Eric Linton

Asian shares fell Wednesday, led by losses in technology and materials stocks after brokerage downgrades for Intel and a warning from global miner Rio Tinto about the uncertain near-term outlook.

NATO is ready to defend Turkey in its escalating confrontation with Syria, the alliance's top official vowed Tuesday.

The presidential race in the vital state of Ohio has tightened, but President Barack Obama still holds a four-point lead, a CNN poll released Tuesday finds. A New Hampshire poll shows a similar picture.

Mitt Romney’s strong performance in his first debate with President Barack Obama helped him slash Obama’s once-formidable lead in Michigan to three percentage points, a poll released Monday shows.

Asian shares edged higher Tuesday but were capped by concerns over global growth prospects, especially in China, and expected weak U.S. corporate earnings.

The IMF cut its global growth forecast Tuesday morning for the second time since April and warned U.S. and European policy makers that failure to fix their economic ills would prolong the slump.

Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky again denied he committed the "alleged disgusting acts" and said his wife has been his only sex partner in a statement Monday evening.

Following his “victory” in last week’s first debate, Republican nominee Mitt Romney has overtaken President Barack Obama in several polls, including a Pew survey released Monday that shows a four-point lead.

The U.N. Security Council Thursday evening condemned a Syrian mortar attack on a Turkish border town that killed five people.

Asian shares rose and the euro kept most of its overnight gains Friday as investor risk aversion eased after the European Central Bank said it was ready to buy bonds of troubled euro zone countries.

Dozens of lawsuits over Facebook's IPO fiasco against Facebook, Nasdaq and various underwriters will be centralized before a federal judge in New York, a panel of federal judges ordered Thursday.

Asian shares steadied Thursday and the safe-haven dollar eased after positive U.S. data, leaving investors waiting for more economic indicators later in the day and a European Central Bank policy meeting.

Florida opened a criminal probe Wednesday into Strategic Allied Consulting, the firm hired by the Republican Party to register new voters.

More than three weeks after U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens was killed in Libya, sensitive documents remain in the wreckage of the U.S. Consulate.

The dollar firmed and most riskier assets edged lower Wednesday as uncertainty over the timing of Spain's request for an international bailout added to worries about slowing global growth.

Mitt Romney is putting on the table cutting hugely popular middle-class income tax deductions used by millions -- for mortgage interest and medical costs.

Mississippi's new law requiring voters to show photo identification at the polls will not be in effect for the November election while federal officials review whether it is discriminatory, the state said Tuesday.

Mike McQueary, the former graduate assistant who said he saw ex-assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky sexually assaulting a young boy in 2001, sued Penn State Tuesday for defamation and misrepresentation.

A senior U.S. official tells the Associated Press there is strong circumstantial evidence that Mexican federal police who fired on a U.S. Embassy vehicle five weeks ago, wounding two CIA officers, were working as assassins for organized crime.

Barry Commoner, a founder of the science of ecology and of the environmental movement, died Sunday in New York at age 95.

Asian shares, the euro and the Australian dollar inched up Tuesday after an unexpected expansion in U.S. factory activity buoyed sentiment.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman sued JPMorgan Chase Monday, alleging widespread fraud in the sale of mortgage-backed securities by the defunct Bear Stearns before the financial crisis.

The Russian Orthodox Church, hinting at leniency, urged Pussy Riot to repent Sunday, on the eve of an appeals court ruling on the band’s sentences for performing an anti-Putin song in a Moscow cathedral.

More than 30 people died in bombings and shootings across Iraq Sunday, underscoring the government's struggle with a stubborn insurgency more than nine months after the last U.S. troops withdrew.

A member of the NATO-led force in Afghanistan and a civilian contractor have been killed in the latest insider attack by a member of the Afghan security forces.

Asian shares rose Friday on hopes that economic reform and budget plans unveiled by Spain will help it manage its debt imbalances and avoid a euro zone bailout.

Chinese naval ships have carried out patrolling and military training in waters off disputed islands held by Japan, the Defense Ministry said Thursday.

Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, the filmmaker behind the movie that sparked days of rioting across the Muslim world, was ordered jailed Thursday by a federal judge on probation violations.

Asian shares were capped Thursday as uncertainty over a Spanish bailout dented sentiment, while global lenders' wrangling over Greek debt restructuring highlighted Europe's trouble uniting to tackle its debt crisis.