In a company e-mail Brent Bozell, the president and founder of MRC, allegedly asked employees to refrain from taking advantage of their contraception coverage until he can remove it from the company plan.
More people may have been infected with bird flu than previously thought, making the disease more common and less deadly than previously estimated
Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich lambasted President Barack Obama for apologizing about the alleged burning of Korans and other sacred texts at a U.S. military base in Afghanistan.
Online and mail-order video company Netflix has no plans to bring its streaming service to Research In Motion's PlayBook tablet.
A closely watched index of U.S. consumer sentiment narrowly beat market expectations Friday morning, as the continuing optimism about where the economy is going was reflected in the data.
President Barack Obama sought to ease Americans' anxiety about rising gas prices, defending his administration's energy policy as more robust than those offered by the Republicans vying to replace him.
Seven al-Shabab militants were reportedly killed during an overnight airstrike in southern Somalia.
The prestigious California-based Pacific Institute climate research group has launched an investigation of its president and founder, Peter Gleick, after he admitted fraudulently obtaining documents from global warming skeptics challenging his work.
Neutrinos which appeared to have undermined a basic law of the universe by exceeding the speed of light might have done so even faster than first thought - or might not have done it at all, physicists in Italy said on Thursday.
HSBC Global Connections is bullish on international business and sees some hot ideas for U.S. exporters for 2012 and beyond.
New single-family home sales fell in January, but an upward revision to the prior months' data and a drop in the supply of properties on the market added to growing signs of a budding recovery in the housing sector.
Afghan protests over the burning of Qurans on a U.S. military base left 12 dead, making Friday the bloodiest day of demonstrations so far. Around 4000 protestors marched on the governor of Khost's compound, while in Nangarhar province thousands more chanted Death to America.
January sales of new single-family homes in the U.S. declined 0.9 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 321,000, but December sales were revised upward, suggesting a nascent housing market recovery.
A Chinese firm trying to stop Apple Inc from using the iPad name in China has launched an attack on the consumer electronics giant's home turf, filing a lawsuit in California that accuses it of employing deception when it bought the trademark.
California law enforcement officers can continue collecting DNA samples from adults arrested for felonies, a federal appeals court ruled.
TORONTO, Feb. 23 -- Muslim countries are overthrowing fundamentalist rulers and the United States could have a Mormon presidential candidate as religion keeps a firm, inevitable foot in politics.
While Mexico grapples with relentless drug-related violence, a group of Mexican scientists is working on a vaccine that could reduce addiction to one of the world's most notorious narcotics: heroin.
Super PACs are new in this election season, but the term is popping up everywhere in politics. That's because these deep-pocketed fan-clubs have become a major force the race for the Republican presidential nomination.
Earlier in February, the media reported that the U.S. Air Force wanted to buy thousands of Apple iPad tablets to replace the conventional flight bags carried by pilots. Nobody knows the exact number of iPads, the U.S. Air Force wanted to buy. Some say that the figure is 3,000. But to replace the flight bag of all the pilots in U.S. Air Force, 18,000 is still a small figure. That means a big business for Apple.
Five new developments in the ongoing situation in Syria, including the potential arming of the Free Syrian Army and attempts at peace.
Stock index futures pointed to a slightly higher open on Friday and looked to extend gains that have taken equities to highs not seen since before the 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers.
Stock index futures pointed to a slightly higher open on Friday and looked to extend gains that have taken equities to highs not seen since before the 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers.
