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Republican Gov. Jan Brewer and Obama had a tense conversation as the president arrived in her home state of Arizona

David Cameron says Doha world trade talks dead and urges 'coalition of the willing' with bilateral deals between countries.

Iran is unlikely to move toward building a nuclear weapon this year because it does not yet have the capability to produce enough weapon-grade uranium, a draft report by the Institute for Science and International Security said Wednesday.

Wanted: Skilled executives willing to take over large, failing U.S. financial firms at a moment's notice.

A day after his confrontational election-year State of the Union address, President Barack Obama had a tense exchange with Arizona's Republican governor Wednesday as she greeted Air Force One in Phoenix.

With worries about the debt crisis in Europe and high unemployment in the United States drawing the public's attention, the sliding value of corporate pension funds has largely gone unnoticed.

Robby Ostberg, A 14-year-old Utah boy is dead after accidentally shooting himself in the face with a miniature toy cannon on Monday. Police in Utah are now trying figure out what caused the small 18th century replica canon to fire something into Ostberg's face.

Netflix Inc signed up more U.S. subscribers than expected in the fourth quarter, reversing a wave of defections triggered by a series of high-profile missteps last year and pushing its shares up 13 percent.

The futures regulator said on Wednesday that its spot check of major futures brokerages did not find any material breaches of protections for customer funds.

Increasing taxes on the wealthy would bring fairness to U.S. taxpayers across the board, billionaire investor Warren Buffett said on Wednesday, backing the tax reform that President Barack Obama proposed in his State of the Union address.

Below are highlights from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's news conference following the Fed's policy meeting on Wednesday.

Apple CEO Tim Cook has a problem, a $98 billion problem.

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Wednesday the central bank was ready to offer the economy additional stimulus after it announced it would likely keep interest rates near zero until at least late 2014.

Netflix Inc said on Wednesday that it expects Amazon.com Inc to brand its video streaming offering as standalone service.

Arab League monitors said the withdrawal of colleagues by Gulf Arab states would not hinder their work in Syria while France and Britain Wednesday joined efforts at the United Nations to end President Bashar al-Assad's rule.

Thirty cities accounted for half of all global commercial real estate investment from 2008 to 2011, according to a report released Wednesday.

New car sales in January continued to rise at a steady pace, according to TrueCar.com, continuing the auto industry's slow but stable recovery.

Silver is currently on a bullish cycle and the price of bullion is likely to rise from current levels around $32 per ounce to $50 and beyond this year, Swiss banking giant UBS said in a note to clients Tuesday.

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner sought to calm fears that the Obama administration's bank reforms were hostile to the U.S. financial industry, saying on Wednesday the reforms were "tough where they need to be tough."

The epic global shifts of 2011 transformed the political, economic, and social landscape from Shanghai to Sao Paolo, Washington to Cairo. No leader is safe from the vagaries of social unrest; no economy (not even China's) is unaffected by contagion from an over-leveraged, under-managed euro zone. No country is immune from the threat of asymmetric attacks - anything from a terrorist bomb to cybe...

Big profits from Apple and a promise from the Federal Reserve to keep rock-bottom rates for at least two more years powered the U.S. stock market higher on Wednesday.