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California regulators on Thursday approved final regulations for a carbon market that is one of the biggest U.S. responses to climate change.

U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday said now that Moammar Gadhafi is dead, Libya has an opportunity to determine its own destiny. The Libyan government announced Gadhafi's death on Thursday after the ousted dictator was killed in what the interim Prime Minister said was crossfire between transitional government troops and those loyal to Gadhafi.

Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi's death has incited massive reaction, including on social media platforms such as Twitter. Some have been witty about him being killed; others have criticized it, including the joy and happiness brought forth. Even celebrities chimed in.

Senior Obama administration officials and a bipartisan group of U.S. senators agreed on Wednesday to push for cybersecurity legislation as quickly as possible, the White House said on Thursday.

Recovering drug addict Chris Rene will become a star thanks to The X Factor but he needs to find the right material in order to win the TV singing contest, judge Antonio L.A. Reid said on Thursday.

No longer will you have to wait for Game of Thrones or visit a fake castle to witness jousting.

The Jersey Shore gang leaves Italy Thursday night (in television, not in real life) with plenty of memories. Here are the Top 5 moments from Season 4, and it doesn't even include Snooki driving her car into a police car.

Hackers who infiltrated the Nasdaq's computer systems last year installed malicious software that allowed them to spy on the directors of publicly held companies, according to two people familiar with an investigation into the matter.

Hewlett-Packard Co's chief strategy and technology officer has retired, becoming the latest senior executive to leave the storied Silicon Valley giant struggling to restore its tarnished credibility.

The Obama administration and the regulator for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are expected to unveil new steps to help distressed homeowners in the next week or two, a senior congressional aide said on Thursday.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who had just returned from chemotherapy treatments in Cuba after being diagnosed with cancer, was a close friend and colleague of Moammar Gadhafi. He has defended the Libyan leader since the start of the uprisings in February, and accused NATO of starting a people's revolution to access Libya's oil.

Two earthquakes, one in San Francisco, Calif. and one in San Antonio, Texas, have taken place on the same day on Thursday.

Oracle Corp may use an internal Google Inc email Google fought to keep under wraps in a high stakes patent case over the Java programing language, a U.S. judge has ruled.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo Thursday picked a Joseph Lhota, an executive at Madison Square Garden and a former top aide to Mayor Rudy Giuliani, to run one of the biggest transportation agencies in the world.

Everyone has something to say about Amber Cole's story. Why? Because it raises just about every teen issue in the book: Underage sexual activity, breaking school rules, lying and bullying.

The Federal Reserve plans on sending Congress legislative recommendations on how to help the housing market recover, Senator Dianne Feinstein said on Thursday after a meeting with Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke.

The New York Yankees have scouted 25-year-old Japanese pitching sensation Yu Darvish and are open to bidding for the 6'5'', 220-pound right-hander if he goes through the posting process that's required for his early entry into Major League Baseball.

Microsoft Corp's quarterly profit rose 6 percent, meeting Wall Street's modest expectations, helped by strong sales of its popular Office applications package, but limited by only slight gains from its flagship Windows operating system.

The United States, in perhaps its strongest language since the war on terrorism started 10 years ago, warned Pakistan that it would face serious consequences if it continued to tolerate safe havens for extremist organizations that kill Americans.

Ford Motor Co said its new four-year contract with the United Auto Workers union would increase its costs less than 1 percent annually, with higher bonuses offset by newly won flexibility in work rules.

Hedge fund heavyweight John Paulson said poor performance by his funds keeps him up at night, so the billionaire stock picker must be going sleepless a lot these days.