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Instead of buying Time Warner for a reported $80 billion, Twenty-First Century Fox will buy back $6 billion worth of shares of its own stock.

The economy performed better than expected in the July-September period, after making a 4.6 percent jump in the second quarter of the year.

The polarizing presidential campaign has officially resulted in Tennessee's largest-ever turnout for early voting. More than 1.6 million people cast...

More than 1.6 million American children were homeless at some point in 2010, the nonprofit National Center on Family Homelessness reports today.

Last night at a campaign fundraiser in Harlem's Apollo Theater, he briefly broke into song with a bit of Let's Stay Together. Obama joins a long line of presidents with some musical talent.

The move isn't as severe as the one taken earlier this month by S&P, because it leaves France's rating intact. The credit of Italy and Spain, however, was knocked down two notches.

As flames engulfed a Roxbury, Mass., apartment house early this morning, Judith Lamb held her young grandson out a window. She was shielding him from the fire and smoke. The 6-year-old was OK after being caught by Lt. Glenn McGillivray.

The unseeded Latvian shocked Simona Halep on Saturday, winning her first major in dramatic fashion. Ostapenko overcame dozens of unforced errors on the strength of a number of stunning shots.

The gist of the former Montgomery County district attorney's remarks hinged on the argument that Democrats were responding in a partisan way to the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection.

Photojournalist JAMES NACHTWEY (KNOCKT-way). He was in Somalia in October, and photographs of his visit were the cover story in The New York Times Magazine section on December 6, 1992. Terry talks with him about his trip to Somalia: why he took the pictures he did, how he was received, why he wanted to go, etc. NACHTWEY has been awarded the Robert Capa Gold Medal three times. The award is the highest honor among photographers and is given to those for the "best photographic reporting or interpretation from abroad requiring exceptional courage and enterprise," and it entails a deliberate decision to go in harm's way. NACHTWEY is only the seond photojournalist to be given the award three times. He's been to areas of conflict in Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, Lebanon, the West Bank, Sudan, the Philippines, Northern Ireland and more. A book of NACHTWEY's photographs, "Deeds of War," was published in 1989 by Thames and Hudson.