For the fifth straight year, a team from the United States has won the Little League World Series. Chula Vista, Calif., rallied to beat Chinese Taipei 6-3 for the state's first championship.

Scouting the women's Open field, from top seeds to dark horses.

Can anyone stop Roger Federer from winning his sixth consecutive U.S. Open title? Jon Wertheim breaks down the field, from top seeds to dark horses, and predicts a new champion.

Sick of bailout billions? Here's a bit of good news: While the government struggled to come up with a viable recovery plan, one ailing financial market has managed to heal itself.

U.S. stocks were poised to track world markets and open higher Friday, with investors focusing their attention on the health of the consumer.

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Stocks seesawed Friday as investors welcomed corporate news from Intel and Dell that signaled a bottom in the PC market, but mostly played it cautious after pushing the markets to 2009 highs in the previous session.

Microchip king Intel boosted its sales outlook for the current quarter on Friday, signaling an end to the deep PC market swoon.

People didn't make more money in July, but they were spending a bit more, a government report showed Friday.

In its star-crossed effort to prosecute an elite group of Las Vegas surgeons and plaintiff lawyers for an alleged conspiracy, the federal government just won a round.

When Alice Waters opened Chez Panisse in Berkeley in 1971, she wasn't trying to start a food revolution. But long before buzzwords like organic and locavore entered the popular lexicon, she was preaching the gospel of sustainable food to her customers.

We learned yesterday that the Fed Chief's wife Anna had her handbag stolen at a Starbucks in Washington, D.C. Her checkbook, driver's license, four credit cards and a small amount of cash were in her bag.

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The market keeps chugging along. But with speculative stocks like AIG and Vonage leading the way, you have to wonder if the rally won't soon go off the rails like Ozzy Osbourne's Crazy Train. Ay-Ay-Ay!

Question 1. Do you have to claim the money in the Cash for Clunkers program you received as income in your tax returns for next year? -- Joe, Indiana

Undeterred by the miniscule odds, people were lining up Friday for a chance to score the estimated 3 million Mega Millions jackpot.

The dollar continued to lose ground Friday at the end of a week in which it became cheaper for banks to borrow in yen than dollars for the first time in 16 years.

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Bankrupt Canadian telecom equipment maker Nortel Networks Corp. owes the United States Internal Revenue Service a staggering billion in taxes and interest, according to a claim filed in the company's bankruptcy case.

Regional banks in Maryland, Minnesota and California were closed by regulators Friday, bringing the total number of failed banks this year to 84, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation said.

With stocks now sitting more than 50% above March lows and notorious rally-spoiler September in sight, the calls for a pullback have been getting louder.

ST. LOUIS(AP) Matt Holliday and Chris Carpenter helped the St. Louis Cardinals continue their surge with two impressive performances.

MANKATO, Minn. (AP) -- Minnesota Vikings quarterback Tarvaris Jackson left the field on Saturday morning with an apparent leg injury.

PITTSBURGH(AP) Andrew McCutchen just shrugged, claiming ''every baseball player just has one of those days.'' But only nine other players in the 122-year history of the Pittsburgh Pirates have had the kind of day this rookie did.

A slimmed-down Beanie Wells arrived at the Arizona Cardinals training camp in the wee hours on Saturday and set his sights on winning the starting running back job by the time the season begins.

CHICAGO(AP) No. 9 batter Jayson Nix stirred up his team's offense without even swinging the bat and helped the Chicago White Sox beat the New York Yankees for a third straight game.

WESTMINSTER, Md. (AP) -- Baltimore Ravens wide receiver Derrick Mason has ended his retirement.