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Hate crimes in 2015 increased by more than 6 percent, according to the FBI's crime statistics. Religiously motivated incidents rose by nearly 23 percent, with anti-Muslim attacks up 67 percent.

The U.S. provides around $1.3 billion in annual aid to the Egyptian military. A good deal of that money actually goes to U.S. defense contractors that provide hardware and services for Egypt's army. Here's a list of the companies receiving the biggest contracts.

The U.S. economy expanded at a solid 2.6 percent rate during the last three months of 2018, but growth was significantly lower than it had been earlier in the year as the boost from tax cuts waned.

The country supergroup will release its self-titled debut on Sept. 6. Hear the first single, "Redesigning Women."

Politics dominated the news this week. But the business world also had some interesting stories. Here are just three, involving Black Friday shopping, sham bank accounts and dining out.

Teachers won a raise of about $6,000 before the walkout, but were not granted the full amount of their demanded funds to improve school conditions.

A total of 21 groups have spent almost $20 million on 18,956 ads in the Denver market airing between July 30 and Nov. 6, an analysis shows. It found that President Obama and his allies are outspending Republican Mitt Romney and conservative groups allied with him, at least for now.

Neil Heslin, whose 6-year-old son was killed in Sandy Hook, cried while telling a Senate Committee that guns have not been adequately regulated. He said the day he lost his son was the saddest and worst day of his life.

Wisconsin has the highest number of binge drinkers in the nation, and they cost the state $6.8 billion in 2012.

The measure prohibits racially discriminatory mascots, images, sounds or songs in schools. And counties can no longer sound sirens that once signified it was time for certain people to leave town.