Meagan Clark

The federal deficit peaked at $1.4 trillion in 2009.

UPS is looking to cut costs as online shopping deliveries grow faster than more profitable commercial orders.

UPS is launching a new service that will allow customers to pick up packages at local businesses instead of a home doorstep.

A new report by the IMF finds the world's major banks aren't healthy enough to support the global economic recovery alone.

An improving U.S. economy is encouraging shoppers to spend more on gifts this holiday season.

The Dow dropped 272 points Tuesday.

Most Americans don't feel the economic recovery, and they've already decided who to blame.

The Catalan region of Spain will vote on whether to secede Nov. 9.

The U.S. dollar is trading at multiyear highs, which could harm American multinationals reporting sales in foreign currencies.

Only one third of aid from OECD Development Assistance Committee members went to the poorest countries, according to a new report.

The drop in factory orders, the sharpest since 2009, was driven by weak foreign demand amid tensions with Russia.

The latest jobs report is the final one before midterm elections, and it may be too late to help Democrats keep control of the Senate.

Full-time jobs are finally replacing part-time positions in the American economy in a hopeful sign of a strengthening expansion.

The U.S. economy added 248,000 jobs in September, while the unemployment rate fell to 5.9 percent — a six-year low.

The president defended his administration's handling of the economy in a speech Thursday at Northwestern University.

Welcome to the slowest economic recovery in the recorded history of the United States.

The purchase plan may include risky loans, which would cause tension between the ECB and some member countries.

After a lethal injection took nearly an hour to kill an inmate in April, the Oklahoma prison system is updating execution protocol.

One of the victims was a 10-year-old girl from Rhode Island.

The Ebola patient was seen vomiting outside his apartment complex on the way to a Dallas hospital, a local resident said.

If the St. Louis prosecutor's office finds a juror has discussed the Michael Brown shooting case with outsiders, it may have to convene a new jury.

Chilly reception: Oslo is the sixth city to drop a bid for the 2022 Winter Games after the Sochi games cost a sky-high $51 billion.

Michael Dunn, 47, shot and killed a 17-year-old in 2012 in a dispute over loud music emanating from a vehicle full of teens.

Health officials are monitoring everyone who came into close contact with the first person diagnosed with Ebola in the U.S.

U.S. oil prices slid the most in 17 months on Tuesday, with international oil prices close behind.

South America's second-largest economy is battling American creditors in New York courts -- here's an explainer on the whole imbroglio.

The European Commission and U.S. Senate have been investigating Apple's tax strategies that have saved the company billions.

Personal spending and incomes increased in August on the strength of job gains.

The EU will release results this week of its probe into whether the Irish government allowed improper tax breaks for Apple.