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Detroit once reigned as the center of America's auto industry. Some 60 years later, the city serves as the nation's poster child for urban decay. Abandoned houses and broken-down buildings litter the...

Figuring out exactly who’s cashing in on the post-9/11 boom in secret programs just got a whole lot easier. U.S. spy agencies, the State Department and the White House had a collective panic attack...

By Adam Shell, USA TODAY NEW YORK — The images of bread lines, dust storms and squatters' camps are missing in the aftermath of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. Stocks have rebounded...

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT - News) plans to roll out sophisticated electronic ID tags to track individual pairs of jeans and underwear, the first step in a system that advocates say better controls inventory...

• Shortfall could reach 10m barrels a day, report says • Cost of crude oil is predicted to top $100 a barrel The US military has warned that surplus oil production capacity could disappear within two...

In June 2004, my wife, Summer, and I arrived at the 40 vacant acres of grass and woods we had just purchased, nestled in the hills of southwest Wisconsin. Summer was six months pregnant, and we had our...