AP Week in Pictures: North America

Pilots at Southwest Airlines can sock away more for retirement, thanks to a new retirement plan bene

A big strike might be coming to Hollywood. That's because the Writer's Guild of America - the union

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After a successful career in advertising, Erika Williams decided it was time for a change. She went

Not even four weeks into January, we were hit with the news we all assumed would be among the worst

As a professor and climate scientist in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Johns Hopk

The highest court in one of India’s 28 states ruled last month that “Mother Nature” has the same leg

Robert Muggah is co-founder of the Brazil-based Igarapé Institute and SecDev Group. He is a fellow a

A Macy's employee is being accused of hiding $151 million in delivery expenses over a nearly three-y

LONDON – The head of the BBC has resigned over his failure to disclose an alleged financial favor he

Crikey! Love was in the air at the premiere of Mission: Impossible—Dead Reckoning Part One in Sydney

"Pat, you think I eat too much?" Ginni Rometty asked her boss Pat O'Brien at IBM, more than 30 years

A small, twin-engine aircraft with only the pilot inside crashed near a busy highway in Texas on Wed

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC) says the government might want to reconsider the size of

It's Indicators of the Week! We round up the economic indicators that caught our attention ... Germa

The debt ceiling deadline, German economy, and happy workers