Atlantis Astronauts grabbed the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope for the first time since 2002.
Pelosi assured Obama that a bill undertaking an overhaul of the health-care system will be on the House floor by August.
U.S. retail sales fell 0.4% during April, as job losses and uncertainty about the economy put pressure on spending.
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The Obama administration is moving forward with a plan to regulate derivative products that could include direct oversight of the fast-growing market.
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SEC staff will recommend filing civil fraud charges against Angelo Mozilo, the co-founder of Countrywide Financial.
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Harvard law professor Cass Sunstein cruised through a Senate hearing on his nomination to be regulatory czar.
Pope Benedict issued his strongest statement yet of solidarity with Palestinians, offering his prayers that an effective blockade of Gaza by Israel will soon be lifted.
The road trip is poised to make a comeback as the summer travel season begins, auto group AAA said in a new forecast.
Space shuttle Atlantis launched on a mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope, which has snapped more than 570,000 images of 29,000 celestial objects over 19 years.
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Pakistan commandos flew in to hunt Taliban leaders in the Swat Valley, a strategy shift.
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CA posted a 1.4% increase in fiscal-fourth-quarter profit, and the software maker forecast growth for the current financial year.
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Verizon agreed to sell phone lines in 14 states to Frontier Communications in a cash-and-stock deal worth $8.6 billion, tripling that company's size.
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Options traders were quick to take positions in retail companies after the Commerce Department reported a drop in monthly sales.
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With consumer confidence perking up and summer just around the corner, it may be time to go shopping -- for a retail stock.
To one scholar, cultural elements of Nascar may be descended from medieval times, when people came to make merry before the joust.
A judge slams plaintiffs lawyers' torts-for-import game.
If you're a mid-career woman who wants to make a change, where should you begin? Columnist Alexandra Levit on how you can reinvent yourself.
Corus's warning that it could be placed into receivership by regulators has set off a scramble among real-estate investors hoping to pick up its nonperforming loans.
For laid-off workers, launching a business may seem the best path to survival. Here are the stories of five people who are taking that route -- and the lessons they’ve learned.
Minute-by-minute analysis of the series-deciding game between Washington and Pittsburgh.
Snipi organizes online-shopping results by gathering, or "snipping," product information from Web pages and saving the information to lists.
If the march toward ever-greater globalization and trade ends or slows significantly, look to changes being contemplated in rules for global finance.
Lesser vassals are commanded to hail the dynasty in Detroit.
The battle over the fortune of a billionaire made famous by pigtails, miniskirts and bobby socks is a convoluted tale of money, love, kidnapping and allegations of forged wills.
The distinctive, elegant Saratoga Avenue Community Center in Brooklyn manages to break just about every deadly rule of conventional public building design.
The CDC's daily figure of 100 flu-related deaths is flawed, since the tallies are based on incomplete death certificates, writes Carl Bialik.
L.A. punishes Yao-less Rockets. Plus: Comebacks for the Celtics (in a game) and Bruins (in a series); revenge in Toronto; and more.