ATHENS -- Greece's tourism season was supposed to be a ray of sunshine amid the country's political crisis and depressed economy.Instead, the outlook is cloudy. Greek-vacation bookings from Germany and the rest of Europe are...
TOKYO -- The operator of Japan's damaged Fukushima nuclear plant completed its first detailed on-the-ground inspection of one of the reactors there since the tsunami 14 months ago, though three others remain too radioactive...
NEWARK, N.J. -- For a moment, the puck was gone, lost in a forest of bodies and sticks and pads, and only Adam Henrique could see it.Already, the rookie forward for the Devils had won his team a series with an overtime goal...
As Memorial Day weekend nears, veterans and the military vote have become a more serious focus in the 2012 campaign. In the last few weeks, President Barack Obama has reached out to military voters with the aim of slicing...
US House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) has set a vote on extending the 2001 and 2003 Bush tax cuts "before we leave for August," the first time House Republicans have set a clear timetable for beginning action on the...
CAIRO -- Early results Friday from Egypt's presidential election point to a bruising runoff race between former regime loyalist Ahmed Shafiq and Muslim Brotherhood political leader Mohammed Morsi, threatening to squeeze...
TOKYO -- Goldman Sachs Group plans to launch a private real estate investment trust (REIT) in Japan this summer amid signs of an improvement in the Tokyo property market, a person familiar with the matter said Friday.Goldman...
BEIJING -- Royal Caribbean Cruises is bringing another ship to the Chinese market in an attempt to win the country's ballooning number of travelers and buoy sluggish growth prospects after a competitor's deadly crash in the...
NEW DELHI -- India may ban European carriers from flying into the country if the European Union includes airlines in its emissions control system, a senior Indian government official said Friday."We will take retaliatory...
Lehman Brothers Holdings has struck a deal to buy the 26.5 percent stake that it does not already own in apartment giant Archstone for $1.58 billion, according to people familiar with the matter.The failed investment bank,...
SHANGHAI -- Chinese authorities have released a Standard Chartered banker detained in March on suspicion she aided a fugitive during her work as a banker for high net-worth individuals, her fiance said.Wu Yidian Eden was...
TOKYO -- The amount of radiation released from the March 2011 Fukushima nuclear plant accident in northern Japan was higher than previous government figures have shown, representing about 17 percent of the release from the...
As traders at Morgan Stanley were frantically trying to shore up Facebook Inc.'s share price following the company's initial public offering, other managers on the deal were helping short sellers bet that the newly minted...
KABUL -- A $275 million fleet of Afghan air force transport planes provided by the US over the past three years has been grounded for months because of lack of adequate maintenance and potential safety problems, American...
MAPLE SHADE, N.J. -- In almost every way, Pedro Hernandez has been an unremarkable presence in this working-class town outside Camden, N.J.Neighbors said he lives quietly with his wife and daughter, joins them at church...
DES MOINES -- President Barack Obama on Thursday continued his assault on Mitt Romney's business experience, saying the Republican presidential hopeful's time as a private equity executive was valuable but not sufficient for...
WASHINGTON -- A former baseball player who has admitted past use of performance-enhancing drugs testified Thursday at the perjury trial of star pitcher Roger Clemens, buttressing a key detail provided by another prosecution...
WATERLOO, Ontario -- Research In Motion (RIM) Ltd. may have lost its dominance in the global smartphone market, but its instant messaging service is still widely popular around the world.Now even that strong suit is...
A new study confirms that long-acting forms of contraception such as intrauterine devices (IUDs) and implants are better than birth control pills and patches at preventing pregnancies, giving doctors new ammunition to...
New signs of a global slowdown are darkening the economic outlook.On Thursday, measures of business sentiment in Europe slipped and reports from purchasing managers at manufacturers around the world turned down.Among them,...
PHILADELPHIA -- Mitt Romney ventured to an urban charter school Thursday in a rare inner-city campaign stop, where he met with a handful of educators who challenged the presidential candidate on his education...
Jurors in the insider-trading trial of former Goldman Sachs Group director Rajat Gupta heard a series of key wiretapped phone conversations Thursday that prosecutors say demonstrate he shared confidential information about...
