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Jeremy Lin is officially a member of the Houston Rockets. These pictures and video of him receiving his new uniform and the ensuing press conference Thursday in Houston prove it.

Sylvia Woods, founder of Harlem's famous soul food restaurant, Sylvia's had died at the age of 86, according to a statement issued by her family.The Legendary restaurateur was best known internationally as the Queen of Soul Food, with her New York restaurant located at 126th St. and Lenox Ave., near the Apollo Theater.

The New York Jets coach has gone from 348 to 242 pounds after a lap-band surgery two years ago.

Snooki met former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich and she was quite smitten with him, calling him cute and nice. The two crossed paths on Jay Leno's Tonight Show and really seemed to hit it off.

Tom Davis, the beloved comedic writer from the early days of Saturday Night Live, died at the age of 59 on Thursday.

U.S. existing home sales unexpectedly fell in June, according to the National Association of Realtors, raising fresh doubts about the housing recovery. Here are five important trends taken from the numbers.

After activist investor Bill Ackman of Pershing Square Capital Management said he expects to make 15 to 20 times his investment in beleaguered Plano, Texas-based retail giant J.C. Penney Company, Inc. (NYSE:JCP), stock in the company hit a ten day high.

Do you prefer rooftop terraces to big backyards, an evening at the theater to a night on the couch, or coffee at a café instead of a cup of tea at home alone? If so, you may want to check out one of the cities on Coldwell Banker’s new survey of America’s top 10 markets for “social seekers.”

Now three days into running Yahoo (Nasdaq: YHOO), the No. 3 search engine, CEO Marissa Mayer has already telegraphed that change is coming. She appointed the first editors for Yahoo News and Yahoo Finance, two of the company’s most popular portals.

The Yankees have looked into trading for Justin Upton.

Celebrity Chef Gordon Ramsay, has been named the highest earning chef in the U.S with a global income of $38 million, according to Forbes.

The presidential race continues to be a tossup, with several new polls showing a split electorate and a persistent sense of gloom about the fitful economic recovery.

A New York-based advocacy group found that nearly 40 laws enacted across 15 states this year have the potential to restrict women's access to reproductive health care, nearly 40 years after the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Roe v. Wade made the controversial procedure legal.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner appeared on a CNBC-sponsored conference Wednesday morning toeing the government's party that the New York Fed is not to blame for helping keep the evolving LIBOR rate-fixing scandal under wraps, even though they knew it was going on since at least 2007.

In an echo from the final weeks of Saddam Hussein's reign in Iraq in 2003, Syrian President Bashar al Assad has reportedly retreated to his tribal homeland as rebels advance on Damascus.

Mellanox Technologies, Asset Acceptance Capital, Bank of America, Infosys, Credit Suisse Group, Pluristem Therapeutics, Yum! Brands, Deutsche Bank and Perrigo Co are among the companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trading Thursday.

The biggest drought the U.S. has seen since 1988 just became the biggest drought since 1956 as the dry and the heat spread to 55 percent of the Lower 48.

A financial disparity has emerged between popular health-conscious grocery stores and their more mundane rivals, a gap that's expected to widen as the millenial generation replaces the baby boomers as the dominant consumer consumer force.

Crude oil prices advanced to a seven-week high Thursday, helped by firmer Asian stock markets and geopolitical tensions.

The top after-market NYSE gainers Wednesday were Emulex Corp, New York Times, Tempur-pedic International, International Business Machines and Titan International. The top after-market NYSE losers were Greenhill & Co, Convergys, Whiting USA, Stryker Corp and Diana Shipping.

Israel accused Iran of carrying out a bomb attack that killed six people on a bus carrying Israeli tourists at a Bulgarian airport Wednesday, and vowed a stern response to Iranian terror.