The launch of Facebook Inc.'s Places location service this week sparked new privacy concerns about the popular social network, but the company's efforts to mollify critics before the launch stemmed some ...

In reaction to the announcement made by the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to resume direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians, Palestinian Authority negotiator Saeb Erekat said Friday ...

Chicago-based ShoreBank, which for more than three decades made loans to South and West siders who might not have gotten financing elsewhere to buy homes, apartment buildings and start businesses, failed Friday.

Google this week made available a developer preview of its Chrome Web Store, which enables access to Web applications. Developers, according to software engineer Michael Goth on the Google Chromium Blog, ...

By AP MANAMA, Bahrain - The imam behind a controversial plan to build a mosque near the Manhattan site of the Sept. 11 attacks, refused to discuss the political firestorm yesterday, but his wife in New York said organizers are sticking with their plans ...

NEW YORK -- The three-run lead in Felix Hernandez's back pocket before throwing his first pitch against the Yankees on Friday night put the Mariners' ace right-hander in unfamiliar territory.

The rebuilding of New Orleans has attracted a wave of Latino immigrants, redrawing racial lines in a city long defined by black and white.

Federal health experts said Friday the risks of a sleep drug from Jazz Pharmaceuticals outweigh its benefits for treating the chronic pain disorder fibroymalgia.

Jennifer Aniston and Jon Stewart reminisced about the meal they shared in NYC more than a decade ago. "Wasn't it sort of like, 'Hey, a group of us are going out, do you want to join?

Nevada's historically high unemployment rate continued to rise in July, to 14.3 percent, as the recession-battered state lost another 9600 jobs from the month before, the Nevada Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation ...

Spencer Pratt is hawking a supposed sex tape starring soon-to-be ex wife Heidi Montag, he confirms to UsMagazine.com. "I've been making films since I was in the 7th grade," Pratt tells Us exclusively.

Terrell Owens caught a 43-yard pass along the sideline, setting up the lone touchdown by Cincinnati's starting offense Friday night in a 22-9 exhibition victory over the Philadelphia Eagles.

By AP PLAN INTERRUPTED: Attorneys say the Tribune Co.'s plan to emerge from bankruptcy protection has unraveled. WHAT HAPPENED: A report by a court-appointed examiner had concluded that talks leading up to the company's 2007 leveraged buyout bordered ...

The best Jennifer Aniston film opening this month (Is it me, or has she been in a half-dozen films in the past two years?), “The Switch” is mighty predictable.

US states along the Gulf of Mexico and the federal oil-spill response on-scene coordinator, Paul Zukunft, are discussing “how clean is clean” when it comes to beaches and marshes soiled after BP ...

Jeff Roberson / AP (08-20) 20:48 PDT St. Louis - -- The Cardinals saw Madison Bumgarner for the first time Friday night and had to be impressed.

Now that Hewlett-Packard has announced plans to release a webOS tablet early next year, its next big goal--in addition to building the device--is to persuade software developers to write apps for the mobile gadget.

Symantec Corp. shares rose 3 percent Friday after UBS Securities upgraded the stock on the expectation that chip maker Intel Corp.