DETROIT (Reuters) - Toyota said on Tuesday it would fix all Tundra pickups sold in the United States for the 2000 to 2003 model years to address a risk that part of the truck's frame could corrode, causing spare tires or even the gas tank to drop to the road ...More
VIENNA (Reuters) - Motorists under the influence of drugs are a growing threat on U.S. roads, while the number who drink and drive has fallen thanks to education and law enforcement, a top U.S. drug control official said on Tuesday.
The United States is calling for discussions at United ...More
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - About 16 percent of Americans between the ages of 14 and 49 are infected with genital herpes, making it one of the most common sexually transmitted diseases, U.S. health officials said on Tuesday.
Black women had the highest rate of infection at 48 percent and women were ...More
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A television producer pleaded guilty on Tuesday to trying to extort $2 million from U.S. talk show host David Letterman by threatening to reveal his affairs with women who worked on his late-night program on CBS.
Robert Joel Halderman, a former producer for the CBS news ...More
LOS ANGELES/DETROIT (Reuters) - U.S. safety regulators and Toyota Motor Corp dispatched investigators to San Diego on Tuesday to inspect a Prius that sped out of control on a California freeway a day earlier.
U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said two investigators from the National Highway Traffic Safety ...More
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (Reuters) - The number of U.S. households with a net worth of at least $1 million jumped 16 percent last year after dipping sharply during the financial crisis, an industry consulting group said on Tuesday.
Households with a net worth of $1 million or more, excluding their ...More
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A senior executive with a major Atlanta-based energy services company has been reported missing during a business trip to New Orleans, and police said on Monday they are searching for him.
Douglas Schantz, the president of AGL Resources' wholesale energy-trading unit Sequent Energy Management, was last seen ...More
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The judge overseeing the liquidation of Ponzi schemer Bernard Madoff's investment firm has allowed victims unhappy with his ruling on how to calculate their losses to appeal directly to a federal appeals court.
Monday's ruling by Bankruptcy Judge Burton Lifland means shorter waits for victims ...More
ATLANTA (Reuters) - Police expect to interview Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger in the next few days over a sexual assault allegation made by a Georgia woman, a local police chief said on Monday.
The announcement followed a report by a 20-year-old college student that she was sexually assaulted early on ...More
CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. researchers estimate that an 18 percent tax on pizza and soda can push down U.S. adults' calorie intake enough to lower their average weight by 5 pounds (2 kg) per year.
The researchers, writing in the journal Archives of Internal Medicine on Monday, suggested taxing ...More
