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Stocks were down slightly mid-session Friday, having given up an early rally that came after a week of volatility in global markets.

“Potentially billions of dollars are at stake, and that gets people’s attention.”

The U.S. Naval Academy saw the most sexual harassment claims last year of the three U.S. armed service academies that saw jumps in the number of sexual assaults reported.

A new app on the Windows Store suggests Redmond may be planning its own mobile data service.

Ted Cruz said Thursday the Obama administration should undertake a retroactive assessment of all refugees who have arrived in the U.S. from “high-risk countries.”

The economy added 292,000 jobs in December — finishing 2015 with 2.7 million for the year, which is lower than last year’s total of 3.1 million — as wages remain subdued and unemployment holds steady at 5 percent.

Friday would have been his 81st birthday.

On Friday, Asian and European markets traded mostly higher, capping a week that saw over $2 trillion wiped from global assets.

The past year saw deals worth nearly $4.3 trillion — significantly above the previous peak, before the financial crisis, according to a Thursday report.

Despite the continuing turmoil in global markets, hiring in the services sector is expected to have continued at a strong pace in December.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Friday that Ali Saqr killed his mother after she had been allegedly "inciting her son to leave the Islamic State."

The missile was sent to Havana instead of Florida, and authorities fear the incident could have led to loss of sensitive information, according to the Wall Street Journal.

A heavily annotated edition of Adolf Hitler's semi-autobiographical tome will hit German bookshops Friday for the first time in 70 years.

Pyongyang’s move follows South Korea’s propaganda broadcasts, which began Friday in response to North Korea's claim to have successfully tested a hydrogen bomb.

Indexes climbed early Friday as the country suspended a circuit breaker in an attempt to reassure investors worried by a yuan devaluation.

In a one-hour meeting on CNN called "Guns in America," the president explained his recently announced executive actions.

As is typical for most highly-publicized political events, Thursday night’s town hall meeting was a hot topic on Twitter.

Weapon sales are soaring in 2016, after a record-breaking 2015 that saw the firearms industry prosper in a year of mass shootings.

FBI officials have reportedly apprehended several suspects with alleged ties to the Islamic State group.

Demonstrators were anticipated at the site of the president's Thursday event on CNN at George Mason University in Virginia.

In a town hall meeting Thursday on CNN, the president is explaining his planned executive actions. Click here for a live stream.