Two politically divergent experts concur in recent books that the U.S. in the 21st century will remain the globe’s leading power despite a plethora of challenges.

Disney on Ice, once a backwater that the media giant practically ignored, has quietly grown into an important tool for the company.

Proposed regulatory changes would be a push toward global markets, but critics say the changes would dilute safeguards.

The disclosure, on the eve of the contracts’ announcement, is the first confirmation of direct U.S. involvement in deals to open Iraq’s oil to commercial development.

A report said that the U.S. is in danger of losing its high-tech edge as jobs go unfilled, in part a consequence of too few green cards or work visas available to talented foreign students.

An agreement in which the U.S. would not export to South Korea beef from cattle under 30 months old is was sought to defuse South Korean furor over beef exports.

Critics of President Lee Myung-bak said they would continue their protests despite his repeated apologies for a U.S. beef import deal.

Trade envoys from South Korea and the United States broke off talks in Washington, then agreed to resume them, on revising a pact on American beef imports, officials said.

To deal with the hassle of getting visas stamped in their employees’ passports, companies are increasingly outsourcing the task to companies known as expediters.

The deals between leading businesses in China and the U.S. sought to overcome mutual suspicion of foreign investment on the eve of economic talks between the two countries.