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The world's largest retailer said it would stop selling Amazon's Kindle tablets.

The news that Bank of America was speeding up the layoffs of 16,000 workers aroused fear on Wall Street.

Small business owners in India are striking over fears that the entry of global retail outlets would force them out of business.

Our leaders do this from time to time -- convince themselves they can change the ways of an authoritarian ruler and, through a mix of logic, sweet talk, and carrots, convince him to do what we’d like.

U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, the face of Romney's new ad, said the Republican Medicare plan will work if younger Americans accept changes to the system.

Thursday's purchasing managers' indexes, or PMIs, reignited fears about global growth prospects, as no country can remain unscathed from the euro zone debt crisis.

Federal and local authorities are clashing over a proposal to use eminent domain to fix mortgages.

Racial integration in American schools has decreased over the last few decades, with black and Latino students becoming increasingly likely to be isolated from their white peers.

Alex Morgan, the 23-year-old U.S. soccer star who is celebrating on a victory tour after winning the gold medal at the London Olympics, is prepping up to be the future face of the women’s national team.

As outrage over the "Innocence of Muslims" film and controversial cartoons published in Paris rages here's a sample of opinions being expressed in regional media outlets.

Mitt Romney campaigns in Florida, like Obama, while his wife hits two other swing states in the Midwest.

Protests erupted in Kabul Thursday for the first time against the cartoons published Wednesday by a French weekly even as the protests against U.S. over an anti-Islamic video continued.

For an artist craving for inspiration, even the unmanned aerial vehicles or the drones used by the U.S. to fight insurgents could be a source of poetic charm while the human casualties they have caused in Pakistan’s northern province take a backseat.

The U.S. stock index futures point to a lower open Thursday as investor concerns about the faltering global economic growth were revived following Japan’s increasing trade deficit.

With the introduction of the new Maps platform and Passbook app to iOS 6, the latest version of its mobile operating system, Apple has extended the reach of its smartphone and tablet ecosystem, helping drive the company’s app store revenue up by nearly 70 percent by the end of this year, according to a new iSuppli report.

Early in-person voting for the presidential elections will begin in Idaho and South Dakota Friday, even as the Democrats and Republicans are engaged in court battle on the issue of limiting such early voting before the actual date of the elections.

China's manufacturing activity stabilized in September compared to August, according to the preliminary HSBC Flash Purchasing Managers Index released Thursday.

Asian markets fell Thursday as investor confidence was weighed down by the report that Japan's trade deficit increased in August, raising more concerns about the faltering global economy.

Nike Inc (NKE.N) is beefing up its capacity to use its cash to purchase its own shares, with the board of the world's largest sportswear maker approving an $8 billion buyback program.