Ruth Madoff, the wife of financial schemer Bernard Bernie Madoff, said in an interview airing Sunday that the couple attempted suicide after Bernie's estimated $65 million Ponzi scheme came to public light.
Occupy Oakland protestors will attempt to retake Ogawa Plaza again tonight, following the news that an Iraq war veteran was severely injured during a violent clash between police and protestors last night. As Mayor Quan is threatened with recall and mass arrests spread through occupied zones in the U.S., will the Oakland riots' violence spread?
President Obama announced a much-heralded plan on Wednesday to help recent college graduates struggling to pay back their student loans. Reactions were mixed, with some people lauding the President for taking decisive action and others saying he didn't go far enough.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said it will delay by a month final standards on emissions from hydraulic fracturing, its third postponement of air pollution rules since early September.
U.S. Supreme Court justices have leeway to choose which legal challenge to the health care reform law to take up. They could also refuse to take the case at all.
Asian Carp are a problem for the Great Lake States -- and they're asking the Supreme Court to help them do something about it.
Flash flooding in northern Italy has left at least nine people dead and six missing on Wednesday.
Klaus Regling, chief executive officer of the EFSF, will fly to China in order to lure investors.
Baby Lisa Irwin's two older brothers, both of whom were in Deborah Bradley and Jeremy Irwin's family home the night Lisa disappeared, will be interviewed by investigators Friday and provide DNA samples. Child specialists spoke to the two brothers Oct. 4, the day after baby Lisa was allegedly taken from her home, but the boys, Michael, 5 and Blake, 8, have been kept from police since that day.
European leaders are negotiating with Greek bondholders, publicly stating investors will have to take substantial losses. Their stance is in stark contrast to the way debt holders have been coddled in programs managed by the U.S. Federal Reserve
Both Gadhafi and the revolutionaries who expelled him have been called war criminals. So who is worse?
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney Wednesday voiced support for Gov. John Kasich's anti-union law after refusing to take a stand on the issue a day before while visiting Ohio.
On Oct. 31, the world's population will reach seven billion. The seven billion milestone with projections of more growth, said Babatunde Ostimehin, executive director of the United Nations Population Fund, is a challenge, an opportunity and a call to action. Global population will reach seven billion on Oct. 31, with another billion people projected on Earth by the year 2025. The world's population is projected to reach 10 billion by the end of this century.
Charles Haldeman Jr., CEO of mortgage giant Freddie Mac, will resign by the end of the year, the organization said on Wednesday.
The European Union (EU)-27 has released the following joint statement on the Eurozone debt crisis summit taking place in Brussels, Belgium.
There has been a preliminary agreement to recapitalize European banks.
The Congressional super committee charged with finding $1.2 trillion in deficit reductions by Nov. 23 was reportedly encouraged to aim higher by Senate Democrats.
He warned that the US and other western nations will likely face consequences for their support of Libyan rebels who toppled Gadhafi.
Protestors from the Occupy Denver movement had another opponent on Wednesday: an early snowstorm that has left some with hypothermia.
Pakistan has strongly denied the BBC’s report.
Between 1979 and 2007, the richest 1 percent of Americans saw inflation-adjusted, after-tax income surge 275 percent, while low and middle-income Americans saw their income grow by only a fraction.
The 12-member Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction -- the super committee -- held a public hearing Wednesday, after what has been two months of nearly-clandestine meetings offering little indication of progress. Things have reportedly become so uncertain, congressional leaders have intervened to hammer out a deal.
Bangkok has tried to remain a dry island as the rest of Thailand experiences the worst flooding in 50 years, but as waters rise, the city's 12 million people could soon be inundated.
Joe the Plumber, an unlikely figure from the 2008 presidential race, is running for Congress, he officially announced today.
Why does Washington seek to bar the $39 billion takeover of No. 4 wireless carrier T-Mobile USA by No. 1 carrier AT&T? The numbers tell the story.
A whirl-wind day in the financial crisis: the European Central Bank renewed loans to key banks, and Germany backed an increase in the bailout fund ahead of a European leader summit to discuss debt-plagued Greece. Is the crisis over? Far from it, but it is a start. Here's how the Greece situation can affect your life.
An Egyptian court jailed two policemen on Wednesday for seven years for their cruel treatment of an activist whose death helped kindle the popular revolt against Hosni Mubarak.
A lawyer for a group of protesters arrested in 2008 say a law prohibiting protests on U.S. Supreme Court grounds is too broad and violates the First Amendment.
The Islamist Ennahda party, which has won Tunisia's first free election, said on Wednesday it would not impose restrictions on how foreign tourists dress on beaches and would not impose Islamic banking rules, according to state media.
NATO has postponed until later this week a meeting that had been expected to formalise a decision to conclude the alliance's Libya mission at the end of the month after Libyan officials called for it to be kept going for longer.
