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California unveils draft cap-and-trade rules

California on Tuesday released draft rules for its landmark greenhouse gas cap-and-trade plan that will be the most ambitious U.S. effort to use the market to address global warming.

U.S. court bars promotion of stock sale tax scheme

A federal judge has barred the promotion of a scheme designed to help clients evade taxes on more than $1.25 billion in asset sales, the U.S. government said on Tuesday.

SEC wins insider case against former Fidelity trader

Federal securities regulators won an insider trading case when a jury in Boston ruled that a former Fidelity employee illegally profited from trading stocks that the mutual fund giant was buying for itself.

Congress Probes Global Warming Emails

U.S. congress has begun investigating climate scientists whose emails and documents were hacked into to see if their global warming theories have misrepresented the truth behind the cause of climate change. Investigators have begun studying the 1,079 e-mails and over 3,800 documents that were hackers stole last week from the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at East Anglia University in the U.K, Rep. Darrel Issa from California told the Wall Street Journal.

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LA attorneys distance Polanski from French lawyer

A French attorney for Roman Polanski who said the film director would not return voluntarily to the United States to face child sex charges is not authorized to speak in the case, Polanski's U.S. attorneys said on Friday.

Los Angeles gets tough on medical marijuana shops

Past the security man and his pit bull and through a haze of eye-watering smoke, two youths load up a pipe next to a row of shiny glass jars with two dozen varieties of marijuana bud displayed like candy.

Polanski will not agree to extradition: lawyer

Roman Polanski will not agree voluntarily to being extradited to the United States over a 1970s child sex case, the film director's lawyer said in an interview with French daily Le Figaro published on Friday.

Cautious optimism as job losses slow

The pace of job losses slowed in many U.S. states in October, and the unemployment rate slipped in hard-hit Michigan, the Labor Department said on Friday, hinting the recession may be easing in some areas.

Cautious optimism as job losses slow in U.S. states

A Minute With: Adam Lambert For Your Entertainment

Adam Lambert may have lost the battle to be crowned American Idol but the glam rocker with soaring vocals says he got what he wanted from the TV singing contest -- an album deal, exposure and a chance to make and present music his way.

Google says PC will start in seven seconds or less

New Google Inc software will start up a computer as fast as a television can be turned on, the search company said on Thursday as it showed off its Chrome operating system designed for PCs that do their work on the Web.

AOL shows worst not over for media job cuts

If AOL's announcement on Thursday of another 2,500 job cuts is anything to go by, the painful layoffs that have ravaged the media industry over the past year are nowhere near over.

Google PC will start in seven seconds or less

Potential users find early faults with Google Chrome OS

Google revealed more details of its Google Chrome OS on Thursday - showing how lightweight and fast it is - but early reactions from blogs, Twitter and Facebook, show that potential users are already finding problems with it.

Johnny Depp earns second sexiest man title

Johnny Depp was named People magazine's sexiest man alive for a second time on Wednesday, joining an elite club of double honorees that includes George Clooney and Brad Pitt.

Wells Fargo to repay $1.3 billion in auction-rate pact

Wells Fargo Investments LLC has agreed to repay about $1.3 billion to clients whose funds were frozen in the auction-rate securities market in the latest of a series of settlements with state securities regulators.

Wells Fargo to repay $1.3 billion to ARS clients

Wells Fargo Investments LLC has agreed to repay about $1.3 billion to clients whose funds were frozen in the auction-rate securities market in a settlement with state securities regulators, an industry association said on Wednesday.

R u wearing sunscreen? Text reminders can double usage

Texting people to remind them to wear sunscreen daily actually works, research shows.

Virtual pioneers: Macedonia schools to get wired

Practical English Grammar by Correspondence -- a 1973 tome published by the Soviet Union -- sits atop a pile of books on the librarian's desk in Macedonia's Grigor Prlichev elementary school.

Tax credit to steady, not rescue, shaky U.S. housing

Don't expect the expanded home buyer tax credit to be a permanent cure for the U.S. housing market. It won't.

Had flu? You may have H1N1 protection

People who have had repeated flu infections -- or repeated flu vaccines -- may have some protection against the new pandemic swine influenza, U.S. researchers said on Monday.

Home Depot profit beats Street

Home Depot Inc posted a higher than expected quarterly profit on Tuesday but warned that there was still a lot of pressure in the U.S. housing and home improvement markets, sending its shares lower.

CORRECTED - UPDATE 4-Lowe's profit falls, sees housing return in mid 2010

Lowe's Cos Inc , the second-largest U.S. home improvement chain, posted a 30 percent drop in quarterly profit on Monday as consumers put off big renovations while the U.S. housing market remained sluggish.

Lowe's profit falls 30 percent

Weak U.S. housing mkt weighs on Lowe's Q3 profit

Lowe's Cos Inc, the second-largest U.S. home improvement chain, posted a 30 percent drop in quarterly profit as consumers put off big renovations as the U.S. housing market remains sluggish, sending shares down 2.1 percent in premarket trading.

Gidget director Paul Wendkos dies at age 84

Director Paul Wendkos, whose career spanned 50 years and covered some 100 films and television shows including the 1959 surf movie Gidget, has died due to a lung infection that followed a stroke. He was 84.