Stocks advanced Tuesday afternoon, as investors welcomed better-than-expected quarterly results from Apple and other firms and scooped up shares hit in last week's big selloff.

If you take a look at Fortune's latest list of the 100 Best Companies to Work For, you'll note an interesting trend: you can't buy stock in four of the top five.

Two weeks after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake devastated Haiti's capital, staggering numbers have mounted. They tell of death, destruction and an outpouring of aid.

President Obama's proposed spending freeze could help him recapture the favor of centrist voters, but critics blast the move as nothing more than political posturing.

Home prices fell in November for the first time in seven months, according to a industry report released Tuesday.

Dozens of lawmakers support legislation that would set up a more streamlined system for matching Haitian orphans with families in the United States, a U.S. senator said Tuesday.

Drivers of commercial trucks and buses will be prohibited from texting under federal guidelines that U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood is issuing Tuesday.

Drivers of commercial trucks and buses will be prohibited from texting under federal guidelines that U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced today.

Sixty miles west of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, an Air Force C-130 makes slow and lazy ovals over the Golfe de la Gonzave, a 264-foot weighted wire dangling from its belly like a plumb line.

Drs. Roberto Feliz and Hiba Georges were quickly jolted from cutting edge medicine in Boston to the most rudimentary of care when they got to Haiti.

Dr. Roberto Feliz and Dr. Hiba Georges were quickly jolted from the most modern of medical care in Boston, Massachusetts, to the most rudimentary of care when they flew to Haiti last week to work at a hospital housed in two tents run by the University of Miami.

As the nation's top stimulus cop, Earl Devaney tracks whether the $787 billion in taxpayer money is being properly spent.

Investigators continued their search Tuesday for a 7-year-old girl who was reported missing after her mother was found dead in Oklahoma.

President Obama is poised to propose a three-year freeze on non-security, discretionary spending, senior administration officials told CNN Monday.

President Obama killed the banks and the stock market on Thursday. That's what all the headlines said. But those headlines don't tell the whole story.

A lab technician charged with killing a Yale graduate student pleaded not guilty today during a court hearing in New Haven, Connecticut, his attorney said.

Reeling from the death of her father, Nancy Kerrigan still mustered the strength to show the class and courtesy for which she is known in the skating world.

Federal government gets mixed report card on implementing national security measures in the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007.

A commission set up to assess national security measures today gave the U.S. government a failing grade in improving response time to a biological attack.

Bond prices rose Tuesday on a stronger dollar and amid speculation that China will continue to tighten its credit policy.