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From the very start, the only reason we've been held hostage is because we're American - These are the words of Josh Fattal, one of the three American hikers who were arrested by the Iranian forces while hiking in the Kurdish region along the Iraq-Iran border in July, 2009.

Solar panel installer SolarCity said on Friday it was the second company in as many days that will not get finalization of U.S. government loan aid by a September 30 deadline.

Despite Friday’s small gains, the U.S. stock market tanked this week and put in its worst performance since 2008.

U.S. border police shot and wounded a man who brandished a replica pistol after being detained for barging through a border crossing from Tijuana, Mexico to San Diego, California, authorities said on Friday.

Mullen testified before a Senate panel that: The Haqqani network... acts as a veritable arm of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence Agency.

Hedge fund industry veteran Barton Biggs warned of a global double-dip recession and a 20 percent market drop if the governments do not fix the problem.

The U.S. stock market rallied from last July until the end of April this year. It stalled from May to mid-July, after which it began to plunge.

Troy Davis addressed the family of Mark MacPhail as he was put to death for killing the policeman in 1989.

A 14-year-old upstate New Yorker, Jamey Rodemeyer, was found dead outside his home this week, apparently the latest string of teenage suicides in the U.S. caused by mental harassment and bullying over sexuality, police said.

The U.S. dollar trumps virtually all other currencies in the current environment of fear because of its safe-haven status, Jan Loeys, chief market strategist at JPMorgan Chase, told Bloomberg TV.

Full Tilk Poker, an online poker company that illegally paid its board members over $440 million from its player accounts, was a global Ponzi scheme, said federal prosecutors Tuesday.

For the second time in a week's duration, the Supreme Court halted a planned execution in Texas by intervening in the final hours of the execution.

If the pardon board shows no mercy to his plea for polygraph test on Wednesday, Troy Davis will be executed on Wednesday for a murder that he claims he did not commit.

Director general of the Al-Jazeera satellite TV channel has stepped down on Tuesday after serving the network for eight years, the channel announced.

About 2.8 million jobs, both in manufacturing and high-tech fields, have been lost as a result of the growing U.S. trade deficit with China since Beijing's entry into the World Trade Organization in 2001, said an EPI study, which was denounced immediately by the US-China Joint Business Council.

The study conducted by West Virginia University researchers revealed teenagers – especially boys - when followed a regular regimen of exercise and counseling, were very likely to quit smoking.

Second-quarter U.S. installations of photovoltaic solar panels rose 17 percent from the previous quarter as increases in nonresidential and utility-scale projects offset a weakened residential solar market.

NASA astronauts will soon get their own space taxi to shuttle between the International Space Station and the Earth, the space agency said on Monday.

Joining a club of countries like Canada, Germany, Israel and the UK, the United States on Tuesday has become the 30th country to allow open military service. After a long period of 18 years, the controversial don't ask, don't tell policy banning homosexuals on serving in the U.S. military has been repealed.

Between 1960 and 2008, the percentage of eligible voters who have bothered to cast their ballots during the presidential elections have ranged from about 49 percent to 63 percent.

The charity biker festival at Tennessee turned out to be tragedy as three men and two women died inside a recreational vehicle in the campground, after they apparently inhaled fumes from a generator.