Bryan Pirkle

The House has approved a bill to prevent the Obama administration from imposing a stream-protection rule for coal mining that government experts say would eliminate thousands of jobs.

Disney is buying Maker Studios, an operator of YouTube video channels, for $500 million, as consumers watch more videos online.

Haiti's cholera outbreak is still the worst in the world, the top U.N. envoy there said Monday.

Rain is expected to hamper the search Monday for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet, as a growing number of planes focus on an expanded area of the southern Indian Ocean where French radar detected potential debris.

FONTANA, CA

Police in northwest Georgia say they're searching for a suspect in connection with a fatal shooting at a nightclub.

Anheuser-Busch and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters say they have reached a tentative deal on a five-year contract for workers at the beverage-maker's 12 U.S. breweries.

Long past are the days in which British royalty knighted nobles for their services in battles. Recently, though, a British ambassador inducted a University of Georgia professor into a chivalric order for his struggle to halt the demise of bees.

All but one of the nation's 30 largest banks are better able to withstand a severe U.S. recession and global downturn than at any time since the financial crisis, the Federal Reserve has determined.

Threats to Defense Department personnel and facilities increasingly are coming from trusted insiders, and to defeat them the Pentagon must beef up security from within, according to several reviews triggered by last year's Washington Navy Yard killings.