The Newhouse family's Advance Publications said it is scaling back print publication of the New Orleans Times-Picayune to three days a week from the current seven.It also will do the same with three daily newspapers it owns...
BAGHDAD -- Global powers and Iran, seeking to end a diplomatic impasse over Tehran's nuclear program, agreed Thursday to hold their third round of negotiations in less than two months in Moscow on June 18-19.The talks,...
Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) and Elizabeth Warren, his presumed Democratic challenger, are running neck and neck in a new poll, despite a prolonged flap over Warren's claims of Native American ancestry.Brown holds a 48 percent...
WASHINGTON -- Mitt Romney unveiled a proposal that would reduce the federal role in education and let some low-income and special-education students use federal money for private school tuition or private tutoring.Federal...
As President Barack Obama seeks to paint Mitt Romney to general election voters as a recovering corporate raider, the presumptive Republican nominee sought to define himself Thursday with a new ad that lists more things he...
SINGAPORE -- Seeking to retain UK tax benefits and keep more cash, motor-racing franchise Formula One Group will sell shares bundled with a loan note in its Singapore initial public offering (IPO), people familiar with the...
The town of Samal in Bataan Province, part of the Philippines, is not an especially notable place in the archipelago of islands -- it is best known for producing cookies, and exporting seafood and vegetables.But there was an...
SEOUL -- North Korea's increasingly inflammatory criticism against South Korea is a sign of instability in its authoritarian regime and does not appear likely to end soon, the South's top official in charge of dealing with...
SAN FRANCISCO -- Zynga has faced plenty of questions after buying the maker of "Draw Something," a mobile game that was released only six weeks earlier and has since lost popularity. Now the social games company is trying to...
With the flip of a switch on March 3, the world's largest airline, United Continental Holdings, took its biggest step toward fusing the operations of two of the nation's largest carriers: It merged the United and Continental...
The disappointing Los Angeles Angels fired hitting coach Mickey Hatcher last week. But in replacing him, they continued a curious Major League Baseball tradition: having a relatively so-so hitter as the hitting coach.In his...
President Barack Obama maintains a large lead among Hispanic voters in the presidential race, while Republican Mitt Romney will have to work to improve his standing with the fast-growing group of Americans, according to a...
Until Wednesday night, the most memorable impression Devils forward Ryan Carter had made on the Madison Square Garden ice had been left by his own blood.In a regular-season game on March 19, Carter squared off in a fight...
Capital Research & Management wanted to buy into the Facebook Inc. initial public offering. But days before the IPO, an underwriting bank on the deal warned the big investment firm about Facebook's dimming revenue...
When did tennis become so fashionable? Was it when Ralph Lauren began designing the outfits for Wimbledon officials in 2006? Or when Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour started appearing courtside to cheer on Roger...
Is House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi abandoning President Barack Obama in his effort to raise taxes on households making more than $250,000? It sure sounded that way Wednesday.In a letter to House Speaker John Boehner,...
NEW YORK -- Investors reversed steep US stock losses to finish Wednesday roughly flat, though European stocks and the euro tumbled to 2012 lows amid growing chatter about a potential Greek exit from the eurozone.The Dow...
NEW YORK -- Prosecutors acknowledged Wednesday that a senior Goldman Sachs Group Inc. salesman shared information about three technology companies with former hedge fund manager Raj Rajaratnam.The government's disclosure...
NYSE Euronext has reached out to Facebook Inc., inviting the social networking company to list its shares on the Big Board, after Nasdaq OMX Group Inc. bungled its initial public offering, said a person familiar with the...
BAGHDAD -- Global powers and Iran traded new proposals Wednesday aimed at ending the standoff over Tehran's nuclear program in a round of negotiations that both sides view as crucial to stabilizing the Middle East and...
The Eurovision Song Contest, an annual singing pageant as famous for its outrageous stage shows as for its vocal performances, heads into new territory when Baku, Azerbaijan, hosts the 57th edition Saturday.With crazy...
