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The top after-market NYSE gainers on Thursday are: Horizon Lines, Eastman Chemical, Netsuite, MEMC Electronic Materials, Leggett & Platt, Suntech Power Holdings, Yingli Green Energy Holding, Renesola, LDK Solar Co and Curtiss-Wright Corp.

The Justice Department has filed a lawsuit in federal court in San Juan, Puerto Rico, charging the Puerto Rico Department of Justice (PRDOJ) with employment discrimination for failing to provide a reasonable accommodation to an employee with a disability, as required by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).

Toys 'R Us will be selling the iPad 2 in 31 states and Puerto Rico starting on Sunday, in a limited roll-out to only some of its stores.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first test to help diagnose people with signs and symptoms of dengue fever or dengue hemorrhagic fever. Manufactured by Seattle-based Inbios Inc., the DENV Detect IgM Capture ELISA test detects antibodies to dengue virus in blood samples from patients who have signs and symptoms of dengue.

Shares of Bed Bath & Beyond, Inc. (NASDAQ: BBBY) touched a new life-time high of $55.17 on Thursday. The company reported a 25 percent growth in fourth quarter earnings, which came in ahead of its expectations as well as Street view.

It would be a surprise if the U.S. Federal Reserve did not complete its $600 billion in bond purchases, though the benefits of doing more have fallen, a top Fed official said on Friday.

The U.S. economy may add jobs more rapidly in coming months as the recovery gathers steam, but that is not a reason for the Federal Reserve to reverse course, a top Fed official said on Friday.

Indicating the distressing trend of size zero has gone global, a new research has found how stigmatization of fat and obesity has spread from western countries across more accepting cultures.

Despite the huge growth in the Latino population in the U.S., that has not translated into significant political power.

Shares of companies active in Monday's early trade are: Walgreen, Canadian Pacific Railway, Netflix Inc., Express Inc., Molycorp and St. Jude Medical.

Yale researchers have discovered prejudice is a trait humans have retained from their evolutionary predecessors.

A moderate earthquake has struck the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico, according to Red Sismica de Puerto Rico (Puerto Rico’s Seismic Network).

The campaign is planned to be featured in the advertising and on the concert entry tickets of Martin's shows in over 70 cities.

Bobby Knight recently used profanity on the air, but he has a long list of more egregious abuses

.Japanese car maker Mazda is recalling more than 50, 00 Mazda 6 cars in US after finding out spider web in the vents and another 15,000 vehicle in Canada, Mexico and Puerto Rico.

The home improvement retailer is set to give significant boost to job creation in the economy, hiring over 60000 seasonal associates to cope with the demands of a busy spring season.

AT&T, which is losing its hold on the iPhone to Verizon, has introduced a new feature to its customers that offers unlimited calling to any mobile number in the United States. AT&T's new offer is an attempt to counter an impending switch of iPhone customers to Verizon, which will be debuting iPhone 4 starting today.

If people on Earth want to talk to aliens, we may have to change our tune - or at least the way we broadcast it. And we may need a crowd to help figure out what to do.

After its last high-profile cloud-computing launch, the Office 365, Microsoft has announced that Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online, its cloud-based CRM offering, will be available worldwide.

A man who had hijacked a Puerto Rico-bound Pan American flight 281 to Cuba four decades ago and then voluntarily returned to the United States in October 2009 and surrendered to federal authorities so that he could see his family again, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison without parole.

U.S. stock index futures fell on Friday despite strong quarterly results from JPMorgan Chase & Co as the Dow Industrials and S&P 500 looked to close out a seventh week of gains.