NEW YORK

Amazon.com Inc. (Nasdaq: AMZN), the No. 1 e-retailer, said it will start renting textbooks to college students for a semester. At the end of the term, they can ship books back for free.

The S&P 500 rose above 1,400 for the first time since May 3 behind further calls for another central bank stimulus and hopes that the European Central Bank will take action.

The NYPD said in light of the recent mass shootings in Colorado and Wisconsin, it is taking a Twitter user's threat seriously. It plans to subpoena the microblogging site for the identity of the user who threatened to carry out an Aurora-style shooting at a theater in New York City.

Jonathan Roth, the son of a Massapequa, N.Y. man who was reported missing in waters off a Long Island beach and turned up five days later in South Carolina has been arrested.

Prince Harry has had the reputation of being the wilder brother between him and Prince William, and according to a new photo taken at the 2012 London Olympics, the redheaded prince is also the goofier one, too.

Thanks to Entertainment Weekly, an image of Daniel Day-Lewis as President Abraham Lincoln has emerged. The film (aptly titled “Lincoln”) is being directed by Steven Spielberg with a script courtesy of Tony Kushner (“Munich,” “Angels In America”). The method actor was last seen in the box-office disaster “Nine,” a musical adaptation of Fellini’s “8 1/2”.

Tokyo Stock Exchange became the third major stock exchange to have a trade-halting technology failure in less than a week, with some interruption during premarket action due to what the exchange operator called a "systems problem."

Marvin Hamlisch, best known for his scores to “The Sting” and “The Way We Were” (for which he won Academy Awards), has passed away at the age of 68, according to USA Today.

Sharon Osbourne, wife of mumbling rocker-turned-reality star Ozzy Osbourne, is claiming that NBC discriminated against her son Jack for revealing that he has multiple sclerosis. Osbourne, who recently announced cryptically over Twitter that she would not be returning to “America’s Got Talent,” now claims that her departure is due to NBC’s firing of her son from its upcoming show “Stars Earn Stripes” after he announced he had been diagnosed with MS.

Two F-15 fighter jets intercepted two small planes that strayed into President Barack Obama's airspace during a campaign visit to Connecticut on Monday and the planes landed without incident, media reports said.

The New York State Dept. of Financial Services has ordered Standard Chartered to explain its alleged illegal money laundering and called the UK-based a "rogue institution".

Asian stock markets advanced Tuesday on renewed hopes that the European Central Bank (ECB) will shortly take policy action to lower the peripheral bond yields of struggling nations such as Italy and Spain.

Gunman Wade Michael Page was reportedly a member of two racist bands named End Apathy and Definite Hate.

Robert Hughes, the Australian-born art critic and historian, died Monday at age 74.

Jesuit priest Paolo Dall'Oglio, who spent the last 30 years in Syria and was recently exiled, said the country still very much needs the U.N.'s help to find a peaceful solution, but the end of Bashar al-Assad's days as president is near.

This month marks two landmark anniversaries -- the deaths Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley, two of the world's most recognizable pop-culture icons, who also happen to be two of the highest-earning dead celebrities.

Attorneys deny gay rumors concerning Casper Smart. Smart is not the first famous male accused of being gay while in a heterosexual relationship

The battle between Macaulay Culkin and the National Enquirer, who reported last week of the his alleged addiction to heroin and other drugs, is heating up after the tabloid released a statement challenging the former "Home Alone" actor to a drug test despite Culkin's publicist blasting the report. The National Enquirer released the statement over the weekend to defend its original story detailing Culkin's heroin and drug addiction, even though his publicist said the report was false....

Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. (Nasdaq: NWSA), the world's third-largest media company by market capitalization, is expected to have lower fiscal fourth quarter earnings as its cable television and film revenue declines.

According to Boomer Esiason, the Jets should cut Tim Tebow. Is there any chance that new York would get rid of their new quarterback?

Though Apple hasn't specified the exact release date of iOS 6 - the site currently says it's "coming this fall" - but many believe Apple will release the platform alongside a new iPhone and possibly a new "mini iPad," which are both expected to be unveiled and released in mid-September. iOS 6 looks to be right on track for a September release date, as Apple released the fourth beta build of iOS 6 to developers, also known as Build 10A5376e, on Monday morning.