He says he's headed there as the administration ramps up its engagement with Latin America.

Dallas Fed President Richard Fisher is pointing the finger at Washington politicians for holding back job growth.

A House panel has voted to place a five-year moratorium on bonuses to senior executives at the Department of Veterans Affairs.

The sponsor of the proposal, Rep. Jeff Miller, Republican chairman of the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs, says the legislation is in response to media reports about various executives who received performance bonuses despite significant problems that occurred during their watch, such as the increase in the number of disability claims pending longer than 125 days.

The VA had already halted bonuses for those executives overseeing disability claims, but Miller's legislation approved Wednesday extends the ban to other divisions within the government's second-largest department.

The VA did not respond to a request for comment, but has stressed previously that bonuses have been reduced in recent years.

McDonald's said April sales at its established restaurants fell 0.6 percent amid tough competition.

The House Foreign Affairs Committee says there is a need to monitor how the Internet facilitates it.

Christmas tree growers are lobbying for an ads to boost their industry, but the White House has sidelined the plan.

Two New Jersey men are facing charges of running a 9/11 memorial scam allegedly by collecting donations and selling memorial T-shirts from the back of a pickup truck painted with the World Trade Center towers, according to the state attorney general's office.

Like Amanda Berry, who ran to freedom Monday after years in captivity, Tonia Carmichael was abducted and held by a male captor not far from her Cleveland home.

Universities are working to diversify their student bodies in states like California, which has eliminated race-conscious admissions.    

To avoid the next Knight Trading catastrophe.

Mortgage applications are rising as rates are falling, and credit availability may finally be easing.

State department staffers recount the night.

An American Eagle flight from Detroit landed safely in New York Wednesday morning after the plane carrying 20 passengers was struck by lightning as it approached La Guardia.

The captain declared an emergency and safely landed the plane. Crews are inspecting the aircraft.  

Most Americans don't know what Zillow is, and the company is looking to change that, said CEO Spencer Rascoff.

Ferrari is capping production this year. The stated reason: status protection. But there could be more behind the move.

Now that the Dow has cracked 15,000, the argument for "sell in May" may be getting weaker, say traders.

Trial watchers continue to await news of a verdict in the Jodi Arias case.

They challenge his reaction to their report.

Authorities say a 3-year-old Florida boy has died after shooting himself with a gun he found in his uncle's backpack.

The shooting happened Tuesday night in a bedroom Jadarrius Speights shared with his uncle at an apartment complex in Tampa. Authorities say the uncle, 29-year-old Jeffrey D. Walker, has been charged with culpable negligence.

It wasn't immediately clear whether Walker had an attorney. His phone number was not listed and jail records didn't give a lawyer for him.

Police say he has a concealed weapons permit.

Hillsborough County sheriff's spokeswoman Debbie Carter says the uncle was not in the room when the shooting happened, but the child's parents were there. The boy was taken to a hospital where he died.

Health care and technology, not banking and finance, top millennials' choice of careers, according to a new survey.