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United States Commerce Secretary John Bryson resigned his post this week so that the agency isn't distracted by his recent hit-and-run incident.

A driver involved in a Southern California freeway brawl that was captured on video and went viral on the internet, said he regrets getting out of his and should have called the police. Jerry Patterson, a mortgage consultant and father of three said he suffered a concussion from the incident when three brutes had attacked him on the freeway, repeatedly punching and kicking him in the head.

Route 66 hasn't been a real highway for almost three decades, but its hold on travelers' imaginations has revived motels, diners, souvenir shops, gas stations and other buildings along the iconic American byway.

Microsoft has struck again. Just a couple of days after launching the Surface tablet, the Redmond company took the wraps off the latest iteration of its mobile operating system, the Windows Phone 8, during a nightclub-themed media event in California Wednesday. With an exciting set of new features, the upcoming mobile OS has indeed managed to get the first impression of many onlookers already.

The up-and-coming rock group is just one of many bands attempting to make the

A House committee voted 23-17 to recommend citing Attorney General Eric Holder for contempt, escalating a standoff with the Obama administration and raising the possibility of an unprecedented contempt vote before the full House.

Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL), the world's most valuable technology company, has won a small victory in its battle against rival and supplier Samsung Electronics (Seoul: 005930).

Supermodel Marisa Miller might have hung up her Victoria's Secret Angel wings in 2010, but the blonde beauty has picked up another role -- mom. The 33-year-old announced on Tuesday that she is expecting her first child with record producer husband, Griffin Guess. She is due in late fall, according to Us Weekly.

The nation's largest public-sector employee union this week selects its first new leader in a generation, and its more than 3,500 delegates, representing about 1.4 million members, must decide which of two candidates is most likely to halt declining membership and shrinking benefits: the one focused on national politics or the one focused on localized activism?

Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL), the No. 1 database developer, reported full-year revenue rose 4 percent to $37.2 billion -- with revenue from the Cloud, or Internet-based computing, reaching a record $1 billion.

If contributions follow recent trends, donations to state campaigns could surpass $2 billion this year.

A new study predicts that by 2050, waters just off the western coast of the U.S. will become acidic enough such that ocean-dwelling creatures like mussels, oysters and corals won't be able to form their shells or skeletons.

Asians have replaced Hispanics as the largest demographic group emigrating to the United States, reversing a longtime trend.

A California man was rescued by authorities after his 50-foot-boat was hit by a whale as he sailed about 40 miles from the western coast of Mexico.

Here's what a nursing home in Mobile, Ala., has in common with the regal Bergdorf Goodman department store in Manhattan: They're both facing micro-unions, groups of employees who organize apart from the rest of a company's workforce.

On May 18, Facebook closed its first day as a public company at $38.23, valuing itself around $105 billion. On Tuesday at mid-day, it traded near $31.50. Still, despite the vilification of the IPO, the slumping share price and dozens of class action lawsuits filed in federal courts in New York and California, Facebook, a damaged brand, has followed the advice of New York image guru Clive Chajet who said it should ignore the press and stick to its knitting.

California police confiscated marijuana plants and pitchfork and hoe as evidence from Rodney King's home as they try to determine how he died.

Wildfires continue to tax firefighters in the western part of the nation as 10 new large wildfires were reported Sunday.

The first thing thousands of international delegates headed to the G-20 summit will likely see as they land in Los Cabos, Mexico, this week will be the spiny bush-clad hills and azure waters that typify southern Baja California.

In a victory for environmentalists, Mexican President Felipe Calderon on Friday canceled the construction of a planned resort in Baja California.

Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), the world's biggest software company, introduced its first tablet, Surface, to battle Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) in the tablet sector