the next five years.
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The money-laundering probe into one of Vladimir Putin’s closest allies puts a spotlight on the Brooklyn U.S. Attorney’s office, which has a history of handling high-profile, international investigations.
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Workers are boarding up windows in Ferguson, Mo., and police are re-stocking tear gas as they prepare for civil unrest that could follow a grand jury decision on whether to indict a police officer in the shooting death of an unarmed 18-year-old.
The U.S. military launched a barrage of airstrikes in Syria in an effort to kill a French bomb maker and to destroy other targets American officials linked to al Qaeda-affiliated rebels.
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Gov. Chris Christie faces a host of economic and political challenges in New Jersey as he returns to Trenton from months of national campaigning and weighs a 2016 presidential run.
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The co-pilot of the Virgin Galactic rocket ship that crashed during a test flight last week unlocked movable tail surfaces earlier in the flight than normal without being instructed to do so by the craft’s commander.
Bank of America is in advanced talks with U.S. regulators to settle an investigation into whether the bank manipulated foreign-exchange rates, as negotiations expand throughout the banking industry.
Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D., Md.) predicted Republicans would use the budget “reconciliation” process to try to roll back the health-care law.
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The city of Allen Park, Mich., and two of its former officials settled fraud charges related to the sale of a $31 million municipal bond issue to raise funds for a movie-studio project, according to the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Some of the U.S.'s closest European allies are threatening to follow Sweden and unilaterally recognize a Palestinian state if steps aren't quickly taken to revive the Middle East peace process.
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The main trade group representing for-profit colleges sued the Obama administration Thursday to block new rules that threaten to imperil thousands of career-training programs across the U.S.
The latest snapshot of the labor market, to be released Friday morning, is expected to show U.S. employers added jobs at a healthy clip last month despite emerging worries about the global economy.
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Five years after university endowments plummeted along with the rest of the global economy, many schools in the New York area boast large piles of cash and investments. Yale leads the pack with $24 billion.
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The last of the 177 people in Texas at risk of contracting Ebola from Thomas Eric Duncan or two nurses who had treated him is set to clear monitoring for the disease on Friday.
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The House speaker and the president held a year of confidential talks on immigration that ended in failure this summer.
A federal appeals court in Cincinnati upheld bans on same-sex marriage in four states Thursday, creating a conflict in the courts that puts renewed pressure on the Supreme Court to decide whether gay couples have a constitutional right to wed.
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If the magnitude of the Republican wave in Tuesday’s election was a surprise to many people, it was in part because it was a surprise to the people paid to predict it—the pollsters.
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Billionaire activist Tom Steyer’s drive to make climate change a winning issue in this year’s midterm election fell short as several Democratic candidates he supported lost amid the Republican sweep in Congress and state races.
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Kevin Counihan knows he has a lot at stake this month. As chief executive of HealthCare.gov, he is responsible for making sure the site doesn’t falter during the second year of insurance sign-ups under the Affordable Care Act.
Q&A on the agenda offered by House Speaker John Boehner (R., Ohio) and soon-to-be Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.).
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S. Donald Stookey, whose best-known invention, CorningWare, has been used in millions of kitchens since the 1950s, has died at 99.
In an era where Google and other online maps rule, a passionate cadre of cartographers are struggling to keep the paper map from going the way of the handwritten letter.
Momentum is growing to narrow a gap between laws that oversee sports agents and financial advisers who approach college athletes.
Filmmaking duo the Farrelly Brothers on their new sequel to “Dumb and Dumber,” the key to their crude humor and why they consider their films therapeutic.
Takashi Murakami, known for smiling, anime-like characters, is bringing a newer, dark style to New York’s Gagosian Gallery.
The Hess toy truck, sold for decades at the company’s gas stations, wants a spot in the Toy Hall of Fame. But it faces stiff competition from Rubik’s Cube and little green Army men, among others.
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