Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain on Wednesday said voters in the African American community have been brainwashed into not being open-minded, not even considering a conservative point of view.
The Obama administration petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to decide on the constitutionality of requiring most Americans to buy health insurance. But he also offered them an option to avoid making that decision.
The Dow and S&P 500 rose on Thursday on stronger-than-expected economic data and German lawmakers' approval of new powers for the euro zone's crisis fund, while weakness in big-cap Internet names weighing on the Nasdaq.
Amid a sluggish U.S. economy with inadequate job growth, there has been one unabashed bright spot: home mortgage interest rates, currently about 4.10 percent for a 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage, are the lowest in decades. Is now a good time to take the plunge a purchase a home?
In December, the U.S. Department of Energy learned that Solyndra was violating its federal loan deal, technically defaulting on its $535 million loan; the department, however, changed the loan terms in order for the solar company to continue receiving taxpayer funds, federal officials confirmed Wednesday.
Stocks rose on Thursday on stronger-than-expected economic data and German lawmakers' approval of new powers for the euro zone's crisis fund.
Investors are entering the fourth quarter with a slightly raised exposure to shares and holding high reserves of cash that could quickly be used to fuel a stock rally, Reuters polls showed on Thursday.
From tuk-tuks to sled dogs and over-packed trains, people will do anything to get around. What may seem unusual to one person is completely normal to another. Have a look at the odd ways people travel across the globe.
H&R Block Inc said it would discontinue service under its EXPRESSTAX brand, as it focuses on its core tax-preparing brand and services.
T-Mobile USA has become the latest mobile provider opposing Apple's
bid to stop Samsung Electronics Co <005930.KS> from selling some Galaxy products in the United States, according to a court filing.Gold prices rose on Thursday in choppy trade, with strong physical demand and gains in the euro lending support, but investors remained cautious towards the precious metal after this month's intense volatility.
The group that oversees the power grid serving the Western United States has requested potentially sensitive market information as it investigates the Sept. 8 power outage that left 7 million people in the dark in California and Arizona, the California grid operator said on Wednesday.
China has embarked on a plan to launch a new space lab on Thursday beginning with the lift off of its 8.5-ton Tiangong-1 space module. Developing nations across the world are launching space and science research that could put them on the path to charting their own future.
Tiger Woods will not be the star of the show when he joins the United States team for November's Presidents Cup, three-time Masters champion and former world number one Nick Faldo said on Thursday.
Financial stocks are particularly buoyant -- Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) is up 5.2 percent.
A photo tribute to the couple caught in the middle of a cheating rumor.
The number of Americans claiming new unemployment benefits fell to a five-month low last week, while the economy grew slightly more than previously reported in the second quarter, the latest suggestion a recession was not in the cards.
Two economic reports released Thursday may give encouragement to the U.S. stock market's bull, or those who calculate the market is headed higher -- initial jobless claims plunged 37,000 to 391,000 last week and U.S. GDP in second quarter was revised slightly higher, to 1.3 percent from 1.0 percent.
Those worried about getting hit by NASA's defunct Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) can breathe a sigh of relief. The satellite fell into the Pacific Ocean sometime between 11:23pm Friday and 1:09am Eastern Saturday morning, Sept 23.
The Occupy Wall Street protesters are angry.
Environmental Protection Agency circumvented a more robust review process when it produced a key scientific document underpinning its decision to regulate climate-changing pollution according to an internal government watchdog.
American student Amanda Knox was a naive young woman publicly crucified and impaled to justify wrongly imprisoning her for murder, her lawyer told an Italian court on Thursday.
