NEW YORK (AP) - Men's Wearhouse has dismissed its founder and executive chairman George Zimmer. In a terse release issued Wednesday, the company didn't give a reason for the abrupt firing of Zimmer, who built Men's Wearhouse from one small ...

NEW YORK--Stocks edged lower in early trading, as investors looked ahead to the afternoon's Federal Reserve policy announcement.

Sprint and Dish, however, are poised for one final head-to-head battle as a realignment of the wireless industry takes hold. After the market close on Tuesday, Dish Network said it terminated due diligence efforts on a prospective takeover of Sprint, citing ...

FedEx said on Wednesday it was cutting its capacity between the United States and Asia, sending its shares lower on concerns about future growth, even as the world's biggest air-freight company posted a stronger-than-expected profit.

The cost of living in the US rose slightly in May as higher energy costs were offset by the first drop in food prices in almost four years, signalling inflation remains at bay.

The nation's five biggest mortgage lenders have likely already satisfied their financial obligations under last year's $25 billion settlement over mortgage abuses, helping hundreds of thousands of families keep their homes.

In a new documentary, former government investigators who looked into the mysterious crash of TWA Flight 800, which killed 230, are breaking their silence to claim that the explosion that brought down the plane in 1996 was likely no accident, and that the ...

Houston's Astrodome stadium, New York's old Pan Am Worldport Terminal at Kennedy Airport and Montana's one-room schoolhouses are joining a list of the nation's most endangered historic places.

Alcatel-Lucent SA (ALU) will sell 1 billion euros ($1.3 billion) of assets and slash costs by another 1 billion euros in a bid by Chief Michel Combes to turn the company around -- something his predecessors tried, and failed, to do for seven years.

The former head of Italian aerospace and defense giant Finmeccanica, accused by prosecutors of making bribery part of the company culture, went on trial today for his alleged role in the payment of bribes to secure a crucial 560 million euro (USD 670 ...