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Is $99 a magic figure, especially for a tablet computer? Several months ago, Hewlett-Packard company sold its WebOS-based tablet HP TouchPad with the price of $99 in a firesale (and it did sell like hot cakes). And now, reports say the HP TouchPad will hit the shelves again this weekend and will carry the same price tag - $99.

A family in Overland Park has been harassed by many people and by the police since the disappearance of baby Lisa.

Stargazers in Australia, Asia, and North America will have the best view of the total lunar eclipse that should be happening on Saturday, when the Earth will cast its shadow over the moon.

The budding rivalry between currently surging Newt Gingrich and former front-runner Mitt Romney will take center stage on Saturday in the first of two Republican presidential debates in Iowa over the next five days.

A newly discovered portrait of Spanish painter Diego Velazquez was sold to a U.S. gallery - Alfred Bader Fine Arts of Milwaukee - at a price of $4.6 million by auction house Bonhams.

Despite some recent signs the sluggish U.S. economy might be improving, President Barack Obama warns it could be years before the country is on a sound footing in an interview with CBS' 60 Minutes program that will air Sunday,

The deputy commander of the Pakistan Taliban, who have been waging a four-year war against the government in Islamabad, confirmed the two sides were in peace talks, a move that could further fray the U.S.-Pakistan relationship.

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's opponents hope to bring large numbers of people out onto the streets across Russia on Saturday for rallies that will test their ability to channel outrage over allegations of election fraud into a powerful protest movement.

The crash of a CIA drone in Iran has brought into the open what U.S. intelligence agencies would prefer to have kept secret: intense spying efforts in a country where the United States has no official presence.

Already battered by corruption scandals, and less than a week after an embarrassing policy U-turn, the government admitted on Friday that it had accidentally inflated this year's export figures by more than $9 billion.

Democratic and Republican lawmakers skirmished on Friday over plans to extend a payroll-tax cut seen as crucial to a fragile U.S. economic recovery, but aides predicted a last-minute deal.

As a former MF Global Holdings Ltd. CEO prepared to testify last week before a U.S. congressional committee about missing customer money, one independent broker attempted to restore customer confidence in the futures market by publishing exactly where it is holding its clients' collateral.

The eagerly anticipated Samsung Galaxy Nexus should be on sale, on Verizon's networks in the U.S., soon. However, the precise release date has yet to be confirmed. According to rumors, this could either be Dec. 13 or Dec. 15.

On top of Eurozone debt troubles, Wall Street now has to worry about sagging sales from Europe as a recession in the region appears more likely than it has previously.

On top of euro zone debt troubles, Wall Street now has to worry about sagging sales from Europe as a recession in the region seems more likely.

Russia and the United States are planning a regular exchange on technical threats that appear to come from computers in each other's territories, a White House spokeswoman said on Friday, even as bilateral ties have come under growing strains.

A sellout crowd of about 9,100 is expected at Walter E. Washington Convention Center in the U.S. capital as Washington native and top contender Lamont Peterson faces junior welterweight champion Amir Khan on Saturday night. Khan is heavily favored.

The man who shot dead a campus police officer at Virginia Tech on Thursday before killing himself was a student at a nearby university who had stolen an SUV at gunpoint the day before, officials said.

This will be a rare event not to miss for those living in the western third of the U.S. -- a total lunar eclipse on Saturday that's the last one the United States will see for almost three years.

The Amazon Price Check app seems simple enough. Shoppers use the app, introduced earlier in 2011, to compare the retail giant's prices with other retailers. They scan a barcode, snap a picture, say the product name or type the search.

The release date of the highly anticipated Android 4.0 smartphone Samsung Galaxy Nexus via Verizon Wireless in the U.S. market is creating as much buzz as the launch of the Apple iPhone 4S did. And the latest buzz is that the Ice Cream Sandwich phone will hit stores Dec. 15.