The Food and Drug Administration is warning diabetes patients that certain blood sugar tests can give inaccurate results in patients taking other medications.

Hurricane Guillermo has strengthened into a Category 2 storm far out in the Pacific.

President Barack Obama says he isn’t trying to vilify the insurance companies. He says he’s just trying to stop their practices that hurt people.

At a town hall style meeting, a Montana man bluntly challenged President Barack Obama’s contention that he can overhaul health care without raising Americans’ taxes to pay for it.

Trying to lower the temperature of the health care fight, President Barack Obama on Friday denounced news media emphasis on angry protesters at town-hall meetings.

Agriculture futures were lower in early trading Friday on the Chicago Board of Trade.

Canada’s Federal Court of Appeal is upholding a lower court ruling ordering the Canadian government to seek the return of the last Western detainee at Guantanamo Bay.

Authorities have suspended an air traffic controller who was talking on the phone during last week’s deadly mid-air collision over New York’s Hudson River, along with a supervisor who was out of the building at the time.

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Prices for copper, silver and other metals rose Thursday as a weaker dollar and the promise of an economic recovery lured investors to commodities.