UNITED STATES

The president has accepted Lawrence Summers’ decision to withdraw from consideration as Federal Reserve chairman.

Bank-sponsored events are off the agenda as Summers’ waits to see if he’ll be nominated as the next Fed chief.

The sermon that were the last words four little girls heard 50 years ago Sunday is delivered at somber ceremony.

The U.S. president will tout gains of 7.5 million jobs since early 2010. Great, but the U.S. lost 8.7 million.

According to the official PlayStation Twitter account, purchasers of the downloadable version of "Grand Theft Auto 5" will have to wait until midnight EDT on Sept. 17 to begin downloading "GTA 5."

As Iran and Britain plan to mend wounds, U.S. President Obama says he has communicated with Iran’s new leader.

The annual Miss America 2014 pageant will air on ABC life from Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, N.J. on Sunday, Sept. 15 at 9 p.m. EST.

Sens. Robert Menendez and Roy Blunt appeared on "Meet The Press" to discuss the potential consequences of action against Syria. Watch the interview here.

The deal to decommission Syrian chemical weapons has been hailed a win-win-win. The losers: Syrian civilians.

A Cabinet official thanks "our Russian friends" for forestalling a U.S. attack.

The chief minister of the state of Gujarat is a polarizing figure in India, a magnet for criticism over his role in 2002 communal riots.

Baloch militancy remains an intractable problem for Pakistan’s government and a continuing threat to hopes for economic prosperity in the region.

As Barclays put it, next week may be the beginning of the end of “abnormalnomics.”

De Blasio not only grabbed 40% of the NYC mayoral primary vote - he even snared more black voters than the lone African-American candidate.

The U.N. has overwhelming evidence that chemical weapons were used in Aug. 21 attack in Damascus, Syria.

The U.S. and Russia on have agreed on a proposal to identify and destroy Syria’s chemical-weapons stockpile by mid-2014.

How does one man’s daydream about ballerinas become haute couture? IBTimes goes behind the scenes with Zang Toi as he prepares his designs.

Five years after excessively risky behavior brought Lehman Brothers down, the company survives as a ghost of its former self.

Lee Harvey Oswald was aiming for Texas Gov. John Connally, not U.S. President John F. Kennedy, according to a new book.

In the age of cell-phone cameras and YouTube, it’s becoming more difficult for political candidates to recover from controversial remarks.

Panama has joined Colombia, Costa Rica And Jamaica in a quarrel over regional waters in the Caribbean Sea.