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Who is Goldman Sachs? Wall Street's top investment bank, or a company that treats its clients like muppets in order to make as much profit as possible? And what does that mean for the rest of us?

Taking both Nokia and Microsoft's hope forward, the all new Nokia Lumia 900 hit AT&T store shelves Sunday at a price tag of $99 with a two-year contract. The Windows smartphone has an eye-catching unibody design, coupled with key features like LTE support, vivid 4.3-inch screen and an 8 megapixel camera, but what does make a difference is its attractive price.

Man discovered the use of fire and learned to control it for cooking purposes much earlier than it was thought before, evidence found in a cave in South Africa suggests.

A student at an Ohio school has filed a lawsuit in the federal court against the school authorities for prohibiting him from wearing a T-shirt bearing the slogan Jesus is Not a Homophobe.

Despite the list of complaints and two weeks after the magazine said the device runs significantly hotter than previous models, Consumer Reports in a recent ranking release claimed that the Apple's New iPad 3 is the best tablet among all the other manufacturers in the industry. Here are five reasons why Apple's device, even with all the negative image build-up has bested other tablets in the market.

Crude oil prices declined in Asian trade Wednesday as the Federal Reserve released minutes from a recent meeting dashed hopes for a fresh dose of quantitative easing (QE3) in the near future.

Asian stock markets declined Wednesday after details from the Federal Reserve's most recent policy meeting suggest that the central bank was backing away from further monetary easing.

Mitt Romney is poised to become the Republican nominee to take on Obama in the coming US presidential election.

Jenna Talackova, the Miss Universe Canada contestant who was disqualified from the pageant because she is transgender, has spoken out against Donald Trump and the pageant's organizers.

She didn't mention the U.S. central bank's two previous rounds of bond-buying known as quantitative easing, but Lagarde stressed that past action by the Fed and European regulators helped keep growth strong and steady.

A dozen U.S. companies have agreed to disclose more about their lobbying efforts in return for avoiding public showdowns at their annual meetings, a sign of growing traction for corporate governance reforms this year.

Stocks fell on Tuesday, with the S&P 500 retreating from four-year highs after the U.S. Federal Reserve said it was less inclined to provide more economic stimulus.

The U.S. department in charge of land-based federal oil and gas drilling is getting a face-lift for the digital era, the Obama administration announced Tuesday. That may speed up the granting of permits dramatically

The U.S. economy likely notched up a fourth month of solid job growth in March, which would lower the need for the Federal Reserve to offer additional monetary stimulus to spur faster economic growth.

The U.S. economy likely notched up a fourth month of solid job growth in March, which would lower the need for the Federal Reserve to offer additional monetary stimulus to spur faster economic growth.

Last month, North Korea invited 14 scientists from eight different countries -- five alone from the U.S. -- to attend a conference with 75 North Korean scientists, and provide their expertise on restoring the country's environment and securing domestic food supplies.

The US National Weather Service has issued tornado warnings for much of Northern Texas as at least two tornadoes reportedly touched down in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

U.S. employers probably hired more than 200,000 workers for the fourth straight month in March, economists said in anticipation of a report this week, pointing to another strong performance in the labor market.

Washington Wizards rookie Chris Singleton defended his decision to by $10,000 in lotto tickets.

In 2001, when she was 11, Cassandra Ann Kennedy lied about her father raping her. Her father, Thomas Edward Kennedy, denied the charge, but a jury convicted him and sentenced him to more than 15 years in prison. After coming clean in January, her father was finally released from prison, but Cassandra Ann Kennedy will not be brought to justice for her horrendous lies, a fact that has started a major furor among observers who believe she should be put in prison for wrongly causing her father to ro...

Amazon.com Inc is trying to grab some of the billions of advertising dollars spent each year by consumer packaged goods companies including Kimberly-Clark Corp, as the world's largest Internet retailer seeks new sources of revenue growth.