Articles By J.J. McGrath

Ford Motor Co.'s Emblem

CAW Chooses Ford In Effort To Secure Pattern Contract

The Canadian Auto Workers, or CAW, will concentrate on the Ford Motor Co. (NYSE: F) as it attempts to negotiate a collective-bargaining agreement in the roughly 24 hours left before its fast-approaching strike deadline on Monday at 11:59 p.m. EDT.

Chicago Teachers Union members leave a House of Delegates meeting in Chicago on Sunday, the seventh day of their first strike in 25 years.

Chicago School Daze: Strike To Continue A While Longer

The Chicago Public Schools will be closed both Monday and Tuesday, as the majority of the 800 members of the Chicago Teachers Union's House of Delegates who gathered Sunday voted to continue the CTU's first strike in 25 years.

Sudanese demonstrators attack the U.S. Embassy in Khartoum on Friday.

US Issues Travel Warnings, Trims Embassy Staff In Sudan, Tunisia

With American assets having been targeted during demonstrations sweeping the Middle East-North Africa region in recent days, the U.S. State Department issued travel warnings about Sudan and Tunisia on Saturday.

American International Group Inc CEO Robert Benmosche

US Will Cut Its AIG Stake To 23% From 53%, By One Estimate

Because of the U.S. Treasury Department's announcement Sunday that it has launched an offering of $18 billion worth of its American International Group Inc. (NYSE: AIG) common stock, the government will soon go from being the company's majority shareholder to being one of its minority shareholders.

Obama in Orlando

Obama Widens Narrow Lead Over Romney: Reuters/Ipsos Poll

With both the Democratic and Republican national conventions now history, the former party's incumbent Barack Obama has widened his narrow lead over the latter party's challenger Mitt Romney in the U.S. presidential-election race, according to Reuters/Ipsos poll results released Saturday.

Apple Samsung court Patent

Samsung's Market Cap A $12 Billion Casualty Of Patent-Infringement Case

In the wake of the $1.05 billion verdict delivered Friday in the widely watched U.S. intellectual-property case won by Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) and lost by Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (Korea: 005930), Samsung was battered in Korea Exchange trading Monday.

Tennesseans Justin and Kayla Franklin walk in the rain in Key West as Tropical Storm Isaac moves over the Floridian island Sunday.

About 24% Of Gulf Of Mexico's Oil Output Cut By Tropical Storm Isaac

With the approach of Tropical Storm Isaac in the Gulf of Mexico, about 24.2 percent of the gulf's daily oil production and about 8.2 percent of its daily natural-gas production has been shut-in, according to estimates of the U.S. Interior Department's Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement.

Amuay Explosion

Death Toll Climbs To 39 In Big Blast At Venezuelan Oil Refinery

With casualties of the earthshaking explosion at Venezuela's largest oil refinery rising to 39 dead and more than 80 injured on Saturday, President Hugo Chavez has called for an investigation to determine the cause of the firestorm at the Amuay plant in Falcon state in the northwest of the country.

US Athletes Aboard The Finland-Olympic Games

Rare Photos Of The '12 Olympic Games (They're Not What You Think)

The obligatory pageantry at every turn, the attendance of the European host country's royal family, and the participation of one who is arguably the greatest Olympic athlete of the modern era: These games had it all.

Phelps

Michael Phelps Continues To Rewrite Olympic Record Books

The amazing Michael Phelps won his third gold medal of the London 2012 Olympic Games -- and the 17th of his storied Olympic career -- as the swimmer scored a sensational come-from-behind victory in the 100-meter butterfly on Friday.