Dell Inc. shares plunged 18 percent Wednesday after the company's quarterly update raised questions about the strength of computer sales and overall spending on technology.Dell's decline erased $4.7 billion in market value...
NEW YORK -- Three Facebook Inc. investors filed a civil lawsuit Wednesday in Manhattan federal court, alleging the company and its underwriters failed to properly disclose changes to analysts' forecasts made at the...
WASHINGTON -- Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan apologized Wednesday to lawmakers for misconduct by agents involved in an alleged prostitution scandal last month in Colombia.Sullivan, speaking publicly for the first time...
Likely Republican candidate Mitt Romney leads President Barack Obama by six percentage points in Florida, according to a poll released Wednesday, with an increasing number of the swing state's voters saying Obama does not...
CAIRO -- Millions of Egyptians voted Wednesday in a historic presidential election that is expected to usher in the country's first freely elected civilian leader after six decades of military-backed dictatorship.Voters...
After a spring of marathon standardized tests, thousands of New York school students are about to sit for one more -- a test that will not count, but screens questions for future exams.Test companies routinely try out...
At the recent annual meeting of medical-device maker Stryker, Chairman William U. Parfet puzzled attendees when he began with a brief statement about former Chief Executive Stephen P. MacMillan, who was pushed out two months...
Sony and Samsung Electronics are trying to force retailers to rein in discounts on televisions, a tactic aimed at preserving profit margins that may also help protect chains such as Best Buy and Target from cutthroat online...
Less than three days before Facebook's initial public offering (IPO), Chief Financial Officer David Ebersman decided to boost the number of shares the company would offer investors by 25 percent, people familiar with the...
BRUSSELS -- European leaders meeting in Brussels later Wednesday are expected to back a package of initiatives to jumpstart growth across the flagging eurozone.But the planned display of harmony masks deep divisions within...
SAN FRANCISCO -- What if the Golden Gate Bridge celebrates its 75th birthday and nobody can see it?The people who handle tourism on the iconic span are taking steps to ensure that a fog does not hang over their party this...
President Barack Obama's re-election campaign on Wednesday plans to introduce its online organizing tool for 2012, hoping to spur the volunteer enthusiasm that carried the president to the White House four years ago.The...
Mitt Romney easily won the Kentucky and Arkansas Republican presidential primaries on Tuesday, while President Barack Obama had tighter races in his primaries against minor challengers -- or even no challenger at all.In...
PITTSBURGH -- A year ago, he was playing in the mecca of baseball. Today, he resides in the sport's version of Siberia. But A.J. Burnett likes his new surroundings. Really.The Pirates may not offer the prestige, payroll and...
Voters remain deeply pessimistic about the nation's future and uncertain of President Barack Obama's ability to set the economy on the right course, according to a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll that finds the...
A senior Nasdaq Stock Market official told customers Tuesday afternoon that it would have pulled the plug on Facebook Inc.'s initial public offering had it known the full extent of the technical problems that plagued its...
NEW YORK -- Analysts for at least two of Facebook Inc.'s lead underwriters revised their financial forecasts for the company while it was holding initial-public-offering roadshow meetings with investors, according to people...
Nasdaq OMX Group Inc. will make the final decisions on making up losses sustained by brokers and traders after glitches struck the initial public offering of Facebook Inc., according to a senior official with the agency...
WASHINGTON -- The US economy will likely enter another recession in the first half of 2013 if large tax increases and spending cuts are allowed to go into effect in January, the Congressional Budget Office said, a finding...
One of Silicon Valley's best-known venture capital firms, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, faces a lawsuit from a female investment partner claiming gender discrimination and retaliation.Ellen Pao, who joined Kleiner in...
The Massachusetts Democratic Party is trying to portray Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) as being political kindred spirits with presumptive Republican presidential nominee and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.In a news...
NEW YORK -- Convicted hedge-fund manager Raj Rajaratnam sprang into action moments after a man called and said he urgently needed to speak with him in September 2008, his former assistant testified Tuesday.Shortly after the...
President Barack Obama's endorsement of same-sex marriage has had only a limited impact on voters, despite heated national debate over the politics of the issue, according to a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll that will...
