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Just as the Trayvon Martin shooting prompted a re-examination of Florida's Stand Your Ground law, the Aurora massacre could lead to more scrutiny of Colorado's laws. Here's a primer.

Bradley Wiggins moved one step closer to becoming the first British champion of the Tour de France while compatriot Mark Cavendish captured his 22nd career stage win on Friday, moving him into fourth place on the all-time list of Tour de France stage winners.

U.S. consumer spending will grow at a meager rate of 1.5 percent to 2 percent by the end of this year, Sterne Agee, a U.S. brokerage and investment firm said on Friday in a report.

Photographer and documentary filmmaker Lauren Greenfield describes Queen of Versailles as a super-sized version of what we had seen so many others struggle through in America since the start of the housing crisis.

It seems that we witness a similar massacre about once a year or so in the U.S.

Twitter posts have been rolling in from users who are so shaken up over the tragedy in Aurora, Colo., that they cannot bear the thought of seeing the film so soon.

Like Columbine, Aurora, Colorado, will likely lose its innocence as a scenic, mile-high Rocky Mountain town and become instead the scene of a tragedy.

The Federal Reserve Bank of New York is proposing that money market managers be empowered to hold back depositors' money for 30 days in the event of a run on funds. The controversial proposal is being called by critics a kind of capital control.

President Obama has been in heavy campaign mode lately, but he stayed away from politics during a Friday morning speech addressing the massacre at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado.

After learning of the tragic news from Aurora, Colo., that a lone gunman opened fire on a theatre full of local patrons in attendance of a midnight screening of The Dark Knight Rises, President Barack Obama responded to the news on Friday morning in front of a crowd in Fort Myers, Fla. We have the full transcript of President Obama's speech on the terrible tragedy.

The 2012 Olympics are finally at hand, after four long years of training and anticipation by the world's best athletes and fans of sport from every corner of the globe.

Warner Brothers, the studio behind The Dark Knight Rises, has released a response to the mass shooting during a midnight screening of the film in Aurora, Colorado.

In the aftermath of a deadly Colorado shooting, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg urged President Obama and Mitt Romney to say how they would prevent future incidents of gun violence.

A spike in whooping cough cases among 10-year-olds and adolescents who are 13 and 14 was a concern, perhaps an indicator that the pertussis vaccine may be wearing off earlier than anticipated, Washington Health Secretary Mary Selecky said.

The CDC found that about 14 percent of pregnant women ages 35 to 44 reported having at least one drink in the previous 30 days, compared to 7.6 percent for all pregnant women and just 4.5 percent for those ages 18 to 24.

The editor of Outlook denied that his publication’s cover story was a response to Time’s broadside against Singh.

General Electric Company (NYSE: GE), the largest U.S. conglomerate, said Friday its second-quarter continuing earnings rose 7 percent as strong U.S. demand for energy related equipment offset falling European demand and the effect of a strong dollar.

Here's some real good news for HTC smartphone users. The company has confirmed that it will update three of its flagship smartphone namely HTC One X, One S and One XL to Android 4.1 Jelly Bean soon, the latest version of Google's mobile operating system.

As the Muslim holy month of Ramadan begins, the Islamic world will have much to reflect upon this year. In Syria, a civil war looms if it hasn't already arrived. In Egypt, a fledgling democracy is being tested. In Afghanistan, an exhaustive American war is coming to a dubious end.

Your burger won't get cheaper any time soon, and it's not just because of the current Midwest drought. (You'll feel that next year.)

U.S. stock index futures point to a mixed opening Friday as investor sentiment remained fragile following concerns about the worsening debt crisis situation in the euro zone to hurt global economic growth.