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Ron Paul is airing an anti-abortion ad in Iowa in the hopes of courting social conservatives ahead of the first caucus in the nation.

The budget gap widened slightly in fiscal 2011, staying above $1 trillion for a third straight year and providing fodder for a political battle over taxes and spending ahead of next year's presidential election.

Rapper Rick Ross suffered a seizure and became unconscious for an unclear amount of time on a plane Friday, forcing the pilot to make an emergency landing so that Ross could receive CPR, TMZ reports.

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Stocks scored their first back-to-back weekly gains since early July on Friday, on strong Google earnings and as investors kept riding waves of optimism for a solution to the euro-zone debt crisis.

Mitt Romney's campaign raised more than $14 million in the third quarter, signaling that the Republican U.S. presidential hopeful's fund-raising remains robust despite big swings in opinion polls.

Prosecutors will seek the death penalty for Scott Evans Dekraai, the suspect in a shooting at a California hair salon that killed eight people.

Europe and the G20 leading economies must act decisively and quickly to avoid another full-scale world recession, Prime Minister Stephen Harper warned on Thursday.

President Barack Obama raised $70 million for his re-election campaign in the third quarter of 2011 -- $16 million less than he reported in the second quarter, but substantially more than any of his Republican challengers.

U.S. stocks advanced on Friday, putting the S&P 500 on track for back-to-back weekly gains for the first time since early July after better-than-expected retail sales and results from Google .

Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry outlined plans on Friday to dramatically increase energy production and create 1.2 million jobs, taking aim at federal regulations he said are strangling the economy.

A U.S. judge said that Samsung Electronic's Galaxy tablets infringe Apple Inc's iPad patents, but added that Apple has a problem establishing the validity of its patents in the latest courtroom face-off between the technology giants.

A California man was charged with eight counts of first-degree murder on Friday in a shooting spree at Seal Beach hair salon that killed his ex-wife and seven other people, prosecutors said.

Stocks advanced on Friday, putting the S&P 500 on track for back-to-back weekly gains for the first time since early July after better-than-expected retail sales and results from Google .

In a sign of shifting power inside Fidelity Investments, Chairman Edward C. Johnson III has relinquished a central role, giving his daughter Abigail Johnson the title of chairman of the company's flagship mutual fund business.

Samsung Electronics said on Friday that it planned to unveil a new smartphone based on Google's latest version of the Android operating system at an event in Hong Kong on Oct. 19.

China's consumer inflation dipped to 6.1 percent in September, retreating further from three-year highs, although stubborn food price pressures will deter the central bank from loosening its policy reins anytime soon.

A Dutch court on Friday turned down Samsung Electronics' request for an injunction against all of Apple's mobile products that use 3G telecommunications technology, denying it revenge over a similar move by Apple.The two technology giants have been lo

Apple Inc's new iPhone went on sale in stores across the globe on Friday, prompting thousands to queue around city blocks to snap up the final gadget unveiled during Steve Jobs' life.

The two biggest U.S. companies in the video game industry are preparing for a gunfight.

Republican lawmakers on Wednesday attacked an Obama administration proposal for limiting food advertising to children even as the team behind the plan offered concessions to food and beverage makers.

Thursday's cancellation of the Hulu auction had less to do with the $2 billion sale price and more to do with a shift in strategic perspective among the owners.

Alec Baldwin can’t make up his mind. The “30 Rock” actor, who just announced he is launching a podcast on New York’s WNYC, has been airing spots on public radio since last fall telling them not to give to public radio.

The National Association of Theater Owners (NATO) announced Friday that it has elected four new officers, including a new chairman and vice-chairperson.

Manchester United skipper Nemanja Vidic has been handed the task of deciding whether he is fit enough to face arch-rivals Liverpool on Saturday in the Premier League.

G20 ministers should not focus on increasing the International Monetary Fund's resources and should instead keep the pressure on Europe to resolve its debt crisis, Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said on Friday.

Big U.S. Internet computing companies should outshine their plainer PC cousins when earnings season kicks off next week, as corporations and fast-growing Web players dramatically accelerate their pace of hardware spending.

Rupert Murdoch's multi-million dollar campaign to win back the hearts and minds of News Corporation's independent investors suffered a new blow on Friday after another key shareholder group called for his eviction from its board.