It's on his to-do list, but U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell says the odds are against repealing the health care law championed by President Barack Obama.

Lending to small businesses is recovering after a four-month decline.

U.S. manufacturing shrank in June for the first time in nearly three years, adding to signs that economic growth is weakening.

Presidents live in a world of wins and losses quickly forgotten. Rarely are they presented with the kind of defining moment that President Barack Obama experienced when the Supreme Court upheld his health care law.