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A U.S. judge will allow the bulk of Oracle Corp's copyright infringement claims against Google Inc over the Java programing language, according to a court ruling on Thursday.

The royal wedding of Britain's Prince William and Kate Middleton this spring was one for the history books -- and the record books, too.

Gold and silver prices moved higher late Thursday after posting big losses in the New York futures market.

With UBS losing approximately $2 billion from unauthorized trades by a "rogue" trader, the road for recovery for the Swiss bank could be long.

The Joint Commission has released its 2010 list of top-performing U.S. hospitals.

Thursday's move by major central banks to prevent a worsening of the European sovereign debt crisis unleashed a flurry of protective put selling across a broad spectrum of U.S. exchange-traded funds.

House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, on Thursday wasn't bashful and certainly wasn't partisan about what he thinks Congress' bipartisan super committee, tasked with finding $1.5 trillion in additional deficit reduction, should do to achieve that goal.

United Parcel Service Inc Chief Executive Scott Davis said the world's largest package delivery company is on track for record results this year in the face of the economy's bumpy ride and expectations for sluggish economic growth.

JPMorgan Chase & Co was sued by Wells Fargo & Co , which seeks to force it to buy back more than 800 soured mortgage loans that it oversees as trustee.

Two bioethics professors are offering a $10,000 reward to anyone who shows them medical records proving Michele Bachmann's claim that the HPV vaccine made a girl mentally retarded.

The government of Australia announced on Thursday that it will now offer three gender options for passports, M, F, and X.

Glen Rice thought Sarah Palin was a sweetheart and respectful, according to a new book that alleges the former basketball player and the former Alaskan governor had a one-time fling.

United Parcel Service Chief Executive Scott Davis said the world's largest package delivery company is on track for record results this year even in the face of the economy's bumpy ride.

New Jersey's Fort Monmouth, known for advances in communication and military technology, will close its doors for the last time Thursday and move its workers to Ohio and Maryland.

A Texas college student has singlehandedly subverted the premise of American Apparel's self-congratulatory foray into plus-sized merchandise -- which the retail chain defines as sizes 12 and 14.

A Mexican drug gang this week issued a threat to websites that cover the drug war in a message placed near two mutilated bodies suspended from an overpass near the U.S. border.

House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, Thursday wasn't bashful and certainly wasn't partisan about what he thinks Congress' bipartisan super committee, tasked with finding $1.5 trillion in additional deficit reduction, should do to achieve that goal.

British Army Major General Tim Evans, who heads the International Security Assistance Force Joint Command in Afghanistan, said that the insurgent group had planned a large-scale attack on the country, but NATO forces stopped it.

Internal strife at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission over how to craft a workable rule to crack down on speculation in oil markets has prompted two internal whistleblowers to ask the agency's inspector general to step in.

The Canadian government declined to say on Wednesday whether it was preparing legislation to head off another strike at Air Canada, the country's biggest airline.

Between 2009 and 2010, the percentage of Asian-Americans living in poverty actually edged down to 12.1 percent from 12.5 percent.