Following the revelation last week that British banking giant Barclays was engaging in massive fraud meant to distort the Libor, the interest rate underpinning hundreds of trillions of dollars in credit transactions, politicians and regulators the world over are taking a sober look at the system. What they find may prove to be shocking.
Eleazar David Meléndez
Jul 03, 2012
Here are five players that could surprise next season for the Eagles.
John Talty
Jul 02, 2012
U.S. stock index futures pointed to a higher open Friday as euro zone leaders at a Brussels summit agreed upon emergency measures to lower Italy's and Spain's borrowing costs and create a single regulatory oversight body for euro zone banks.
Bhaskar Prasad
Jun 29, 2012
The most popular Fourth of July destinations for 2012 are ...
Mark Johanson
Jun 27, 2012
5 players the Bulls are eying in Thursday night's NBA Draft.
John Talty
Jun 27, 2012
Move over, Lassie, there is another heroic pup in town. Move over, Lassie, there is another heroic pup in town. Bear, a four-year-old black Labrador Retriever, saved a two-year-old Michigan boy from drowning in the family's swimming pool over the weekend.
Cavan Sieczkowski
Jun 27, 2012
Saying the word ?vagina? might get you in hot water if you?re a Michigan congresswoman, but the word is used a bit more liberally on television these days.
Mathew Rodriguez
Jun 25, 2012
The Toyota/Save Mart 350 at the road course at Sonoma gets underway just after 3 p.m. ET.
Peter Martin
Jun 24, 2012
Language is much more than just words, or communication. A community's language is inherently tied to its cultural identity, often signifying the culture's heritage and its values. Unfortunately, about half of all of the languages in the world -- more than 3,000 different languages -- are currently on the verge of extinction. Google hopes to stem the tide with its latest effort, called The Endangered Languages Project.
Dave Smith
Jun 21, 2012
The Eagles are counting on big production from some lesser known players to make an impact for them this year.
Peter Martin
Jun 21, 2012
On May 27, 2010 New York congressman Anthony Weiner destroyed his career with a single tweet. Weiner, who married high-ranking political official Huma Abedin the year before, accidentally posted a lewd photo of himself - that was meant for a 21-year-old college student.
Justine Ashley Costanza
Jun 20, 2012
Miami-Dade commissioners agreed to a plan on Tuesday to outlaw the sale of bath salts, a synthetic over the counter drug that is often associated with violence.
Michael Billera
Jun 20, 2012
Romney insists Rubio is indeed being vetted for vice presidential candidacy.
Cristina Merrill
Jun 20, 2012
Romney said Florida's Marco Rubio is being vetted as a candidate for vice president.
Laura Matthews
Jun 19, 2012
Kate Upton got a patriotic makeover for the July 2012 cover and feature story for GQ, where the blonde bombshell spoke about her career highlights, namely one exciting wardrobe malfunction, since she exploded onto the modeling scene. View the slideshow to see photos of Kate Upton along with her July 2012 GQ cover.
Nadine DeNinno
Jun 19, 2012
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney was blown away by the sandwiches at WaWas, repeatedly mispronouncing the Pennsylvania-based supermarket chain's name as he recounted his first time visiting a WaWa during a campaign stop in Cornwall, Pa. Is the former Massachusetts governor out of touch?
Howard Koplowitz
Jun 18, 2012
Dale Earnhardt Jr. earned his first NASCAR Sprint Cup Series win after four years and 143 races without a first place finish. Earnhardt Jr.'s four year drought had many fans and critics questioning whether the good ole boy still had it. But after his June 17 NASCAR Sprint Cup victory at Michigan International Speedway, even his girlfriend, Amy Reimann, is convinced that No. 88 can still ride with the best of them.
Carey Vanderborg
Jun 18, 2012
The Quicken Loans 400 at Michigan International Speedway gets underway just after 1 p.m. ET.
Peter Martin
Jun 17, 2012
Brown, a Democrat who was was barred from the floor of Michigan's House of Representatives after saying the word vagina during an impassioned abortion debate, is planning to perform the Vagina Monologues on the steps of the state's Capitol building in Lansing.
Jeremy White
Jun 17, 2012
Two women legislators in Michigan were banned from speaking on the state House floor this week in opposition to an anti-abortion legislation. One believes it was because she is Jewish and said the word vagina; the other believes it was because she used the word vasectomy.
Laura Matthews
Jun 15, 2012
The debate over minimum wages -- does raising the minimum wage put more money in workers' pockets or just leave more of them jobless? -- is heating up at the state and federal level.
Angelo Young
Jun 12, 2012
Researchers found one in 12 of the third-, sixth- and ninth-graders they interviewed had self-injured at least once without the intention of killing themselves.
Roxanne Palmer
Jun 11, 2012