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Alcoa Inc., the U.S. aluminum giant, said Thursday it will reduce its annual total alumina production capacity by 2 percent this year, aimed at matching output with its plans to reduce smelter capacity amid global oversupply that has hurt prices.

Mitt Romney got an influential endorsement of his immigration views on Tuesday, winning plaudits from a former Arizona lawmaker who sponsored the state's tough 2010 immigration law.

Those lyrics are from the most patriotic American anthem of the last half-century, Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA.” Ronald Reagan played the song the year it came out, at the 1984 Republican convention, and it gained iconic status after the 9/11 atrocities.

U.S. courts have authority to decide whether President Barack Obama's healthcare law is valid under the Constitution, his attorney general told a federal court on Thursday in a further bid to defuse a controversy Obama ignited earlier this week.

Since October, estimates for first-quarter earnings growth have tumbled while the S&P 500 has surged. With the earnings season starting next week, the outlook is not as sunny as in previous quarters.

Rumors are flying about Kanye West and Kim Kardashian. While some reports say the two are dating, other reports said that they have been together since Kardashian's ill-fated 72-day marriage to New York Nets forward Kris Humphries.

Stock futures closed lower on Friday in brief, holiday-thinned trading after a much weaker-than-expected report on U.S. job growth for March.

Stock futures on U.S. indexes, which stopped trading at 9:15 a.m. EDT because of the Good Friday holiday, plunged after the Labor Department reported weaker-than-expected jobs numbers for March.

An Iraqi woman, who was thought to be a victim of a hate crime that occurred in southern California, might have been killed by her own family members.

Payrolls rose far less than expected in March, keeping the door open for further monetary policy support from the Federal Reserve, even as the unemployment rate fell to a three-year low of 8.2 percent.

A ghost ship that has been adrift since the tsunami struck Japan last year, has been shot up and sunken by U.S. Coast Guard cannon fire.

The Finnish phone maker is all set to kick-off the launch of its biggest bet - Nokia Lumia 900 -- in an event later today at New Yourk Times Square.

U.S. employers hired 120,000 workers in March, well below economists' forecast, and the smallest gain since October, signaling the economy could be losing momentum.

Verizon Wireless announced Thursday that it would expand its 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) network in Greater Columbus on April 19.

A US Coast Guard cutter used cannon fire Thursday to sink a Japanese fishing vessel that got washed out to sea by the March 11 tsunami. The Ryou-Un Maru was sunken 180 miles west of the US and Canadian borders off Southeast Alaskan coast.

Seventy eight year old Malawi President Mutharika died after a heart attack.

A press release got published on Yahoo, claiming that an untethered jailbreak of iOS 5.1 has been released. Users must note that this iOS 5.1 untethered jailbreak claim is nothing but a scam. Here's what you need to know.

The pink slime scandal has gripped Americans who are disgusted about the use of ammonia in ground beef, but ammonia is also used in the production of many other foods including cheese, chocolate, baked goods and more.

Where to watch the Davis Cup quarterfinals.

HTC One X has plunged a stiff competition for the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S3 super smartphone. The quad-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor clocked Android device was announced at the Mobile World Congress 2012 in Barcelona in February and since then it has been getting a lot of attention for being a serious threat to Samsung's next best addition

A monthly gauge of online labor demand in the United States held steady in March, with transportation and retail registering strong growth, the operator of a job search website said on Friday.