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A group led by Sony confirms that it has agreed to buy the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio for nearly $5 billion. The deal would include the studio's vast library of films. NPR's Robert Siegel talks with Variety reporter Ben Fritz.

With the House voting down the government bank bailout, the Dow Jones industrial average is plummeting. Earlier Monday, Citigroup announced it will buy Wachovia Bank. What does it all mean?

Wells Fargo announced Friday that it will buy Wachovia in a deal worth about $15 billion after Wachovia ended talks with rival suitor Citigroup. Wells Fargo said the merger will require no assistance from the government.

President Bush and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson are asking Congress to move swiftly on a proposal to buy up bad mortgage debt from Wall Street firms. The cost of the program could run into the hundreds of billions of dollars.

Doctors are concerned by a backlash against sunscreen that is spreading on social media. Recent surveys suggest many younger Americans are buying into this misinformation.

High-end accommodations for pooches are thriving in one of the world's most unequal countries. They have their defenders and their critics. Who's barking up the right tree?

Beirut is peaceful now, but political divisions still run deep — and people are still hesitant to look back on the civil war years of the 1970s and 1980s.

President Obama will address the immigration issue in a speech Tuesday, following hard on the heels of a new overhaul proposal out of the Senate. Despite new momentum on the issue, those who favor a harder line against illegal immigrants are not convinced they need to change tack.

This week's GOP convention is giving America a nightly view of the current Republican Party, under complete command of President Trump.

Firefighting crews were battling to keep the fire in northern New Mexico, the largest fire burning in the U.S., from making another run across the state's drought-parched landscape.