Herman Cain says he was just making a joke about deterring illegal immigrants from coming into America with electrocution at the border. His so-called joke, told to two crowds in Tennessee where the GOP presidential candidate was campaigning last week, went like this: It's giong to be 20 feet high, Cain said, according to The New York Times. It's going to have barbed wire at the top. It's going to be electrified. And there's going to be a sign on the other side saying, ...
David Magee
Oct 17, 2011
Consolidated Edison is seeking $1.7 million in back rent from the developer of the Muslim community center and mosque near Ground Zero, the latest setback for the controversial project, known as Park51.
Roland Li
Oct 17, 2011
An NYPD officer was and charged with federal crime for allegedly violating a man's civil rights.
Michael Billera
Oct 17, 2011
Gannett announced a small decline in third-quarter earnings Monday, mostly due to declines in print advertising.
IBT Staff Reporter
Oct 17, 2011
Zachary Quinto and other famous people who have come out in 2011.
Cristina Merrill
Oct 17, 2011
Altered climatic conditions and global warming are causing noticeable changes in the size of animals, leading to evolution of miniature versions, new research indicates.
Monami Thakur
Oct 17, 2011
Apple has brought speech recognition to the masses with its new iPhone 4S, equipped with an intelligent assistant named Siri
Bhaskar Prasad
Oct 16, 2011
Ford (F), which did not accept U.S. Government assistance, has rebounded after a restructuring, and is well-positioned to capitalize on U.S. job growth, when it returns with gusto. Is now a good time to consider Ford's shares?
Joseph Lazzaro
Oct 16, 2011
Republican presidential hopefuls Michele Bachmann and Herman Cain had some strong words about illegal immigration this weekend when they campaigned in Iowa and Tennessee, respectively.
Cristina Merrill
Oct 16, 2011
Climate Change has been blamed for many things and add one more to the list: It is stunting the growth of animals and plants because warmer temperatures and lack of water is causing them to shrink, a new study suggests. Researchers also warned that it could affect food production in coming years.
Laura Matthews
Oct 16, 2011
A new biography by award-winning authors Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith has claimed that troubled painter Vincent Van Gogh did not kill himself but died in an accident.
Monami Thakur
Oct 16, 2011
The Occupy Wall Street protest, beginning in New York's financial district, will certainly not end there. The movement has since gone global, spreading to countries as far away as Italy, South Korea, and the United Kingdom.
Cavan Sieczkowski
Oct 15, 2011
Apple's unveiling of iPhone 4S might have disappointed many who had been anticipating iPhone 5. However, Siri, the voice assistant feature in iPhone 4S, has caught the imagination of customers and reviewers.
Bhaskar Prasad
Oct 15, 2011
The world has lost another computer pioneer. Dennis Ritchie, the computer scientist who invented the C programing language and co-developed the Unix operating system, has died at the age of 70.
IBT Staff Reporter
Oct 15, 2011
Archaeologists discovered a 100,000-year-old workshop in Blombos Cave in South Africa that may have been the world's earliest artist's studio.
Laura Matthews
Oct 14, 2011
So here's the dilemma in case you missed it. I was watching the GOP presidential debate from Dartmouth early this week, brought to us by Bloomberg TV and The Washington Post. Early in the debate I noticed along with many others that Ron Paul's eyebrow seemed to be falling off. In fact, it looked to me to be a fake eyebrow -- an eyebrow toupee.
David Magee
Oct 14, 2011
A U.S. Navy Veteran is suing the Department of Veteran Affairs after the agency denied her spousal disability benefits, citing a federal law that defines marriage as a union between only a man and a woman.
Ashley Portero
Oct 14, 2011
Apple's newly released iPhone 4S, labeled to be a flop phone by many when it came out last week, has already become a huge success among customers, even before it went on sale in stores across the globe Friday, with many of them buying it as a tribute to Steve Jobs.
Satya Nagendra Padala
Oct 14, 2011
Joshua Komisarjevsky, the second defendant in the horrific Cheshire, Conn., home invasion murders in 2007, was found guilty of 17 counts which include murder, kidnapping and sexual assault.
Ankita Mehta
Oct 14, 2011
A Wisconsin state lawmaker Wednesday proposed a plan to scrap the winner-take-all system of allocating presidential electoral votes.
Dan Rivoli
Oct 13, 2011
It's a watershed season for funny girls on TV, with female comedy talent dominating the airwaves in front of and behind the camera.
IBT Staff Reporter
Oct 13, 2011
Raj Rajartnam, the former co-founder of Galleon Group hedge fund, was sentenced Thursday to 11 years in an historic case for white collar crimes.
Cavan Sieczkowski
Oct 13, 2011