NEW YORK (Reuters) - Many workers around the world have given up hopes of advancing in their jobs, but the bad economy is keeping them from finding new ones.
WASHINGTON/SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp said on Monday it had found no evidence to support the driver's account of a widely publicized "runaway" Prius incident in California that overshadowed the company's attempts to restart sales after a punishing series of recalls.
WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - Melting snow will cause major flooding along the Red River in North Dakota by Tuesday with water levels just below the record set in 2009 during one of the worst floods in the state's history, the National Weather Service said on Monday.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City will renovate 21 public housing projects, home to thousands of people, through two deals that allow it to for the first time tap federal funds for them, the city and state said on Monday.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Credit card delinquency rates improved at JPMorgan Chase & Co and a majority of others -- a sign the lenders still face hurdles in the wake of the deep recession.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The former president of New York's privately held Park Avenue Bank was arrested on Monday on fraud charges, the first person accused of attempting to steal U.S. government bailout funds in the financial crisis.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. industrial production braked sharply in February, held back by severe winter storms that slammed parts of the country, while manufacturing activity in New York state stalled this month.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - People leave more than fingerprints when they touch stuff -- they also deposit a tell-tale trail of germs that could help investigators solve crimes, U.S. researchers reported on Monday.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Americans have grown more content about current environmental quality over the past year, though 53 percent still rate conditions as only fair to poor, according to a Gallup poll released on Monday.