AOL's Patch.com, the online local news network whose high costs have made it a lightning rod for criticism of AOL's strategy, is laying off about 20 people as part of a broader restructuring.Patch will consolidate its four...
The first private spacecraft aiming to dock with the International Space Station blasted off from Florida and reached orbit early Tuesday with split-second precision, but the biggest tests for the mission are still days...
A bipartisan group of senators will introduce legislation Tuesday that would seek to make it easier for foreign students who hold post-graduate degrees in math, science or engineering from American colleges to remain in the...
President Barack Obama does not often dwell on similarities to his predecessor, George W. Bush, but here is one thing they have in common: Obama's re-election challenge this year is starting to look an awful lot like the one...
Restaurant operator Benihana plans to go private, disclosing Tuesday it has agreed to be acquired by investment firm Angelo Gordon & Co. for about $296 million.In a proposal backed by the Benihana board, Angelo Gordon is...
NEW DELHI -- Countries involved in a US-backed trans-Afghanistan pipeline will sign a commercial agreement Wednesday that is aimed at keeping the much-delayed $7.6 billion project alive.The US has, for almost 20 years,...
Facebook shares continued to slide in premarket trading Tuesday amid a report that an analyst for one of its banks trimmed his outlook for the social-network company's revenue just ahead of the initial public offering...
Blackstone Group is acquiring discount lodging chain Motel 6 in a deal valued at $1.9 billion, as the private-equity firm continues to invest aggressively through its $10 billion real estate war chest.The investment firm...
When Robert C. Jones started working on Wall Street 30 years ago, few investors placed their faith -- and made big trading bets -- in computer-driven models.The gospel eventually spread across the money-management industry,...
SEOUL -- A South Korean official said Tuesday that reports suggesting the country would stop importing crude oil from Iran in the next couple of months regardless of requests by the US and the European Union "aren't...
Burma's citizens are beginning to invoke their newfound right to hold public protests, a new phase in the country's recent political opening that could substantially ramp up pressure on leaders.In the latest demonstration,...
CHICAGO -- President Barack Obama urged eurozone governments to act forcefully to resolve their debt crisis, ahead of an upcoming meeting of European leaders this week."Acting forcefully rather than in small bite-sized...
A former employee of Yahoo Inc. has pleaded guilty to allegations he leaked inside information about the internet search firm's earnings and potential business tie-ups for more than a year to a portfolio manager after a...
Eastman Kodak Co. suffered a setback in a patent suit against Apple Inc. and Research In Motion Ltd., dealing a blow to the onetime film giant's efforts to raise billions of dollars by selling off its intellectual...
CHICAGO -- NATO leaders Monday signed off on a plan to give Afghan forces the lead in combat operations next year, setting the stage for winding down the war in 2014, as President Barack Obama suggested progress in ending an...
Men should not be screened for prostate cancer with a common blood test, a widely followed federal advisory panel recommended Monday.But the report is not likely to quell a dispute about whether the test's risks outweigh its...
Widely used osteoporosis drugs such as Fosamax and Actonel significantly raise the risk for a rare but serious thigh fracture and that risk rises the longer patients take the medicines, a new study found.Some women 50 and...
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. -- A former Rutgers University student convicted of bias crimes for spying on his gay roommate was sentenced to 30 days in jail Monday in a case that drew international attention and illustrated the reach...
NEW YORK -- Former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. director Rajat Gupta violated his duty to Goldman and its shareholders when he allegedly leaked secret information about the investment bank and other companies to convicted...
Nasdaq OMX Group Inc. faced the fallout for mishandling Facebook Inc.'s initial public offering, as irate brokers and traders demanded the exchange company make up losses they blamed on Friday's technical glitches.Some...
NEW YORK -- Facebook Inc. shares skidded on their second day on the stock market to well below their offer price, leaving some investors who bought in the social network's public offering in the red and raising questions...
MENLO PARK, Calif. -- Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg changed his status to "married" Saturday and received over one million "likes" from his followers.But the site he founded isn't always so marriage-friendly. In fact,...
