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In recent weeks, U.S. corporations have announced multibillion-dollar deals in a huge wave of mergers. Economists say that can hurt consumers, workers and savers — but also strengthen the economy.

"There are so many checks and balances on this system. It continues to prove itself on a daily basis," said Karen Osborne, the director of elections in Maricopa Country, Ariz.

The comic initially avoided joking about politics on The Late Show for fear that he would fall into his Colbert Report persona. He says, "Now, I have no qualms about being sharp and satirical."

"There's an obligation for authorities to show restraint" in their handling of people protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline, President Obama said in an interview with the news organization Now This.

Federal Reserve policymakers finished meeting Wednesday, less than a week before Election Day. They left interest rates unchanged but said the case for more expensive loans is strengthening.

"I know her; I trust her," Obama said. The president also refused to join the Clinton campaign and other Democrats' pile-on of FBI Director James Comey.

There are no tourists, and Damascenes have thinner wallets these days. But commerce still flows in the ancient Hamidiyeh bazaar in the Syrian capital, where the war feels very distant.

For the first time ever, four judges up for re-election to the Kansas Supreme Court may get voted off the bench. And that raises a question: Are judges impartial arbiters or accountable to voters?

A federal judge in Winston-Salem Wednesday said the state's process for handling challenges to a voter's registration "sounds like something that was...

With early voting wrapping up on Saturday in North Carolina, both presidential campaigns are targeting the state in a big way. Both Donald Trump and…