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Some current and former members of the NYPD were arrested and brought up on federal charges early on Tuesday in a gun running scheme.

President Barack Obama's student loans deal will be announced in Denver on Wednesday, Business Day reports. The plan will not require any action from congress, and will announced in tandem with a new plan to make it easier for homeowners to refinance their mortgage.

Moammar Gadhafi was known for many things - his 41-year rule, his tyrannical regime, and (on a much lighter note) his flamboyant style. Gadhafi consistently made outrageous fashion choices with eye-popping colors, crazy patterns, and those quintessential Gadhafi shades.

Political groups and lawmakers from both parties are making cases that U.S. Supreme Court Justices Elena Kagan and Clarence Thomas should recuse themselves from deciding the constitutionality of President Barack Obama's health care reform law.

In America, people spend thousands of dollars to have straight teeth through orthodontics. In Japan, however, a trend has been underway for a couple of years in which crooked teeth through purposeful dental cosmetic surgery have become the rage. In Japan, the crooked teeth trend is called yaeba, or double tooth.

Mike Daisey makes a show of discovering a problem, but doesn't offer any solutions.

The University of Missouri has decided to withdraw from the Big 12 and will officially apply to join the SEC soon, according to a report.

Wikileaks, a whistle-blowing Web site known for releasing secret government files, on Monday said it is suspending its publication in order to seek funding to sustain its work. Wikileaks has been forced to shift focus toward fundraising because 95 percent of its revenue has been destroyed.

Could the Turkey earthquakes (or the 9.0 Japan quake in March of the L'Aquila, Italy quake in 2009) have been predicted in advance?

Apple is lowering prices. Why?

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation is probing the massive advisory fee paid by Japan's Olympus Corp. in its takeover of a British company, a media report said, as the firm's shares continued to slide over the scandal.

President Barack Obama this week will announce a series of actions to help the economy that will not require congressional approval, including an initiative to make it easier for homeowners to refinance their mortgages, a White House official said.

The highly anticipated biography of Steve Jobs will be available Monday, and judging by advance attention, it promises to be an all-time great tome, capable of briefly reviving the sagging hardcover book business.

Pete Seeger, the 92-year-old folk music legend, joined the Occupy Wall Street protest in the Manhattan borough of New York on Friday. Commentators called the sight powerful and beautiful.

He had often used the narrative of his parents’ escape from Communism as a compelling theme in his public speeches.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc will no longer offer health insurance to new part-time U.S. employees who work fewer than 24 hours a week and will charge workers who use tobacco more for coverage as healthcare costs rise, the company said on Friday.

Dana Anderson, who spoke at the ANA Conference Oct. 21, became a Twitter sensation after Martha Stewart tweeted that Anderson is a hidden treasure. Her speech was rife with inspirational quotes and words of wisdom, and the audience lauded her comedic genius.

Princeton University Prof. Cornel West was arrested Friday, the second time this week, at an Occupy Wall Street rally in Harlem protesting outside a police precinct against the NYPD's stop and frisk policy.

The Texas Department of Justice stopped serving weekend lunches in 36 state prisons in order to cut $2.8 million in food-related expenses.

Groupon has released details about their initial public offering in a regulatory filing, which details how the company expects to generate $478.8 million in net proceeds.

Anthony Bologna, the NYPD deputy inspector who was caught on video pepper-spraying three Occupy Wall Street protesters with no apparent provocation, will face a slap-on-the-wrist punishment: 10 days' lost vacation time and two weeks' lost pay.

Libyan tyrant Moammar Gadhafi's four-decade long rule came to an end on Thursday as the autocratic ruler was killed by Libyan rebels he once ridiculed as rats. An autocrat who was condemned for tyrannizing his own people and sponsoring terrorism out of the country, Gadhafi will be remembered not only for his cruelty, but also for being an unmatched weirdo.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo Thursday picked a Joseph Lhota, an executive at Madison Square Garden and a former top aide to Mayor Rudy Giuliani, to run one of the biggest transportation agencies in the world.

The United States, in perhaps its strongest language since the war on terrorism started 10 years ago, warned Pakistan that it would face serious consequences if it continued to tolerate safe havens for extremist organizations that kill Americans.

The New York Times Co said the number of subscribers to its flagship digital products increased in the third quarter while overall advertising revenue at the company slid sharply.

ACC commissioner John Swofford essentially ruled out the conference accepting Notre Dame at the ACC basketball media day on Wednesday.

Former Libyan Dictator Moammar Gadhafi was killed Thursday after being injured during a Libyan rebel attack near his hometown of Sirte. A new Libya is born, a rebel spokesman said.

The New York Times Company on Thursday announced a third-quarter profit of $15.7 million, buoyed by 324,000 paid subscriptions to its Web site. The online gains offset an 8.8 percent drop in ad revenue.

After 42 years, Moammar Gadhafi era is now finally complete, with the former dictator either dead or captured.