WASHINGTON -- The Trump administration and House Democrats are on the verge of announcing a handshake deal on the U.S.-Mexico-Canada free trade agreement, according to people familiar with the negotiations, paving the way for approval of the deal as early as this month while Democrats gear up for an impeachment vote.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi is ...Read more

Yes, 2019 is almost over, but you still have some time to save on your tax bill for the year. Here are some year-end tips that you may want to consider.

First, some potential good news: There's chatter that the $10,000 cap on property tax deductions may be raised by Congress. The cap was written into the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. More on ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- The White House saw a clever way to save Christmas for strapped consumers.

Early this past summer, as President Donald Trump was considering a fresh round of tariffs on China, his trade advisers discussed exempting televisions from a list of products likely to be hit next, because of the effect the penalty could have on holiday ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Paul A. Volcker, the powerful Federal Reserve chairman whose grit and determination helped break the back of inflation in the early 1980s and put the American economy on a path to extended growth, has died. He was 92.

Volcker's career in economics and public service spanned seven decades and several administrations. In the early ...Read more

Xerox on Monday began taking its case to acquire HP directly to the PC and printing technology leader's stock owners by saying their share of the combined company could be worth more than 50% more than the current value of their HP stock.

In a presentation addressed to HP shareholders and made public Monday morning, Xerox said it is prepared to...Read more

Investigative reporter Michele Gillen spent her career rooting out injustice.

One of South Florida's most recognizable TV personalities, Gillen worked at CBS-owned WFOR-TV Channel 4 for two decades -- earning 25 prestigious regional Emmy Awards. She exposed inhumane treatment of mentally ill inmates in the Miami-Dade jail, leading to reforms. ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- The post-Thanksgiving weekend is usually a box-office dead zone, which is why studios don't often roll out major wide releases in this corridor. Even among holdovers, it's common for movies to drop more than 40% from the previous weekend, and Disney's mega-hit "Frozen 2" was not immune, dropping 60%.

Still, the animated film ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS -- Like many blind or visually impaired people, Steve Decker does a lot of online shopping with the help of tools that read text out loud to him.

But like many shoppers, regardless of ability, he still likes to come to stores in person to gauge the freshness of produce or to feel the texture of a sweater. To do so, he often has to ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Uber's stock market value fell by as much as $1.5 billion Friday as investors turned against the ride-hailing giant after it said more than 3,000 sexual assaults took place during its rides in 2018.

At one point Friday, Uber's shares had fallen by almost 3%, to $27.81, to give the company a market capitalization of $47.4 ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- The 2010s are ending with unexpected strength in the U.S. job market, but there's reason to doubt there will be another roaring '20s.

November's 266,000 payroll gain, the biggest since January, exceeded forecasts and job growth in the prior two months was revised higher -- calming concern about a slowdown in the economy or even ...Read more

Stop, take a deep breath and wait for a warning from the Internal Revenue Service before you pull out that plastic to jump on yet another holiday deal on a TV, toys or a smartphone.

Will you really have all the money you need by January or February to cover all those holiday bills? Not necessarily, if you're banking on a big income tax refund ...Read more

CHICAGO -- The Chicago Transit Authority is asking a Chinese manufacturer for more details about its supply chain after a news report that children are being used to mine materials in Africa that might be used in "L" car production.

The report said that children as young as 4 from poor families in Madagascar are mining for mica, which is a type...Read more