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American children's well-being have improved in education and health despite the recent economic downturn. However, between 2005 and 2010, 2.4 million more children were living in families and more parents are finding it hard to get steady employment.

Shares of The Boeing Company (NYSE:BA) soared Wednesday after it said Mexico's Aeroméxico will buy as many as 100 single- and twin-aisle airplanes in a deal with a nominal value of $10.8 billion.

This time, China's bid is unlikely to be blocked by the government, as its attempted takeover of Unocal was seven years ago

Sunshine Heart, Arm Holdings, Seadrill Ltd, Qiagen NV, Johnson & Johnson, Netflix, Apple Inc, LivePerson and Deutsche Bank AG are among the companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trading Wednesday.

Fourteen people died in a truck that veered off a South Texas Highway after hitting a tree on Sunday evening. The truck was carrying 23 people, alleged illegeal immegrants, 11 of whom died on the stop and three died later in the area hospital. The remaining nine were injured. Two children were among the dead.

The War on Drugs has been in overwhelming failure -- even the Global Commission on Drug Policy says fundamental reforms in national and global drug control policies are urgently needed -- but what are our presidential candidates willing to do about it? Leading up to November's 2012 election, former governor Gary Johnson asks why America doesn't apply what it learned about prohibition of alcohol in the 20s to prohibition of marijuana in the new millennium.

Friday Night Lights alum Minka Kelly is used to getting down and dirty on-screen, but there is reportedly one filmed experience she doesn't want getting out - a sex tape! According to TMZ, Kelly is the latest star to be troubled by a pesky sex tape.

China's giant oil and gas conglomerate Cnooc Ltd. said Monday it will pay $15.1 billion in cash for Canadian oil and gas company Nexen Incorporated (NYSE: NXY), among whose assets are large oil sands and shale gas properties.

The Dark Knight Rises is the third installment of Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy, and it was initially expected to break the opening weekend box-office record of $207.4 million set by The Avengers. This kind of performance would appear unlikely now.

In the old days of Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), the party of President-elect Enrique Pena Nieto, a systemic culture of government corruption ensured that the drug cartels would be more or less left alone in exchange for hefty bribes at multiple levels, and as the drugs flowed north into the U.S. there was relatively little violence.

The Roman Catholic Church and other large religious organizations in the U.S. have experienced flat or even falling memberships, while the number of Americans who report being atheist, agnostic, or believing in nothing in particular has risen to almost one-fifth of the country's population.

NASA's High Resolution Coronal Imager (Hi-C) telescope recently captured, what the agency claimed, the highest-resolution images ever taken of the sun's million-degree atmosphere called the corona.

As U.S. President Barack Obama shifts the focus of his re-election campaign from joblessness to income inequality, unemployment has increased in more than one-half the country's states this year.

Baker Hughes Inc (NYSE: BHI), one of the world's largest oil services companies, is expected to report a slight decrease in profit for the second quarter on weakness in the company's North American business.

Rumors had been circulating that the marriage of longtime Hollywood couple Antonio Banderas and Melanie Griffith is on the rocks, with the actress being seen without her wedding ring. But the Desperado star is working his charm, and it appears Banderas and Griffith may not be headed for divorce after all.

The Socialist French President has fallen out of favor with the well-to-do crowd. They're fleeing the country to escape a new tax system that threatens to dig deep into their assets.

High nominal and real interest rates can be found in the Latin American short-term fixed income markets

Using equipment supplied by Chinese electronics giants Huawei Technologies and ZTE corporation, the People's Liberation Army and the government have back door access to a vast majority of the world's electronic information, including sensitive military and intelligence data, Michael Maloof claims.

Savages is a return to form for Oliver Stone, who reminds us of his Natural Born Killers days in this viscious film about love, drug cartels and consequences.

Though former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has said she has no interest in being vice president, reports have surfaced that she is the front runner on Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's ticket.

The study, conducted by Sony Electronics and Nielsen television research, measured the most impactful moments in TV history based on participants' recollections of televised events. The results were compiled through an online survey of 1,077 adults selected at random by Nielsen, the company that measures TV ratings.