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Sarah Palin's loss in Alaska's special election for its lone House seat on Wednesday was in part the result of a flawed candidate facing an electorate she had angered 13 years earlier, in a state with a ranked-choice voting system that gave Republican voters other options.

The US economy shrank in the first half of the year, consumer sentiment plunged amid high inflation and unrest overseas, and some of the biggest names in business have cut thousands of jobs — but America's labor market hasn't skipped a beat.

The work-from-home boom may be over, and that's not good news for one pandemic stock market darling.

The Velis Electro is a battery-powered airplane, which could prove a hit at flight schools because of its low noise and zero emissions.

Google is preparing for a wave of misinformation surrounding the US midterm elections by elevating trustworthy information and displaying it more prominently across services including search and YouTube, the company said Thursday.

Workers in the United Kingdom have had enough of falling living standards.

Markets are hard to predict right now, and that's raising a question for some on Wall Street: Does a common measure of volatility actually work the way it should?