Investigators probing the collapse of MF Global Holdings Ltd. are scrutinizing two money transfers made during the securities firm's final days in an effort to uncover what happened to $1.6 billion in missing customer funds.

The Obama administration is calling for stronger privacy protections for consumers as mobile gadgets, Internet services and other tools do a better job of tracking what you do and where you go.

There was something old, something new, in the misstatements of the candidates Wednesday in what was possibly the last GOP debate.

A federal judge in San Francisco ruled Wednesday that the U.S. government cannot deny health benefits to the wife of a lesbian court employee by relying on the 1996 law that bars government recognition of same-sex unions.

An Idaho Republican state senator who had been seen as a political riser has stepped down amid sexual harassment allegations.