U.S. manufacturing contracted in June for the first time since July 2009 as demand fell amid the euro zone crisis, according to Institute for Supply Management data released Monday.
The Republican benign-neglect approach to health care reform during the past decade was an unwitting contributor to the situation we find ourselves in today.
The Supreme Court's decision to uphold President Obama's expansive health care overhaul has increased public support for the law, which nonetheless remained largely unpopular.
The Institutional Revolutionary Party is back in power, with a fresh face. Now it must convince observers that it has abandoned its old, corrupt ways.
Violent crime rates in the Bronx have been dropping for the past two decades -- as they have in New York City as a whole and many other U.S. big cities.
U.S. home prices rose 2 percent in May, another sign that the depressed housing market is stabilizing, data firm CoreLogic (NYSE: CLGX) said Monday.
Micron Technology (NYSE: MU), the biggest maker of memory chips in the U.S., finally signed a deal to acquire Japan?s Elpida Memory for $1.75 billion.
After accounting for the mother's age, smoking, number of previous births and other factors, researchers found an increased risk of autism, but not Asperger syndrome, in preemies and babies that were very small at birth.
An abandoned slave fort in Sierra Leone is undergoing restoration so that it can be opened to the public. Officials hope that it will generate much-needed tourism revenues in the war-torn country.
Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley will be welcoming Airbus S.A.S. to the port city of Mobile Monday morning to formally announce the opening of the European aircraft manufacturer's first assembly plant in the U.S.
The Arab League has called on the various Syrian opposition factions to unite in light of their rejection of a U.N.-brokered plan for a transitional government that, as a gesture to Russia, would possibly include President Bashar al Assad in any decision-making on the country's future government.
Sprint has kept its promise. After some holdup due to inventory issues, the carrier finally made available Samsung's latest flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S3, for in-store purchasing starting Sunday, while Verizon Wireless will reportedly ship its variant starting next week.
Brightpoint, Lincare Holdings, Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Barclays, Nokia Corp, Verizon Communications, Tata Motors and Dollar Tree are among the companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trading Monday.
U.S. stock index futures pointed to a higher open Monday as investor sentiment turned positive with indications of improvement in business conditions in Asia and also continued optimism on the measures taken at the EU summit.
Barclays Bank chairman Marcus Agius Tuesday confirmed that he had resigned over the Libor (London Inter Bank Offered Rate) inter-bank lending rate-fixing scandal.
Syrian opposition groups denounced a U.N.-sponsored international agreement to set up a transitional government in Syria, calling it ambiguous and a farce, even as U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton acknowledged that there was no guarantee that the new deal would succeed in ending the 16-month-long Syrian crisis.
Wrapping up a mission that lasted six-and-a-half months, three members of the Expedition 31 crew undocked from the International Space Station and landed safely in the steppe of Kazakhstan in the early hours Sunday.
When CBS News broke the story that U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts had first decided to vote with his fellow Supreme Court conservatives on so-called Obamacare and then changed his mind, it led to huge questions, not only about him but also about his motivations.
U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts was originally set to vote with the Supreme Court's conservative justices to strike down the Affordable Care Act, CBS News reported. However, he changed his mind about a month ago to join the court's liberal justices in mostly upholding the constitutionality of the law.
The European Union's economic sanctions on Iran became fully effective on Sunday, but the Islamic Republic's deputy oil minister claimed the country will have no difficulty finding replacements for recent EU purchasers of its crude.
Iran announced missile tests Sunday and threatened to wipe Israel off the face of the earth if the Jewish state attacked it, brandishing some of its starkest threats on the day Europe began enforcing an oil embargo and harsh new sanctions
Severe thunderstorms in Connecticut could cause further outages to ESPN's service.
