Matthew Sollars

Employers cut 20,000 jobs last month, the best performance in the labor market since 2008.

Angela Gheorghiu has announced that she's pulling out of the final two performances of "Carmen" at the Met this spring.

NY Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has sued Bank of America and former CEO Ken Lewis for hiding huge losses at Merrill Lynch in 2008.

Worries over foreign debts and jobs at home fueled a big sell-off on Wall Street on Thursday. 

A federal jury in Manhattan has found American-trained Pakistani scientist Aafia Siddiqui guilty of attempted murder.

An Iraqi court has overturned a provision banning people with suspected ties to Saddam Hussein's old Baath Party from running for office.

Governor Paterson has vetoed a ethic reform package, after failing to reach a compromise with Assembly and Senate leaders. 

Top Pentagon officials told a Senate panel today that they will study ways to allow gays to serve openly in the military.

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates says he's fired the general in charge of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program.

A new report shows the U.S. economy grew by an annualised rate of 5.7% between October and December, the fastest growth in six years.

President Barack Obama met with House Republicans for an extended question-and-answer session on Friday, in a bold attempt to overcome partisan gridlock.

The Defense Department will present a "way forward" to let gays serve in the military.

Ending weeks of sometimes rancorous debate, the Senate approved a second term as Federal Reserve Chairman for Ben Bernanke.

J.D. Salinger, the author whose ground-breaking novel, "The Catcher in the Rye," is perhaps the most famous American literary work of the 20th Century, has died.

President Barack Obama continued to champion Ben Bernanke as the person to help fix the economy as the chairman of the Federal Reserve.

Fresh moments of hope emerged in Haiti on Friday, as two survivors were pulled from the rubble 10 days after an earthquake ravaged the country.

A Presidential task force says 47 detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp should be held indefinitely, without standing trial.

Gov. David Paterson says despite growing calls for him to not seek a full term he’s staying in the race.