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Peter Orszag, the first high-profile member of President Barack Obama's administration to leave the White House, will contribute a regular column for The New York Times beginning next week.

The selection of five new members of Jackson Health System's governing board will start Tuesday when the PHT Nominating Council meets in the County Commission chambers at 10 a.m.

A nationwide civil service strike entering its third week is causing massive backlogs at courthouses, and a top South African lawyer said Friday that defendants whose legal proceedings are delayed could end up suing the government for damages.

A Texas company says it temporarily plugged a ruptured oil well Friday in western North Dakota that leaked more than 2,400 barrels of crude and water.

BP PLC said the blowout preventer that failed to stop oil from spewing into the Gulf of Mexico was removed from the company's well on Friday afternoon.

President Barack Obama says that a new jobs report showing private sector growth in August is positive but more needs to be done for the economy.

Is the global economy out of the woods? Two years after near-meltdown, with the U.S. looking sluggish, equity markets groggy and Europeans fighting a debt crisis, experts gathered in Italy offered a generally gloomy outlook – especially for the United States and much of the industrialized world.

Goldcorp Inc. said Friday that it has agreed to buy Andean Resources Ltd. for about 3.6 billion Canadian dollars ($3.42 billion) in a deal that would give it access to an Argentinian mining project said to contain a significant amount of gold and silver.

The agency that oversees offshore drilling will investigate the fire on an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico.

President Barack Obama will speak to reporters Friday after the Labor Department releases its monthly jobless report.

BP says it has so far spent $8 billion responding to the disastrous oil well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico.

An annual survey released Thursday finds that workers are paying, on average, about $482 more for job-based family health insurance this year as companies force employees to shoulder more of the burden of healthcare costs.

Miami-Dade's population has returned to pre-recession levels, another sign of a fragile economic recovery, according to a University of Florida report.

Terra Beachside Villas, the once-distressed Miami Beach condo building that has sat empty for two years, is searching for new life as its owners look to complete a rapid turnaround from foreclosure to full health.

President Felipe Calderon tried to rally frustrated Mexicans behind his increasingly bloody drug war Thursday, saying he knows violence has surged under his watch, but arguing that it is the price of confronting powerful and brutal cartels.

Here are some differences between the Deepwater Horizon rig disaster April 20 and the oil production platform explosion Thursday in the Gulf of Mexico: