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Piggybacking aboard a Boeing 747, the space shuttle Discovery made a dramatic flyover of Washington Tuesday before touching down near its final resting place, a museum outside the US capital.

Tensions among some of the world’s leading economies are on a boil over a plan to raise new resources for the International Monetary Fund to contain the euro zone debt crisis and a quest by emerging economies to win more say in the global...

An eve-of-war atmosphere is presently far more pervasive in Washington than in Jerusalem or Tel Aviv. The United States is just starting to emerge from the so-called Great Recession – its worst economic downturn since the Great Depression...

Washington state opened a public auction online Thursday of its state-run liquor stores, beginning the process of privatizing a booze industry the state has tightly controlled since the end of Prohibition. Within hours, more than 30 bidders...

A three-year-old McDonald’s McNugget resembling first US President George Washington has sold on eBay for $8,100 (£5,108).

The Washington Post announced a new round of buyouts on Wednesday, the latest in a series of staff reductions that have decreased the size of its newsroom by more than 200 people over the last three years.

Washington, which had its credit outlook cut to negative yesterday by Moody’s Investors Service, issued $979 million of bonds through an auction, obtaining yields below benchmark indexes.

India, the US and Japan are holding their first trilateral meeting later in the day in Washington in what is being widely seen as a move to coordinate push back against a common competitor — China.

The economic outlook for the Washington, D.C., metro area is improving, with most employment sectors anticipated to expand in 2010, according to the 2010 National Retail Report by commercial real estate investment services firm Marcus &...