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The sequester isn't affecting each gender equally, and the disparity increases when income is factored in.

Terrence Howard has love scenes with Oprah Winfrey in "The Butler" and said it was wonderful because of her "tig ol' bitties" and "voluptuous figure."

INRIX Gridlock Index says traffic congestion increases as companies ship more, hire more and as consumers spend more.

Longtime Communist allies China and North Korea may be experiencing a rift in their relationship as the former agrees to sanctions.

The benchmark Dow Jones Industrial Average stock index set a record high Tuesday, pushing through the 14,164 level reached in Oct. 2007.

Three years after it nearly sold its ailing German auto company, GM says it's committed to turning it around.

The March ISM reports shows that the services sector grew 0.8 percent in February to 56 percent.

NBA Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant has a new nickname, "Vino," since he is 34 years old and still a top player in the league.

Nokia Corp, Alcatel Lucent, Rio Tinto, United States Steel, Weyerhaeuser and J.C. Penney Co prevailed in the pre-market trading Tuesday.

China's version of the the 2013 Forbes Billionaires list suggests that hundreds of Chinese billionaires are not being accounted for.

The U.S. stock index futures point to a higher open Tuesday ahead of the publication of the ISM's non-manufacturing PMI.

China’s outgoing premier, Wen Jiabao, hiked defense and security budgets while assuring stable growth in his final report.

According to a report, Samsung Galaxy S4 will feature a new mechanism that would track the users’ eye movements to scroll down a page.

The United States and China have a tentative deal on a sanctions resolution to punish North Korea for its third nuclear test, U.N. diplomats say.

A bipartisan group of senators is backing a bill to create specific federal prohibitions on gun trafficking and the straw purchasing of firearms.

Final results of the presidential election in Kenya are yet to be released, but a provisional tally shows Uhuru Kenyatta in the lead.

Manchester United and Real Madrid face off for a spot in the Champions League quarterfinals.

A Harvard surgeon that restored the voices of Julie Andrews, Steven Tyler and Adele is a bit of a rock star himself.

Rep. Randy Hultgren has introduced a bill that would promote abstinence education for teens, at the cost of half a billion dollars

Mexico's manufacturing boom continued with Superior Industries International announcing a factory in the nation.

The Pirate Bay torrent site announced Sunday that it had been booted from Norway and was moving its traffic to North Korea, where it had been granted virtual asylum. Too bad it was all just a hoax, according to a report that emerged Tuesday.