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In January 2010, the unemployment rate was 9.7 percent. If you had asked most people then to look forward to the end of the year, few would have guessed the rate would be even higher now.But it is.

If you've spent time stuck in an airport this holiday season, but got a cheap ticket, you may have Alfred Kahn to thank -- or blame.The noted economist, who died in Ithaca, N.Y., on Monday at age 93, taught economics at Cornell University for more than 60 years.

Let's be honest. Some folks just aren't great gift-givers.They mean well, but always choose the wrong size or color or style. Maybe they think you're still into disco.

The federal commission investigating the BP blowout in the Gulf of Mexico has laid out for the first time its narrative of the disaster.Eleven men were killed April 20 on the Deepwater Horizon rig.

The Obama administration on Tuesday lifted the deep-water drilling moratorium it imposed in May after the BP oil well explosion, but drilling isn't expected to resume immediately and rig workers remain in limbo.Ken Tanguis and his wife, Jeanette, live in Houma, La., a small city south of New Orleans

Last of a three-part seriesDetroit has been at the center of the country's auto industry ever since Henry Ford rolled his first Model T off the assembly line in 1908.But as hard times have fallen on America's Rust Belt, there's a new region hoping to give Detroit a run for its money.