Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said central bankers “remain prepared” to act as needed to aid growth even as they get ready to eventually raise interest rates from almost zero and shrink a record balance sheet.

Bristol Palin (R) stands with her boyfriend Levi Johnston during the arrival of US Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain (R-AZ) at the airport in Minneapolis, Minnesota September 3, 2008.

WASHINGTON - Tightening the screws on North Korea, the Obama administration said Wednesday it would expand and strengthen sanctions against the isolated regime and its nuclear weapons program, a tactic which in the past has been undercut by North ...

The US Senate voted on July20, 60-40 to end a Republican-led filibuster of legislation that would extend unemployment benefits for an estimated 2.5 million Americans.

News around this week's AIDS 2010 international conference has been coming fast and furious, with results showing a gel capable of blocking HIV, the promise of antiretroviral drugs to prevent infection, and earlier, the discovery of two naturally ...

Facebook now has a half-billion active users, founder Mark Zuckerberg announced Wednesday, and he's providing a new service to let each and every one of them "tell their own story.

CHICAGO -- Astros owner Drayton McLane told MLB.com on Wednesday morning the club is not close to making any trades, despite published reports stating that the team had been in serious negotiations with the Phillies about a ...

NEW YORK - Aid convoys like the May 31 Gaza flotilla “are not helpful to resolving the basic economic problems in Gaza and needlessly carry the potential for escalation,” according to a briefing the UN under-secretary-general for ...

Palo Alto, Calif. based Flipboard launched what it called the "first social magazine" for the iPad Wednesday, however it quickly found out that a much-hyped launch can lead to trouble in keeping the ...

By KC Bailey, Columbia Pictures By Claudia Puig, USA TODAY "I didn't do anything," mutters Angelina Jolie as the indestructible, mysterious CIA operative Salt, as she jumps off a bridge onto the roof of a moving car.

LONDON - Scottish ministers Wednesday defended their decision to free the Lockerbie bomber after renewed US anger over the release threatened to spoil the premier's first visit to the White House.

Harvard University researchers discovered how GlaxoSmithKline Plc's diabetes drug Avandia works to prevent the illness, a step that may show the way to develop less-toxic drugs that are just as effective.

The folks at USC are sending back to Manhattan the replica of Reggie Bush's Heisman Trophy. It remains to be seen whether the genuine article will be repossessed from Saints running back Reggie Bush.

Are you one of the lucky ones who snagged a Droid X at launch before they were all sold out? Maybe you're hoping to grab Motorola's newest Android phone from one of the Droid X secret stashes my colleague JR Raphael told you about.

Alabama defensive end Marcell Dareus has been declared ineligible after attending a party in Miami hosted by a sports agent, accoreding to a report by The Tuscaloosa News.

R136a1 could once have been 320 times as massive as the sun. That's twice as massive as scientists thought a star could be. Perhaps R136a1 is several stars close together, some say.

A Food and Drug Administration advisory committee Tuesday recommended that the agency withdraw its marketing approval of the blockbuster cancer drug Avastin for treating breast cancer, concluding that new trials ...

Massachusetts approved a plan Wednesday to scrap its state curriculum standards for national ones amid fierce opposition from critics who say the new guidelines will “erode” student achievement in a state that already churns out some of nation's ...