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Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner said Wednesday he won’t serve in a second Obama Administration because he doesn’t expect to be invited to continue.

A huge banner in Davos trumpets India's launch of a $35 tablet computer and U.S. group Medtronic Inc is hoping to launch a similar low-cost revolution in medical devices like pacemakers.

After Jessica Buchanan's rescue from Somali pirates by the elite Navy force, everyone wants to know: who is SEAL Team 6? Find out what missions SEAL Team 6 has been involved in, how it operates, and what one former sniper thinks of President Obama's work with SEAL Team 6 on the Osama bin Laden raid.

Heather Peters, a Honda Hybrid car owner, has brought the auto giant to court claiming the car has failed to deliver the promised mileage. However, the judge presiding over the case is seeking more information before he allows the complaint to proceed.

Immigration has once again roiled the Republican presidential primary, as Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney trade barbs while courting Latino voters in Florida.

Concluding a two day meeting, the Fed released it's plans for monetary policy through 2014 today. Fed plans to keep the interest rate near zero through 2014.

The Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival line-up and tour dates were released Wednesday. The fifth annual Mayhem Festival 2012 will feature Slipknot, Slayer and another major special guest. The festival is the world's largest heavy metal tour.

Gold rallied 2 percent on Wednesday, rising above $1,700 an ounce for the first time since mid-December after the U.S. Federal Reserve said it will likely not raise rates for longer than previously expected due to a sluggish economic recovery.

The arrival of the man known as the Warren Buffett of North on Research In Motion's board this week offers a ray of hope to the BlackBerry maker's impatient shareholders after their disappointment that an insider was named new chief executive.

The United States has a huge budget deficit, so taxes are going to have to go up. I certainly agree that they should have to go up more on the rich than everyone else. That's just justice, Gates said on Wednesday while discussing President Obama's State of the Union address.

In the final days before his assassination in 1963, secret tapes reveal President John F. Kennedy chillingly predicted that Nov. 25--the day that ended up being his funeral--would be a tough day.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has been a leading critic of a deal with the nation's largest mortgage servicers over improper foreclosure practices.

It Romney were an athlete, he would be somewhere in the middle of the pack.

Tech giant Apple sold 15.4 million iPads in the last quarter, even exceeding analysts' expectations of 13 million units, according to the company's fiscal report released Tuesday.

Starbucks, the world's largest coffee-shop chain, is projected to report stronger fiscal first-quarter profit as sales of new offerings have offset higher costs for coffee beans.

More than half the recent global investment in commercial real estate found a home in just 30 cities with a quarter spent in London, Tokyo, New York, Hong Kong and Paris, according to real estate services company Jones Lang LaSalle .

Global growth is slowing rapidly and the possibility of ample economic slack means risks of damaging deflation are rising in some G20 member economies, the International Monetary Fund said in a paper published on Wednesday.

An Academy Award nomination is stuff dreams are made of, she said.

The 2012 solar storm may have created a spectacular show of northern lights for sky watchers, but it caused great inconvenience for airlines, such as Delta, Quantas and Air Canada, forcing them to divert some of their Arctic flights.

Steve Jobs said 'nobody wants a stylus' when he announced the iPhone back in 2007. Ever since then, most tablet makers have taken the idea of 'if it comes with a stylus you're doing it wrong' and run with it. Sure some of the slate style tablets sold to businesses included a stylus, but the most popular devices over the last few years have been of the decidedly non-stylus variety, including the iPad.

Obama's task heading into the speech was threefold: list his administration's accomplishments; lay out his agenda the coming year; and give Congress a gentle scolding. It was praised by scholars but was it effective?