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CEOs from more than 80 major U.S. companies are pressing Congress to reduce the federal deficit by raising taxes and cutting spending. The deficit and how to tame it has become a key theme in the presidential campaign.

Seniors have saved $5 billion on prescription drugs because of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the Department of Health and Human Services announced Thursday.

The United Mine Workers of America is suing Arch Coal Inc. and Peabody Energy Corp. in southern West Virginia over pension and health-care benefits for bankrupt Patriot Coal Corp.'s active and retired miners.

Less than two weeks out from Election Day, Republican Mitt Romney has erased President Barack Obama's 16-point advantage among women, a new Associated Press-GfK poll shows. And the president, in turn, has largely eliminated Romney's edge among men.

The majority of U.S. adults believe health insurance companies should be required to cover the full cost of birth control for women, just as they do for other preventive services, according to a new survey commissioned by The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy.

The director of South Carolina's Medicaid agency said Monday that he realizes his preliminary budget calling for nearly $200 million more from state taxes in 2013-14 is likely an impossible request.