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The Near Field Communication (NFC) technology will reportedly be packed in the next generation iPhone - dubbed iPhone 5.

Adding to the rumor mill surrounding Apple's future products, a recent report suggested that Apple's next generation iPhone would feature near field communication, or NFC technology.

President Barack Obama Monday played down the use of U.S. drones in Iraq, saying the program was very limited and focused mainly on protecting the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad.

Facebook is presenting its users with a rare opportunity to project their opinions about the 2012 elections on a giant Times Square billboard.

Rutgers thought it had found the perfect replacement for Greg Schiano on Monday, but Florida International coach Mario Cristobal decided to turn down the job offer.

Whitehouse confirmed Monday that he and at least two co-sponsors will introduce a bill on Wednesday requiring millionaires to pay a 30 percent tax rate on their income.

The husband is also reportedly a member of an illegal militant gang that enjoys some political support in the area.

More than a year after a wave of popular uprisings swept across the Arab world, the White House spent Monday responding to the chaos the Arab Spring has unleashed in Syria and Egypt.

New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has proposed raising the minimum wage to $8.50 an hour, and tying it to inflation.

The Occupy movement resurged from a relatively quiet winter after about 400 people were arrested in Oakland over the weekend.

The Occupy movement entered a tumultuous new phase this weekend, with a violent weekend protest by Occupy Oakland resulting in 400 arrests and Occupy D.C. facing a noon Monday deadline to leave McPherson Square.

Fashionistas around the world are chomping at the bit to learn which Hollywood leading lady will wear what designer as the countdown to the 2012 Oscar Awards ticks closer. Here are some predictions for what Hollywood's top 10 leading ladies might wear this year, based off Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week designs.

Apple Inc has never turned a blind eye to the problems in its supply chain and any suggestion it does not care about the plight of workers is patently false, Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook said in an email to employees.

Apple CEO Tim Cook sent an email to the employees, Thursday, claiming the company cares about the worker's welfare, after the New York Times published, Wednesday, a lengthy report about the terrible working conditions in the major Apple product manufacturer Foxconn.

Kazimierz Smolen, a 91-year-old Auschwitz survivor, died Friday, in a hospital in Oswiecim on the 67th anniversary of its liberation. After World War II, Smolen became director of the memorial site.

A new petition asking Gov. Jan Brewer to apologize to President Barack Obama has been posted online by Arizona's state Democratic organization.

Apple celebrated the second birthday of the iPad on Friday, but the tablet's success has been overshadowed by a recent report from the New York Times that exposes labor violations at Apple's supply chain in China.

A Twitter blackout aimed at protesting censorship on the social media site is sweeping the web as its proponents urge users to go dark Saturday using the hash tag #TwitterBlackout.

Apple Inc. has never turned a blind eye to the problems in its supply chain, and any suggestion it does not care about the plight of workers is patently false, Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook said in an e-mail to employees.

Gold prices posted a modest gain Friday, capping a three-day rally as well as a week in which the yellow metal jumped 4.15 percent.

The world's biggest hedge fund Bridgewater Associates posted returns of 23 percent in 2011, in a year when most of its peers underperformed the major stock market indexes, the New York Times reported, citing people familiar with the firm's investment strategy.

Joshua Komisarjevsky, the second individual involved in the deadly Cheshire home invasion, was officially sentenced to death on Friday.

Yale quarterback Patrick Witt made worldwide headlines when he withdrew his Rhodes scholarship application in order to play against Harvard, but a shocking new report shows that he actually withdrew due to sexual assault allegations.

Childhood obesity is a growing problem, and the government is taking steps to try to curb it by changing what children are served for lunch in schools.

Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul and Rick Santorum faced off last night in the final GOP debate in Florida before the Jan. 31 primary. Here, find out what statements from the primary debate were true and which got the facts wrong, from Santorum on Latin America to Mitt Romney's involvement in Freddie Mac.

Before the iPhone debuted in 2007, Nokia was virtually alone in the smartphone world, and ever since then, it (and everyone else) has been chasing Apple. Nokia still sells more mobile phones than any other company, but mostly they are of the feature phone variety that don't have touchscreens and data plans. Nokia announced Jan. 26 they had lost over a billion dollars worth of business in the last three months of 2011, but their new line of Windows Phone-powered Lumia smartph...

Mother and newlywed Sherri Shepherd has donned hooker heels and scanty clothing for the movie One for the Money, which will be showing in theaters on Friday. The actress will let it all hang out in the comedy movie, a project she took on in addition to co-hosting The View, and working on the show The Newlyweds.

Americans working for U.S. organizations promoting democracy in Egypt have been barred from leaving the country, leading an angry Washington to accuse Egypt of endangering American lives.

Eric T. Schneiderman, the so-called Sheriff of Wall Street as New York state's attorney general, is heading a new, consolidated effort to find the criminality that led to the housing crisis.