Senate Democrats have said they are not planning a confirmation hearing for Marilyn Tavenner, the acting top official at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), ending months of speculation over whether they...
Former MF Global Holdings Ltd. CEO Jon S. Corzine received more than $8 million in cash and stock options in the months leading up to the brokerage's collapse, according to recently filed bankruptcy documents.Corzine, a...
SYDNEY -- Qantas Airways said Monday it will terminate 500 engineering jobs to adapt to modern technology as part of a wider effort to stem losses at its international-flights unit.The job cuts show that even airlines closer...
WASHINGTON -- Former US congressman Harold Ford Jr. said that Newark Mayor Cory Booker shouldn't have backed off his comments that he made defending private equity and criticizing pro-Obama ads criticizing Mitt Romney for...
WASHINGTON -- Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Gregory Jaczko abruptly announced his resignation Monday, saying he would end a rocky tenure as the top nuclear safety official in the US.Jaczko said he would step down...
Five large cable operators said Monday they will join forces to give customers access to each other's wireless internet hot spots in the most sweeping Wi-Fi roaming agreement struck by the industry to date.The consortium...
Former Vice President Dick Cheney and his wife, Lynne, will host a July fundraiser for Mitt Romney at their home in Jackson Hole, Wyo., according to a save-the-date email from the Romney campaign.The event will help the...
Hulu LLC is looking to turn up the heat with its new slate of summer programming.Beginning June 4, the online video service will premiere three original series and seven exclusively licensed television shows previously...
CHICAGO -- At least 20 people arrested during violent protests against the NATO summit in Chicago were released overnight Sunday to whoops and cheers from the waiting crowd, the Chicago Tribune reported Monday.Demonstrators...
MADRID -- Spain's economy continued to shrink in the second quarter, Finance Minister Luis de Guindos said Monday, yet more bad news for the country after the government said late Friday that the 2011 budget deficit was...
SINGAPORE -- Formula One Group, the motor racing franchise owned by private-equity firm CVC Capital Partners, received the go-ahead from the Singapore Exchange for a $2.5 billion initial public offering (IPO) ahead of a...
In pursuing the conviction of insider trader Raj Rajaratnam, Reed Brodsky's tenacious style led jurors to nickname the 5ft 9in prosecutor "Napoleon."Now, the 42-year-old lawyer, who left private practice eight years ago to...
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- Afghanistan's poppy crop -- the source of most of the world's illicit opiates -- appears to have suffered a devastating failure this year, according to US and Afghan officials, in a development that...
SAN FRANCISCO -- Chief executives of Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. will meet in San Francisco Monday in a court-directed session aimed at settling their smartphone patent war.But a deal seems unlikely, people...
The issue of President Barack Obama's place of birth, which had largely faded from national view, is flaring up in Arizona after its secretary of state said Obama might not be on the November ballot there if Hawaii doesn't...
CHICAGO -- US tensions with Pakistan complicated the opening day of the NATO summit in Chicago, where allies gathered to solidify a strategy for ending the war in Afghanistan.The Obama administration has so far been unable...
Sen. Jon Tester, the Montana Democrat, has raised the prospect that Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chairman Gary Gensler should be fired over his handling of the recent scandal and October bankruptcy at MF...
Blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng's departure from China has raised difficult questions ranging from the fate of his extended family and allies to his ability to spur change at home, even as he enjoyed his first taste...
BEIJING -- A group of Chinese fishermen apparently detained by North Koreans nearly two weeks ago have been released, Chinese state media reported Sunday.The state-run Xinhua news agency quoted Jiang Yaxian, Chinese...
CHICAGO -- President Barack Obama promised the war in Afghanistan will end within two years as he met Sunday with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, before the start of a NATO summit during which the US and its allies will work...
House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) defended his demand for large spending cuts in exchange for a vote to raise the debt ceiling, saying in an interview released Sunday that "I'm not going to apologize for leading.""The real...
Robert Greifeld, chief executive of Nasdaq OMX Group Inc., on Sunday acknowledged design problems with Nasdaq's technology after the exchange operator was widely seen as bungling the landmark listing of shares of Facebook on...
