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After losing ground for five consecutive days, U.S. stocks gained some ground Wednesday. In Europe, the story was quite different. The approach taken by central bankers in the United States and elsewhere has diverged — in ways that could have a big effect on the U.S. economy.

Delta Air Lines and its pilots' union have reached a tentative agreement on a new labor contract, according to a federal mediator. No details of the deal have been announced, but the company was seeking significant cuts in pay and benefits to reduce its cost. Delta pilots will vote on the tentative deal.

The economic downturn is affecting all types of businesses. To find out how businesspeople of color are dealing with the crisis, Tell Me More swung by the 30th annual conference of the National Black MBA Association.

The Supreme Court has upheld the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act, the law prohibiting an abortion procedure known medically as "intact dilation and extraction." The procedure is performed most often during the fifth or sixth month of pregnancy.

Police said the back door of the American Civic Association was blocked with a car before a gunman came through the front door. He shot two receptionists — one who survived to alert police — before going into other rooms in the building. In all, 14 people died, including a man believed to be the shooter.

Thursday marks the third anniversary of legalized gay marriage in Massachusetts. But even as gay rights advocates celebrate the nearly 10,000 same-sex couples who've officially tied the knot, they are gearing up to fight a measure that might end same-sex marriage altogether.

Met with news that the Supreme Court has blocked his administration's plans for military tribunals at the Guantanamo Bay prison, President Bush says the White House will study the decision. The court said the administration's approach does not meet the standards of international law or federal statutes.

In a long-running government case, a federal judge rules that cigarette makers engaged in a 50-year conspiracy to deceive the public about the dangers of smoking. Anti-smoking groups are disappointed that permanent education programs aren't part of the ruling but believe the judge's language creates a strong arsenal for individual smokers to sue for damages for their own smoking-related diseases.

Members of Congress are under pressure to draw up new regulations for banking and investing in a matter of months. It's a scary and complicated task, they say, and the stakes are enormous.

Dozens of websites have been secretly harvesting lists of places that their users previously visited online, everything from news articles to bank sites to pornography. A team of UCSD computer scientists -- a graduate student and 3 professors -- found that the practice of "history sniffing" is possible because of a weakness in web browsers which allows websites to do this.