WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday proposed saving Americans billions of dollars on shoes by eliminating import duties ranging up to 67.5 percent. "Most hard-working American families don't realize they are paying a hidden tax on their shoes," Representative Joseph Crowley, a New York Democrat, said in a statement. American cannot avoid the tax because 99 ...

Late-night comics found a few things to laugh about in the racially charged arrest of a Harvard professor — once beer was added to the equation. President Barack Obama's invitation to the two men involved to hoist a few at the White House on Thursday opened the comedy ...

About 700 yards from the end of a LaGuardia Airport runway, where thousands of planes take off and land, New York officials want to build what could be the equivalent of a bird magnet: a very large garbage transfer station. Just four months after a run-in with ...