WASHINGTON (AP) -- A White House official says President Barack Obama has chosen economist Austan Goolsbee to be the chairman of his Council of Economic Advisers....

BEIJING (AP) -- China's trade surplus hit its second-highest level this year in August, likely fueling U.S. demands for Beijing to ease currency controls....

TOKYO (AP) -- Asian stock markets gained in early trading Friday as sentiment improved after gains on Wall Street....

BERLIN (AP) -- A member of Germany's central bank who made disparaging remarks about Muslims and Jews in a disputed book has agreed to quit his position on the board, the Bundesbank said in a statement Thursday....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama's top health official on Thursday warned the insurance industry that the administration won't tolerate blaming premium hikes on the new health overhaul law....

SEATTLE (AP) -- U.S. Web surfers are spending more time socializing on Facebook than searching with Google, according to new data from researchers at comScore Inc....

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) -- In a skirmish between two Internet heavy hitters with a tangled relationship, eBay Inc. has convinced a court that it was wronged by antitakeover moves adopted by Craigslist after eBay started encroaching on its online classifieds turf in the U.S....

NEW YORK (AP) -- Consumers curious - or concerned - about the chemicals in household cleaning products will get detailed rundowns under state plans to require manufacturers to detail their products' contents....

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A woman who had just been suspended from her job and escorted from a Kraft Foods Inc. facility in the city's northeast section on Thursday returned with a handgun and opened fire, killing two people and critically injuring a third, police said....

NEW YORK (AP) -- Donald Trump offered Thursday to buy out a major investor in the real estate partnership that controls the site near ground zero where a Muslim group wants to build a 13-story Islamic center and mosque....