Rhonda Crosswhite, a sixth-grade math at Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Okla., said the idea that school might be canceled Monday because of a looming tornado had never even crossed her mind. “We never think that’s an option,” Crosswhite told NBC News. “We live in Oklahoma ...

Stocks are slightly lower in afternoon trading following the release of the minutes from the last Fed policy setting meeting that suggesting tapering bond purchases may come sooner than market expects. The market had moved higher earlier in the session after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke ...

WASHINGTON — A top Internal Revenue Service official invoked the 5th Amendment and declined to testify Wednesday before a House committee investigating the agency’s mishandling of applications by some conservative groups for tax-exempt status. “I have not done anything wrong. I have not broken ...