House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) weighed in Sunday on the recent J.P. Morgan Chase trading debacle, saying, "There's no law against stupidity. No law against stupid trades."In an interview on ABC's "This Week," Boehner...
VESTMANNAEYJAR, Iceland -- Three and a half years after Iceland collapsed in a heap, Dadi Palsson's fish-processing plant has the air of a surprising economic recovery.Palsson arrived at 4:00am local time on a recent...
ATHENS -- Greek President Karolos Papoulias dissolved the country's two-day-old parliament Saturday, paving the way for fresh elections June 17, which are shaping up as a game of chicken over the country's continued...
With a determined victory at the 137th Preakness Stakes on Saturday, I'll Have Another is on his way to winning the Triple Crown.The Kentucky Derby winner, ridden by jockey Mario Gutierrez, bore down in the stretch to edge...
SAN FRANCISCO -- Google Inc. said Saturday Chinese antitrust authorities have cleared the internet giant's purchase of Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc., pushing the $12.5 billion deal over its last regulatory hurdle.Google, a...
BEIJING -- Blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng left China for the US Saturday, bringing to an end an episode that strained relations between Washington and Beijing and put Chinese human rights issues under an intense...
CAMP DAVID, Md. -- Leaders of the world's eight richest economies gathered at Camp David, Md., on Saturday to discuss how to deal with the European debt crisis amid fresh concerns that it could spark widespread financial...
WASHINGTON -- An old beer can stuffed with secret evidence of baseball legend Roger Clemens' alleged steroid use also contained drug paraphernalia for at least one other player, a key prosecution witness testified Friday.The...
President Barack Obama and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) maintained more than a two-to-one cash advantage over Mitt Romney and the Republican Party at the end of April, according to the latest fundraising numbers...
CAMP DAVID, Md. -- President Barack Obama welcomed Group of Eight (G-8) leaders to his rural retreat of Camp David on Friday, using an informal dinner to mark the start of a summit expected to be dominated by Europe's fiscal...
NEW YORK -- Facebook Inc.'s debut as a public company suffered a setback on the Nasdaq Stock Market as traders experienced trouble changing or canceling orders for much of the day Friday.Exchange operator Nasdaq OMX Group...
NEW YORK -- Facebook took eight years to stage one of the most anticipated initial public offerings ever. The anticlimax came Friday, as Wall Street bankers struggled to prevent the stock from ending its first day with a...
Mitt Romney and his wife, Ann, contributed $150,000 to his presidential campaign this week, an aide said Friday.The Romneys contributed $75,000 each to Romney Victory Inc., the joint fundraising venture with the Republican...
The makings of a new Chinese dissident controversy seemed nearly in place Friday when Wuer Kaixi, a prominent exile, planned to defiantly enter the Chinese embassy in Washington to draw attention to Beijing's treatment of...
A second attempt at a major women's soccer league in the US foundered Friday as Women's Professional Soccer (WPS) announced it would permanently suspend its operations.The league, which played with six teams in 2011,...
Megabus plans to expand its network of US intercity coach services by 50 percent, purchasing assets from a rival to push into Texas and California.Chicago-based Megabus is the largest of a new breed of operators using cheap...
New York law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP is readying a possible bankruptcy-protection filing for sometime in the next several weeks, said people familiar with the matter, a move that would initiate official liquidation of the...
The Obama campaign is trying to fight new, restrictive voter registration laws by providing information to its supporters to help them navigate the stricter rules.The effort is a sign that the campaign is now less focused on...
General Motors has decided it won't advertise in the next Super Bowl, a surprising reversal of strategy that comes as the automaker overhauls its global marketing operations.Super Bowl advertising is effective but has become...
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius told Georgetown University's graduating public-policy students that heated debates over the relationship between religion and government are "a strength of our country,...
Shares of Facebook Inc. opened about 11 percent higher after they started trading Friday, but quickly lost steam and fell as low as the $38 IPO price in their first half hour of trading.The weak start came after high...
