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Lawyers for some of the nation's largest retailers say Visa and MasterCard illegally thwarted for years the growth of debit-card networks, The Wall Street Journal reports. The allegations stem from recently unsealed court documents from a class-action suit that includes Wal-Mart and Sears. NPR's Jim Zarroli reports.

Retailers set sales records as the holiday shopping season gets underway. Discounter Wal-Mart had its biggest one-day sales ever, hawking $1.43 billion of merchandise. Trend analyst Shoppertrak says U.S. retailers report a 12 percent sales increase over last year. NPR's Andrea Seabrook reports.

Kroger says the merger with Albertsons is needed to stay competitive with Walmart and Amazon, whose dominance in the grocery market has grown in recent years.

Six members of the House panel investigating the Jan. 6 riots on the U.S. Capitol are running for reelection in 2022.

Three companies — StarKist, Chicken of the Sea and Bumble Bee — are accused by the government of conspiring to keep their canned tuna prices high.

On Second Stage, All Songs Considered producer Robin Hilton profiles the best of music's great unknowns. He chooses the best outsider artists of 2007: musicians who made remarkable recordings that were largely overlooked, led by Le Loup.

By Mark ScottBuffalo, NY – The town of Amherst continues to have the area's highest bond rating. Amherst officials learned from Moody's Investors Service…

By Andrew Polino Buffalo, NY – New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli is expressing his concerns about the enacted state budget bills. DiNapoli held a…

Community members are now asking for substantial changes beyond the reopening of a place that is still the source of so much pain and trauma.

The non-profit College Board reports that the average annual cost of a four-year private college is now above $30,000. Sending a student off to a year at a public school now costs, on average, nearly $12,800.