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Not everyone is convinced that Perry will actually come out ahead at the end of this long race.

A judge received a seven-page letter from Jamaican drug lord Christopher 'Dudus' Coke asking for leniency after pleading guilty to racketeering and assault charges in August.

A former Giants linebacker told a radio station on Wednesday that New York Giants defensive coordinator Perry Fewell coaches his players to fake injuries.

R.E.M. bid adieu to its fans after three decades of delivering extraordinary music.

David Freese's hot bat boosted the St Louis's playoff hopes as his five RBIs led the Cardinals to a 6-5 win over the New York Mets on Wednesday.

The New York Yankees clinched the American League East to enter Major League Baseball's postseason for the 16th time in the last 17 years with a doubleheader sweep of the Tampa Bay Rays on Wednesday.

New York Giants Pro Bowl defensive end Justin Tuck said he was haunted by a nightmarish loss last year to the Philadelphia Eagles and yearns to make amends in their National Football League rematch this Sunday.

Talk is cheap that the U.S. is merely in slow-growth mode more than two years after the official end to the recession, says Nouriel Roubini, the New York University professor who predicted the collapse of the U.S. housing market and predicted the 2008 recession.

Gold prices plummeted more than 3 percent Thursday after the Federal Reserve pronounced the economy seriously ill but then prescribed what many traders and analysts saw as a virtual aspirin.

FBR Capital Markets anticipates that Congress will be unable to pass legislation to lower the loan limits below $625,500 until at least 2013, and expects that it could be even longer.

Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc is unlikely to meet third-quarter sales estimates because of a strike at its vast Grasberg mine in Indonesia.

North Korea wants a second round of dialogue with the United States, possibly next month, as part of renewed efforts to restart talks on disabling the its nuclear weapons program, a South Korean official said Thursday.

Singing superstar Lada Gaga has utilized her following on Twitter to advocate for laws banning bullying after the suicide of Jamey Rodemeyer.

A 14-year-old upstate New Yorker, Jamey Rodemeyer, was found dead outside his home this week, apparently the latest string of teenage suicides in the U.S. caused by mental harassment and bullying over sexuality, police said.

Singing superstar Lada Gaga has utilized her following on Twitter to advocate for laws banning bullying after the suicide of Jamey Rodemeyer.

The state of Georgia Wednesday night executed Troy Davis, who was convicted of killing a Savannah police officer 22 years ago, after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a last-minute appeal for a stay.

Young adults are gaining health insurance faster than ever, mostly due to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

New York City police have still not found Shanel Nadal, the woman who kidnapped her eight children from a child agency during a supervised visit on Monday.

A U.S. judge set a February 13 start for a trial over whether AT&T Inc can buy rival T-Mobile USA, a compromise between the companies' desire for a quick resolution and the Justice Department's request for more time to prepare its case.

The New York Yankees clinched a berth in the Major League Baseball postseason for the 16th time in the last 17 years with a 4-2 comeback victory over the Tampa Bay Rays on Wednesday.

Jamey Rodemeyer, a gay teen victim of bullying, committed suicide this weekend, according to his parents, days before the first ever DOE national summit against bullying.