Nissan Motor Co. said Monday it will begin conducting a voluntary recall of more than 50,000 Sentra vehicles, fearing that a faulty positive battery terminal could stall the vehicles while in motion.
Shares of silver mining companies got hammered Monday as the futures price of the metal fell on dimming prospects from China and Europe that next year will bring any improvement in demand.
Prices for silver and palladium, the two precious metals with the most industrial applications, fell Monday on growing evidence of weakening demand from China and a possible recession in Europe.
A life-threatening and dangerous winter storm is expected to hammer New Mexico and the High Plains areas of far northeast Colorado, Oklahoma, Texas and Kansas until Tuesday, weather.com reported on Monday.
A major winter storm is moving towards the U.S. Southern Plains, forecasters say. Heavy snow and blizzard conditions are expected to set in through southwestern Kansas, central and eastern Texas and Oklahoma.
The fate of an expiring tax break for 160 million American workers was in doubt on Sunday after the top Republican lawmaker declared his opposition to a two-month extension passed overwhelmingly by the Senate.
The storm will bring snow through the Midwest and Northeast before ending, but it's the Southwest that is expected to be particularly hard less than a week before Christmas a holiday travel begins for some. The storm is still devloping, and the total impact is unclear, but it does appear late Sunday afternoon that into Monday parts of the region could get hammered.
The second Scarlett Johansson steps out into the spotlight with a member of the opposite sex, she is rumored to be dating him. But now having been spotted several times with U.K. rocker Dan White, the Daily Mirror is convinced the couple are officially dating.
The U.S. Senate OK'd on Saturday a $1 trillion bill to fund the government and a two-month extension of the payroll-tax cut, capping a contentious political year while preparing the arena for a fresh battle in 2012.
An oil-drilling rig with 67 crew members on board capsized and sank off the Russian Far East island of Sakhalin when it ran into a storm while being towed, and 51 of the crew were unaccounted for, Russian news agencies reported on Sunday.
Canada's National Energy Board said on Thursday that any company that wants to drill for oil and gas in Arctic waters will need to demonstrate it has the capacity to sink a relief well in the same drilling season to cope with possible well blowouts
Torex Gold Resources said it signed long-term lease agreements with land holders for construction and mining at its Morelos gold project in Mexico, paving the way for commercial production at the site.
Though he continues to lag in national polls, Rick Perry is launching a massive comeback effort in Iowa, which will hold the nation's first caucuses on Jan. 3. Here is an overview of his positions.
ConocoPhillips stole the show at Wednesday's Gulf of Mexico Lease sale with the largest bid an oil company has ever made for a single tract of Gulf real estate.
Congress passed new legislation on Tuesday that would give the Federal Communications Commission the authority to auction off television companies' broadband spectrum, so it can be reallocated for mobile and internet companies.
The U.S. Department of the Interior on Wednesday will open up the first sale of Gulf Coast leases. The offering has garnered a larger list of players than during the previous sale.
Mexican police arrested Los Zetas boss Raul Lucio Hernandez Lechuga -- also known as Z-16 and El Lucky -- on Sunday.
ConocoPhillip's Bohai Bay oil spill may be over, but like its British counterpart in the Gulf of Mexico, the U.S. super major's Chinese subsidiary has not seen the end of litigation in the wake of its Chinese spill.
A simple new online music service will launch across Europe and North America this week aimed at the millions who like music but struggle with the technology to find and listen to it.
Canadian miner Endeavour Silver Corp said it has discovered two high-grade silver-gold zones at its Guanajuato mine in Mexico and expects a substantial increase in reserves and resources at the mine at the year-end.
Senate Republicans Monday blocked Mari Carmen Aponte, President Obama's choice to be ambassador to El Salvador, stating there were unresolved questions about whether Cuban intelligence officials tried to recruit her as a spy in the 1990s.
Ron Paul's 2012 presidential aspirations are hurt by his foreign policy stance. Or so say the polls.
