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Navy SEALs film to hit theaters, probably in early 2012.

The Gay Marriage Bill is still priority on the agenda of the New York State Senate, which met till late Thursday night to come closer to a conclusions on the believed to be pivotal bill for the national Lesbian, Gay, Bi- and Transsexual movement.

U.S. Federal Trade Commission will issue subpoenas to Google and other companies as part of an investigation into practices in Google's search engine business.

Apple Inc has filed a lawsuit in South Korea, claiming Samsung Electronics Co Ltd infringed upon several patents, a court official said on Friday, in the companies' latest legal tussle over smartphone and tablet devices.

The top after-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: Sify Technologies, Vitacost.com, Entropic Communications, Oncothyreon, Globus Maritime, Research In Motion, and Apple. The top after-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: Micron Technology, Conns, MicroStrategy, Republic Airways Holdings, and Oracle.

Two men who planned to attack a military processing center in Seattle using machine guns and grenades were arrested by the federal law enforcement officers on Wednesday.

Two massive earthquakes hit Alaska's remote Aleutian Islands later afternoon on Thursday.

HSBC Holdings PLC will have to wait until the end of July to hear whether or not a U.S. judge allows the Madoff firm trustee to proceed with a $9 billion lawsuit accusing the bank of enabling the massive fraud.

Trouble with new technologies including a clunky control system for its radios pounded Ford Motor Co's ranking in a closely watched quality ranking, just a year after the U.S. brand led its mass-market rivals.

Chrysler Group LLC is aggressively exploring the possibility of building more vehicles in China, where the company is on track to sell 40,000 cars and trucks this year, an executive said on Thursday.

Children as young as eight years old are invited to Las Vegas this summer to learn that it's cool to be a hacker -- provided they don't cheat, steal or commit other crimes.

Ben Bernanke used his second-ever news conference on Wednesday to teach the world's financial markets a lot more about the thinking at the Federal Reserve than they could glean from its usual statements.

Google, Inc. faces the real threat of an anti trust probe by the Federal Trade Commission, which is still pending, but likely to be launched soon according to reports, letting the company step into the shoes of software giant Microsoft in the 1990's.

U.S. sales of sweet crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve will have a base price of $112.79 a barrel, a spokeswoman for the SPR said on Thursday.

The Mexican Federal Police captured Jose de Jesus Mendez Vargas, leader and founder of the criminal organization The Family (La Familia) in the state of Aguascalientes on Wednesday, the Ministry of Public Security said.

According to the latest data released by the U.S. Census Bureau, a startling picture of California is unveiled. The number of hetero married couples raising kids has been declined 10% over the last ten years while currently it is at 23%. Over a quarter of heterosexual married households are without a child and yet nearly a quarter of same-sex couples have kids in their households!

Ryan Dunn, best known for his involvement in the 'Jackass' series, was killed in a car crash early Monday as he sped along a Pennsylvania highway and had exceeded the legal blood alcohol limit.

Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos has begun the massive construction of a clock that will run for 10,000 years.

NATO said Thursday one of its websites was the subject of a probable data breach, but it did not contain any classified data.

Discover Financial Services said quarterly profit more than doubled, beating expectations, as customers spent more on their credit cards and the company started to reap the benefits of its expansion beyond credit card lending.

NYSE Euronext and Deutsche Boerse AG agreed to pay roughly $900 million of dividends to settle U.S. shareholder lawsuits challenging their roughly $10 billion merger to create the world's largest exchange operator.