SOMERSET, Pa. (AP) _ The head of the nation's largest automaker took perhaps the most important car ride of his life Wednesday, traveling 500 miles, mostly over highway through four states, to Washington, D.C., where he will ask Congress for a second time to save his slumping company. Two weeks ago Rick Wagoner flew to Washington on...

NEW YORK (AP) _ A group of managers and employees has won an auction to buy Lehman Brothers Holdings' prized investment management unit, which includes the Neuberger Berman money management business. The bid by the Neuberger Berman group beat out two other competing bidders, one of which included private equity firms Bain Capital...

A $4.5 billion bid Wednesday by France's state-controlled power company for reactors in Maryland and New York could lead to the only foreign ownership stake in U.S. nuclear plants. The late bid for half of Constellation Energy's nuclear business also puts Electricite de France SA in direct competition with an American icon, Warren...

DETROIT (AP) _ Worried about their jobs and warned that the cost of failure could be a depression, hundreds of leaders of the United Auto Workers voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to make concessions to the struggling Detroit Three, including all but ending a much-derided program that let laid-off workers collect up to 95 percent of their salaries....

WASHINGTON (AP) _ Financial industry lobbyists are urging the Treasury Department to take steps to lower mortgage rates and help stabilize the battered U.S. housing market. Under one proposal, Treasury would seek to lower the rate on a 30-year mortgage to 4.5 percent by purchasing mortgage-backed securities from Fannie Mae and...