Jan. 1, 2012 is around the corner. Americans across the country take this time to reflect on the past year and decide what parts of themselves they hope to change and improve for the upcoming year. To embrace 2012, we took a look at the top 14 New Year's Resolutions in the U.S. and offer you seven tips for how to keep them unlike years in the past.
The U.S. Treasury again shied away from labeling China a currency manipulator on Tuesday, but it rapped the country for not moving fast enough on exchange rate reforms.
The Internal Revenue Service issued new rules to clarify the difference between a business expense that is a repair and tax-deductible and one that is an improvement but not deductible right away.
We took a look at some of the best game apps offered on the Amazon Kindle Fire. Until Jan. 2, Amazon is offering many of the most popular EA games for $0.99. Check out these 17 top Kindle Fire games for children and adults from puzzles to classics.
Newt Gingrich has called for abolishing entire courts and forcing judges to testify before Congress to explain controversial decisions.
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan and the Sultan of Sokoto, the spiritual leader of the country's 70 million Muslims, met two days after Boko Haram's Christmas day attacks.
President Barack Obama will nominate Harvard economist Jeremy Stein and Jerome Powell, an investment banker and former Treasury official, to the two empty seats on the Federal Reserve's policy-setting board of governors.
Military forces are now combing through the capital city of Bissau, seeking all other conspirators.
European shares steadied on Tuesday in low volume after strong gains in the previous week, with Italian banking stocks hit after the country's bond yields rose on worries thin liquidity would make a sovereign debt auction in Italy on Thursday tough.
Sen. Ben Nelson, a conservative Democrat from Nebraska, is expected to announce on Tuesday that he will not seek re-election to a third term in the Senate, according to reports from several news outlets.
The Obama administration plans to seek an increase in the nation's borrowing power, less than half a year after a debt ceiling debate cost the U.S. its stellar credit rating and brought government to a dead halt.
In a press release, the FBI released its top terrorism cases this year.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo recently announced that he supports the construction of a full-tilt casino in New York City, taking a controversial stance that he says would bring billions of dollars in revenue to the state's coffers.
The Iowa Supreme Court's 2009 same-sex marriage ruling and an injunction on Oklahoma's voter-approved ban on Sharia were a couple of the more controversial decisions that sparked impeachment calls.
Samsung Electronics Co, Sharp Corp and five other makers of liquid crystal displays agreed to pay $553 million to settle consumer and state regulatory claims that they conspired to fix prices for LCD panels in televisions, notebook computers and monitors.
On Tuesday, Arab League peace monitors were sent to the city of Homs, the symbolic center for the ten month-long anti-government protests in Syria.
China launched Beidou on Tuesday, which is the country's response to the U.S. GPS platform. The satellite navigation system will help China become more independent, in addition to providing the country with location-based needs.
In a 2006 newsletter from his former consulting company, the Center for Health Transformation, Newt Gingrich praised Mitt Romney's Massachusetts health care plan, and specifically the individual mandate.
Madonna Badger, a New York advertising executive, lost three young daughters and her parents in a tragic fire in Stamford, Conn. late Sunday. Accidental house fires can most often be avoided if homeowners follow safety tips and avoid the leading causes of fires, such as cooking, smoking, heating, Christmas trees, fireplaces, dryers and washing machines, candles, portable generators and children playing with fire.
Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Iraq, Qatar – as well as Iran - use the Strait to transport oil and/or natural gas exports.
Mexico's President Felipe Calderon received a nice Christmas present when the military arrested Felipe Cabrera Sarabia, a top lieutenant in the powerful Sinaloa drug cartel. Will it lead to the arrest of Shorty Guzman?
Oil Shock III -- could another surge in oil prices to the stratosphere jeopardize another U.S. economic recovery? Indeed, it is possible, with oil pushing $100 per barrel as 2011 ends, and with little sign of retreating substantially despite sub-par U.S. gasoline demand.
Chinese dissident Chen Xi has become the second dissident in four days to be jailed for inciting subversions through online essays; he was given a 10-year jail sentence by a Chinese court in Guiyang, the capital of Guizhou province.
Even when times are tough at home... British people care deeply about the world's most vulnerable children.
CNN has published court documents from Newt Gingrich's 1980 divorce that contradict his claim that his ex-wife, Jackie Battley, initiated the proceedings.
Cuban immigration officials eventually send illegal Haiti migrants back to their home country.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has rejected calls for a review of the Dec. 4 parliamentary elections.
Newly emerged Court documents contradict Republican Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich's assertion regarding his first divorce. Newt Gingrich who is constantly on fire over his personal history has continuously maintained that it is his first wife Jackie Gingrich, who asked for divorce first and not him. His campaign website under the head Answering Attacks-Personal life says that it is Jackie Gingrich who requested for a divorce, quoting their daughter Jackie Gingrich Cushman's ...
Brazil has enjoyed a dizzying pace of economic growth in recent years due primarily to a huge escalation in commodity exports, particularly to the ravenous Chinese market.
European stocks crept higher on Tuesday, catching the tailwind of a pre-holiday U.S. rally, while the euro was hamstrung by the prospect of a large Italian debt auction later in the week.