Long Island-bound commuters who prefer to bring a few beers on their Friday night trip better catch the 11:52pm out of Penn Station because, starting this weekend, Long Island Rail Road will prohibit alcoholic beverages at...
When civil-rights pioneer Rosa Parks died in 2005, she left behind a museum's worth of papers and personal effects potentially worth millions of dollars.Who should get the money from the sale of her possessions is now a...
The fundraising group for House Republicans continues to maintain more money in the bank than its Democratic rival as campaign season ramps up, according to numbers released by both committees Friday.The National Republican...
BEIJING -- China's media and internet users stepped up pressure on Beijing to release more information about fishermen who were apparently kidnapped by North Koreans last week, in the latest sign of rising public concern...
Jennifer Lopez said she has yet to decide whether she will return to the judge's seat on "American Idol" after this season.Lopez addressed speculation about her role on the show Thursday night, tweeting, "There is no truth...
J.P. Morgan Chase Chairman and CEO James Dimon had just committed the most expensive blunder of his 30-year career, failing to detect the risk of trades that had begun to generate huge losses at the bank.On April 30,...
NEW YORK -- Several top corporate and Wall Street executives, including Goldman Sachs Group CEO Lloyd Blankfein, could be potential witnesses at the insider-trading trial of former Goldman and Procter & Gamble director Rajat...
The coveted club of Silicon Valley start-ups worth a billion dollars is quickly losing its exclusivity.At least 20 closely-held US companies backed by venture capital are now valued at $1 billion or more, including the...
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama hosts world leaders this weekend at a pair of summits that represent the first test of how political upheavals among the world's major economies stand to influence global policies on...
A Wall Street regulator is examining trading in Groupon that sent its stock price soaring hours before a favorable earnings announcement, according to a person familiar with the matter.The review by the Financial Industry...
For nearly six months after US-led forces accidentally killed two dozen Pakistani troops at the Afghanistan border, officials at the highest reaches of the Obama administration have been locked in a heated debate over what...
CHICAGO -- The fallout from reports that Republican strategists sought to re-open the 2008 attacks on President Barack Obama's ties to a controversial minister has reached Chicago and the office of its mayor Rahm Emanuel,...
ATHENS -- The head of Greece's radical left party says there is little chance Europe will cut off funding to the country and if it does, Greece will repudiate its debts, throwing down a gauntlet that could increase tensions...
WASHINGTON -- J.P. Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon will testify before a key Senate panel as early as next month about his company's $2 billion-plus trading loss.Sen. Tim Johnson (D-S.D.), the chairman of the Senate Banking...
Enterprise Products Partners and Enbridge Inc. completed the reversal of the Seaway pipeline Thursday, setting the stage for crude oil to flow from an Oklahoma storage hub to Gulf Coast refineries.With the technical aspects...
WASHINGTON -- House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) professed bafflement Thursday about the reaction to his comment that any increase in the debt limit at the end of the year must be accompanied by spending cuts and other...
WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration is weighing policy changes that for the first time would lift a tattered veil of legal secrecy from its controversial drone wars, a recognition that the expanding program has become a...
Facebook Inc. set its final IPO price at $38 a share, as the social network gets ready for its initial public offering on Friday.The social network priced at the top end of the range it set earlier this week, when it said it...
US trade officials ordered 31-percent duties on China's top makers of solar panels, in a decision that is likely to help US solar equipment manufacturers but could stir trade tensions with China.The Commerce Department said...
Facebook Inc. is close to pricing its initial public offering at $38 a share, said a person familiar with the matter, a move that would value the internet company at more than $100 billion.Facebook executives and senior...
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has for years studiously avoided revenue-making opportunities that might compromise the experience of using his social-networking site.But as investors take a hard look at the potential...
The rumors were confirmed at the mahogany bar, where men like John Lawler and Charlie Visconti took their seats, the same seats they've taken day after day for more than a decade.Yes, it was true, proprietor Ben Benson said...
If Kentucky Derby winner I'll Have Another emerges victorious over his 10 rivals in Saturday's Preakness Stakes, he will have beaten 24 different horses in two races.And therein lies a possible reason why no horse since...
