President Barack Obama announced Friday the creation of a new federal inter-agency group charged with ensuring the nation's natural gas resources are developed safely.
U.S. stocks fell on Friday and were on track to end a second straight week lower as concerns about the pace of global growth sparked a selloff in financial shares.
With a single ruling this week, U.S. District Judge James Robart of Seattle federal court may have fundamentally altered the balance of power between Motorola Mobility and the leading opponents of Motorola's soon-to-be-parent Google, Microsoft and Apple.
Mitt Romney will address the National Rifle Association, or NRA, on Friday along with candidate Newt Gingrich.
Analysts expect quarterly revenue of $19.85 billion, which would be a bump up from the $19.73 billion Citi posted a year ago. Net income is expected to be 99 cents a share, compared with $1 a share in the first quarter of 2011.
A Japanese woman, nicknamed the Black Widow, has been sentenced to death for murdering three former lovers in 2009.
Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives will revive efforts to quickly advance the stalled Keystone XL crude oil pipeline and insist that approval for the project be part of a long-term deal to fund highways and other infrastructure.
Wall Street was on track to end the week lower on Friday as the rising cost of insuring Spanish debt against default increased worries about Europe's financial health, sparking a selloff in financial stocks.
The defendants are the first to be charged with committing a hate crime in violation of the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crime Prevention Act.
A preliminary survey of consumer confidence for April shows the lackluster job creation seen in March is playing into people's pessimism more than economists had expected. But a recent, tiny, decline in gasoline prices, following a dizzying climb at the beginning of the year, is at least making consumers feel better about inflation and hence, expectations for the future.
President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden released their 2011 tax returns, a personal turn in the debate about tax policy.
A surge in mortgage banking income lifted Wells Fargo & Co's first-quarter profit by 13 percent, but its shares fell on concern that the bank is falling behind on its drive to cut expenses.
Alabama's tough new immigration law has faced a torrent of criticism, and Alabama lawmakers are debating new legislation that supporters say will address those concerns.
Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ), the No. 1 PC vendor, kept its crown in the first quarter and added share as worldwide PC shipments rose 1.9 percent, market researcher Gartner (NYSE: IT) said.
Newark, NJ Mayor Cory Booker on Friday said he doesn't feel like a hero, after rescuing a neighbor form a burning building, but that he did what anyone else would have done.
Volkswagen Group’s global first-quarter sales surpassed 2 million vehicles for the first time in the company’s history as North American and Chinese sales rose dramatically, the company announced Friday.
The wives and children of former al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden will be deported from Pakistan to Saudi Arabia next week.
Nissan Motor Co. will invest as much as 40 billion yen, $494 million, to build a fourth Chinese factory through its joint venture with Dongfeng Motor Group Co., Nikkei reported Friday.
Deutsche Telekom is considering a bid for regional cable company Tele Columbus to shore up its position in its key home market against competition from rivals Liberty Global and Kabel Deutschland, sources told Reuters.
Among smokers, people who prefer mentholated cigarettes tend to have more strokes than non-menthol smokers - and this seems to be especially true for women and non-African Americans, according to a North American study.
The Marine Corps. has identified the two Marines killed in the crash of an MV-22 Osprey in Morocco on Wednesday, as Cpls. Robby Reyes and Derek Kerns.
British Prime Minister David Cameron and Myanmar's democratic leader Aung San Suu Kyi Friday said that sanctions on Myanmar should be suspended, not lifted, to continue the reform process.
