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Less than a month before recall elections, Wisconsin Senate Republicans struggled Thursday with how to respond to bipartisan pressure for them to vote on a bill extending unemployment benefits.

When the glow fades for those couples planning to wed Sunday when gay marriage becomes legal in New York, they will see a new reality: They won't be getting the same benefits as heterosexual couples.

Looks like women are better off in heels. New research shows taller women have a higher risk of developing cancer than their vertically-challenged peers.

Some discord emerged as NFL owners pored over a tentative deal to end the league's labor dispute before an expected vote Thursday.

House Speaker John Boehner predicted Thursday that a majority of House Republicans will end up supporting some kind of compromise as the Senate began debating a House-passed effort to tie an increase in the debt ceiling to conservative demands for a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution.

Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay says he expects NFL teams to vote Thursday on a tentative deal to end the league's labor dispute.

A private research group forecast that the economy will grow slowly as summer turns into fall — if U.S. politicians can agree to raise the amount the government can borrow.

Person-to-person networking remains the most successful job-seeking tool in the Northeast, according to a new study by Right Management, which analyzed job data on the more than 6,000 regional individuals who used career transition services during the last three years.