Months before Bruno Iksil became famous as the "London whale," the trader who contributed to a loss of more than $2 billion at J.P. Morgan Chase, he earned a different nickname: the "Caveman," for pursuing trades that rivals...
LONDON -- China overtook India as the world's top consumer of gold in the first quarter, the World Gold Council said, cementing expectations that China will be the dominant buying force in the gold market in 2012.Indian gold...
Facebook Inc. is nearing the last step before its landmark initial public offering by finalizing the price for its shares later Thursday.The social network earlier this week raised the price range for its IPO to $34 to $38 a...
ISTANBUL -- Turkey is seeking to revive its stalled bid to join the European Union, at a time of mounting fears that its neighbor and longtime rival, Greece, could become the first country forced to exit the eurozone.Ankara...
Mitt Romney raised $40.1 million in his first month as the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, nearly matching President Barack Obama's total.Romney's total for April falls just shy of the $43.6 million the...
ATHENS -- Greece's new caretaker government was sworn in Thursday at a ceremony at the presidential palace, putting in place a technocratic cabinet that will lead the country to fresh polls in mid-June.The swearing-in...
FLORHAM PARK, N.J. -- Of all the NFL storylines that are certain to unfold this season, the question of how the Jets plan to divide the quarterback duties between Mark Sanchez and backup Tim Tebow stirs the most...
Pinterest, the online scrapbooking website that has become the latest Silicon Valley darling because of its rapid user growth, has raised $100 million in a financing round that values the start-up at $1.5 billion, said...
For the first time in US history, whites of European ancestry account for less than half of newborn children, marking a demographic tipping point that is already changing the nation's politics, economy and workforce.Among...
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- Taliban attacks are jumping in the southern Afghan areas that were the focus of the 2010 US troop surge, posing a renewed challenge to the American-led coalition that hoped to pacify the crucial...
WASHINGTON -- The government's star witness in the perjury trial of Roger Clemens struggled with his recollections Wednesday, offering shifting explanations under cross-examination about the former pitching great's alleged...
Pfizer Inc.'s new drug Xalkori for adult lung cancer is showing striking promise against two rare childhood cancers, illustrating how personalized medicine is emerging as a weapon against pediatric malignancies.The drug...
As Greece careens toward another election, it's growing more likely that the country will crash out of the euro -- but it is not yet inevitable.Europe wants Greece to uphold the €173 billion ($220 billion)...
In a potentially ominous sign for the Obama campaign, a new poll has declared Wisconsin a true tossup state, finding President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney locked in a 46 percent-46 percent tie among likely voters.As the...
FRANKFURT -- European Central Bank President Mario Draghi urged Greece to remain a member of the 17-member eurozone, in his first public comments on the possibility that Greece's political turmoil may force its exit from the...
When former pharmaceutical executive Andrew G. Bodnar pleaded guilty to white-collar crime in 2009, the judge didn't throw the book at him, he ordered him to write one.Reflect upon "the criminal behavior in this case so that...
J.P. Morgan Chase's trading losses of more than $2 billion centered on a complicated three-step strategy that could raise new questions about whether the bank was hedging its risks or making a big bet.The size and complexity...
Even as major broadcast-TV networks complain about a new ad-skipping feature offered by Dish Network Corp., the satellite-TV operator plans to promote it -- with TV ads.Dish is rolling out an array of television, radio,...
NEW YORK -- A federal judge says federal prosecutors will likely be allowed to play three key wiretap recordings at the insider-trading trial of former Goldman Sachs Group director Rajat Gupta.Wednesday's tentative decision,...
Mount Airy Casino Resort, one of Pennsylvania's first stand-alone casinos, is enjoying a change in fortune after years of tough times and a legal cloud over its ownership.The Pocono resort's gambling revenue has stabilized,...
TAMPA, Fla. -- Mitt Romney raked in $2.3 million during a finance stop in Tampa, Fla., Wednesday, part of a four-stop fundraising blitz in the Sunshine State this week.The campaign doesn't disclose fundraising totals, but...
