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A Twitter blackout aimed at protesting censorship on the social media site is sweeping the web as its proponents urge users to go dark Saturday using the hash tag #TwitterBlackout.

The majority of real estate investment trusts (REITs) are expected to post positive earnings for the fourth quarter and fiscal year 2011 as rent growth continues, according to analysts.

Fran Drescher recently seriously claimed in an interview that both she and her husband Peter Marc Jacobson were abducted by aliens in junior high. Here are some celebrities who believe they were abducted by aliens or just simply believe that extraterrestrials exist.

Howls of despair over the impending cyberpocalypse of hackers taking over people's mobile devices have yet to match the actual numbers of people getting attacked, but there are ways to make sure you're device is protected. Many people do carry extra-sensative information around on their smartphones, so they can be tempting for would be hackers. Here's how to protect yourself from an attack or at least stop an attack if it's already in progress.

The former Florida governor said the harsh anti-immigration rhetoric spouted by Republicans this election season is a turn off to Hispanic voters.

European shares ended down on Friday as disappointing U.S. economic data prompted investors to cash in January's gains, dragging the blue-chip index to its first weekly loss since mid-December.

Gold prices posted a modest gain Friday, capping a three-day rally as well as a week in which the yellow metal jumped 4.15 percent.

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder Friday announced the formation of a task force focused on probing residential mortgage-backed securities following President Barack Obama's call for a unit to probe the finance industry's conduct leading up to the financial crisis.

The majority of U.S. registered voters would vote out every single member of Congress if they could, according to an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released Friday.

Facebook could file papers for an initial public offering, or, IPO, as early as Wednesday. Estimates of its valuation are in the range of $75 billion to $100 billion. Morgan Stanley may be lead underwriter.

A day after Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer approached President Barack Obama on an airport tarmac, setting off an acrimonious exchange that made national headlines, she has released the letter she handed to the president.

Though Police Commissioner Ray Kelly remains in hot water after news broke that the police department had been showing an anti-Muslim film to hundreds of officers, critics' calls for him to resign probably won't be fulfilled.

The U.S. economy grew at its fastest pace in 1-1/2 years in the fourth quarter, but a rebuilding of stocks by businesses and slower business spending warned of weaker growth in early 2012.

The world's biggest hedge fund Bridgewater Associates posted returns of 23 percent in 2011, in a year when most of its peers underperformed the major stock market indexes, the New York Times reported, citing people familiar with the firm's investment strategy.

Jon Rubinstein, who was instrumental in crafting Apple Inc.'s iPod music player, has left Hewlett Packard Co. after two years on the job there.

Andrew Robert Levene, an American man accused of murdering a jewelry store owner in Connecticut and stealing $300,000 in diamonds was found dead in his prison cell in Spain, U.S. authorities said.

The world of international finance is largely incomprehensible, even to its practitioners. Consequently, a whole industry, of which I am personally part, has sprung up to explain finance to the public. This makes the public think that understanding finance is something that is possible.

France's telecom regulator will carry out an inspection of the network of mobile operator Iliad , in a bid to address accusations levied by its competitors that the new entrant's infrastructure was not operational.

The video shows the pair recording Give Me All Your Luvin.'

President Barack Obama made natural gas a central part of the energy plan he detailed in his State of the Union address, taking a firm stance in a highly polarized debate about the method for extracting the fuel.

Newt Gingrich is the Republican establishment's worst nightmare -- and not because they disagree with his positions.