January 9.4% rate up from year-earlier 8.5%, first year-over-year increase in more than six years.

Regulation, also put on hold by federal court, would require firms to disclose past labor-law violations to qualify for federal contracts

Construction spending in the U.S. fell by 0.2% in December, to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $1.18 billion, according to the U.S. Dept. of Commerce’s Census Bureau.

A bill to speed approval of advanced nuclear technologies and another to change the way the Dept. of Energy’s national laboratories are managed are among a handful of energy measures the House has passed in the first weeks of its new session.

Pension advocacy group says local's early retirees would be hit particularly hard, facing cuts of up to 60%.