Smokers are motivated to quit, even if they don't use the arsenal of treatments and services that could help them break the habit, according to a report issued Thursday.
The Walt Disney Company posted record earnings of $4.8 billion in 2011, up 21 percent from 3.96 billion in the year earlier period, mostly attributable to success in both the cable television and broadcasting division.
The U.S. government racked up a smaller deficit in the opening month of fiscal 2012 than it did in October a year earlier, the Treasury Department said on Thursday.
For 53 cringe-inducing seconds on live television on Wednesday night, Rick Perry's brain froze. Those 53 seconds may have destroyed his presidential campaign. Here's why.
Heart doctors across the U.S. are closing up independent practices and migrating to large medical centers, forcing patients to travel farther and pay more for their care, because of reduction in Medicare slashed reimbursements, experts say.
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim has set a new standard for the modern role-playing game.
Viacom Inc's quarterly revenue and profit rose, beating estimates, due mainly to the success of the Paramount film Transformers: Dark of the Moon.
The Obama administration reportedly plans to study other routes for the Keystone XL pipeline.
Boeing Co's defense unit is bracing for the worst case scenario -- a trillion-dollar U.S. defense budget reduction over 10 years, the chief executive of the company's Defense Space and Security business said on Thursday.
Arab Spring and Royal Wedding were on Wednesday deemed the top phrases of 2011, while late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs is the year's top name, according to a global survey of the English language.
The U.S. futures regulator on Thursday said it has launched a formal investigation into bankrupt MF Global, increasing pressure on the brokerage as the search for roughly $600 million in missing funds continues.
Kohl's Corp., the fourth-largest U.S. department store chain, said Thursday its third quarter profit rose 20 percent, helped by the launch of the exclusive brands such as lines by Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony.
A private investigator in Atlanta claims that expensive voice software can prove that Herman Cain was telling the truth when he denied all sexual harassment allegations at a press conference on Tuesday, and that accuser Sharon Bialek was lying in her own press conference on Monday.
U.S. stocks rose on Thursday, rebounding from the previous day's steep losses on positive corporate news, but trading was choppy as nervous investors reacted to headlines painting a mixed picture of Europe's debt crisis.
Michael Jackson and the Doctor - A Fatal Friendship will air Friday night
Tropical bacteria produces a previously-unknown toxin that shuts down its hosts years, sometimes decades, later, researchers found.
Starbucks Corp. said it plans to open a health and wellness-focused chain next year after its acquisition of Evolution Fresh, a California-based premium juice maker, for $30 million.
Man landing on Mars and returning to the moon could happen sooner than some people may think. On Wednesday, NASA successfully tested a new rocket engine, the J-2X, that puts the organization on track for a new deep space launch in 2017.
Starbucks Corp said it plans to open a health and wellness-focused chain next year after its acquisition of Evolution Fresh, a California-based premium juice maker, for $30 million.
Gold fell on Thursday, on track for its biggest one-day loss in two weeks, as fearsabout political turmoil in Italy and a deepening euro zone debt crisis prompted investors to raise cash by liquidating somepositions in the bullion market.
Records of former President Richard Nixon's grand jury testimony about the Watergate scandal have been released by the National Archives and the Nixon Presidential Library and Museum.
Piers Morgan announced he is leaving his judge's seat on America's Got Talent next season in order to focus on other upcoming news events like the 2012 U.S. presidential election.
