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Major business and economic events scheduled for Thursday: WASHINGTON — Labor Department releases weekly jobless claims, 8:30 a.m. Eastern. WASHINGTON — Commerce Department releases retail sales data for November, 8:30 a.m. WASHINGTON — Freddie Mac, the mortgage company,...

Amazon.com Inc.'s grocery delivery service is rolling into San Francisco. The online retailer says it is expanding its AmazonFresh service into the city after testing it in Los Angeles and Seattle. The service provides same-day and early-morning delivery of more than 500,000 Amazon...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A new report finds that the federal government awards billions of dollars in contracts each year to companies that routinely violate safety, health and wage regulations. The report from Democratic leaders on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress' budget office estimates that the just-announced budget deal would increase the deficit over the next two years by $41.4 billion. The analysis also says the deal would save taxpayers $23 billion, when calculated over the coming decade. But there's a cost...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A clothing company is recalling 756 girls jackets sold at Burlington Coat Factory stores in the U.S., saying drawstrings on the jackets pose a risk of strangulation. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said Wednesday that Ram's Imports Inc. of New York is...

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks sagged Wednesday as investors assessed weak earnings reports from several U.S. companies. Health care stocks had some of the biggest declines. Laboratory Corporation of America slumped after cutting its full-year earnings forecast. Quest Diagnostics, a major...

NEW YORK (AP) — Harvey and Bob Weinstein have sued Warner Bros.' New Line Cinema claiming they're owned a share of the profits from the second and third "Hobbit" films. In a suit filed Wednesday in New York, the Weinsteins say their 1998 sale of the rights to J.R.R. Tolkien's "The...

A U.S. bankruptcy court judge has confirmed Residential Capital's plan to exit Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The signing of the order Wednesday marks the court's formal approval and a major milestone in the bankruptcy of the troubled mortgage lending and service company. ResCap filed for...

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans signaled support Wednesday for a budget deal worked out a day earlier, a plan narrowly drawn but promoted as a way to stabilize Congress' erratic fiscal efforts, avert another government shutdown and mute some of the partisan rancor that has...

WASHINGTON (AP) — As federal regulators consider removing a decades-old prohibition on making phone calls on planes, a majority of Americans who fly oppose such a change, a new Associated Press-GfK poll finds. The Federal Communications Commission will officially start the debate...