Insurance brokerage Aon said Friday that its net income rose 26 percent in the third quarter as revenue improved at its risk and its human resources businesses.

On this, GOP budget guru Rep. Paul Ryan and top Senate Democrat Harry Reid can agree: There wont be a grand bargain on the budget.

The Food and Drug Administration is recommending new restrictions on prescription medicines containing hydrocodone, the highly addictive painkiller that has grown into the most widely prescribed drug in the U.S.

The North American Securities Administrators Association says that scam artists are hard at work trying to relieve unsuspecting retirement savers and other investors of their hard-earned assets.