Michelle Obama has reportedly invited X-Factor's One Direction, to the annual White House Easter egg hunt after being charmed by the group at the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards, according to The Sun.
A major donor to President Barack Obama's re-election effort is accused of impersonating a bank official to defraud a businessman of more than $650,000.
Wall Street advanced on Monday, the first trading day of the second quarter, as upbeat Chinese and manufacturing data overshadowed a report showing continued softness in Europe.
Today marks World Autism Awareness Day 2012, giving the disorder that affects one in 88 children greater visibility.
The Federal Trade Commission has approved the $29-billion blockbuster merger of Express Scripts, Inc. (NASDAQ: ESRX) and Medco Health Solutions Inc. (NYSE: MHS), two pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs.
The public markets showed a strong appetite for U.S. venture capital companies in the first quarter, while the pace of mergers and acquisitions activities slowed, according to Dow Jones VentureSource.
Exxon Mobil (NYSE:XOM) has confirmed its intention to freeze a controversial deal with the Kurdish government. That may lead Baghdad to let the U.S. company compete again for exploration contracts.
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (NYSE: KKR) said Monday it agreed to buy natural gas properties in Texas and Oklahoma from WPX Energy Inc. (NYSE: WPX) for $306 million, the latest in the private-equity's spate of U.S. energy acquisitions.
U.S. President Barack Obama has already warned that the window of opportunity for a diplomatic solution is rapidly closing, suggesting that a military strike on Iran may be likely at some point.
A new poll found that women voters would choose President Obama over Mitt Romney by a two-to-one margin, giving Obama a critical advantage in contested battleground states.
Stocks were little changed on Monday on the first trading day of the second quarter as data showing a modest pickup in U.S. manufacturing offset a report showing a dimmer view of factory activity in Europe.
Starbucks Corporation (NASDAQ:SBUX), the world’s largest coffee-shop chain, is planning to further tap into the massive Chinese market and triple the size of its workforce and local network of shops by 2014.
The stricken luxury cruise ship Azamara Quest docked at a port in the Malaysian town of Sandakan on Borneo island Sunday after a fire left it stranded for 24 hours.
The news comes just hours before Kofi Annan is due to brief the UN Security Council on Monday on whether he had seen progress towards peace.
Three wives and two elder daughters of Osama bin Laden have been sentenced to 45 days of jail time by a Pakistani court. They were also fined 10,000 rupees each. The women will serve just 14 more days before being deported back to their home countries.
Sometimes, on April Fools' Day, it's difficult to decipher the pranks from the truth online. One such example came from online consumer electronics retailer Tiger Direct with an elaborate advertisement for the mini nuke Kube X15, the World's First Home Mini-Nuclear Generator, which could possibly be the best, or worst, April Fools' Day prank ever.
The National Archives announced they will release detailed information on 132 million people in the 1940 U.S. Census after 72 years of confidentially expires on Monday.
He didn't mention them by name, but they seemed to be on his mind. President Barack Obama defended his healthcare reform effort on Friday without mentioning the Supreme Court justices who hold the law's fate in their hands.
Australia is looking at recruiting American workforce to solve the acute shortage of skilled labor in the country's civil engineering sector. Australia has been facing severe workforce crunch, but the relatively good economic growth has further increased the demand for the workers.
Unemployment in the euro zone reached its highest level in almost 15 years in February, with more than 17 million people out of work, and economists said they expected job office queues to grow even longer later this year.
Many tasks can be tackled more quickly now than 50 years ago, but delivering a baby naturally it seems is not one of them, according to a U.S. government study.
Producers behind the 'Kony 2012' video are planning to release a sequel Tuesday that will shift the spotlight back to the horrific war crimes that occurred in Uganda by warlord Joseph Kony.
