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Family Dollar has lost ground in the dollar store race for years. Now, the discount chain hopes lowering prices will help win back customers on tight budgets.

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Newly released documents from April of 2004 reveal President George W. Bush pushed back against knowing about a domestic terror threat prior to the September 11 attack and the notion that his administration could have prevented it from happening. CNN's Tom Foreman reports.

No matter how smart or well educated you are, and no matter how successful professionally, when it comes to investing you still might not make the best decisions.

Al Roker's "Today" family is sending him love after he has been readmitted to a hospital.

As freight railroad workers look to Congress to provide them with paid sick days, millions of other American employees have no safety net if they fall ill.

Merriam-Webster has named "gaslighting" its word of the year.

The long fight to end HIV/AIDS has seen real progress spurred by innovative research, prevention, treatment and education. But our nation's ambitious goal of ending the HIV epidemic by 2030 is nevertheless in peril.

Prices at the pump continue to plunge, dropping the US average for gasoline below where it was when Russia invaded Ukraine.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell made investors very happy on Wednesday. US stocks popped after the central banker gave a speech strongly indicating that the Fed would ease the historically-high pace of interest rate rises at its next policy meeting in December.

In many ways, Christmas as an adult is like Groundhog Day. You roll out of bed far earlier than you'd prefer, and for the most part, the 12 hours that follow are a comforting, but largely predictable rerun, of Christmases past: presents, shower, walk, food, sofa, TV. The same terrible TV.

• Biden welcomes Macron for first state visit • Butter-poached lobster with a side of hospitality • Photos: White House state dinners

Airbus has announced it is developing a hydrogen-powered fuel cell engine -- and that it plans to test it on the largest commercial airplane ever to take to the skies.

Ahead of Friday's closely watched jobs report, economists polled by Refinitiv say they are expecting job growth to have slowed in November, with just 200,000 positions added.

With the Mauna Loa volcano continuing to erupt on Hawaii's Big Island, local officials and residents are keeping an eye on the lava flow as it creeps closer to a major roadway and making plans for the possibility that access to the highway could soon be cut off and have a major impact on daily life.

President Joe Biden will greet the Prince and Princess of Wales while in Boston for a fundraiser Friday, the White House said Wednesday.

An Ohio man accused along with his family members the 2016 massacre of another family was found guilty of multiple murder charges Wednesday.

When a referee generates column inches, it is normally some indictment of their performance; the result of an uproar after a controversial decision.

If you're often running late to work because you can't find your keys or tensing at the sight of kitchen clutter, you might feel the need to get organized. But what if you don't know where to start?

• Mother of Uvalde massacre victim sues gun manufacturer, gun shop and law enforcement officers