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The euro-to-dollar exchange rate recovered Monday from the lows seen late Friday, when the European currnecy nearly touched multiyear lows. Still, the rise appeared to spring mostly from technical retracements, as tradersbelieve Greece will soon be forced to exit the currency union.

Kelly Clarkson debuted a slimmer figure at the 2012 Billboard Music Awards during her performance of Dark Side Sunday night, sporting a hot-pink cutout gown that showed off her weight loss. View the slideshow to see photos of Kelly Clarkson and her dramatic weight loss.

President Obama and U.S. NATO allies agreed Monday to end all combat missions in Afghanistan and transfer security responsibilities to the country's armed forces next summer after more than a decade of war.

NBC national correspondent Amy Robach is leaving the peacock network for ABC News, where she'll be a New York-based correspondent, ABC announced Monday.

Kristen Wiig is leaving SNL, after seven zany years creating some of the shows most memorable recurring characters.

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a case on whether attorneys, journalists and human rights groups have standing to challenge the government's expanded power to spy on international communications.

Back in the day a million dollars would buy you a solid piece of Manhattan real estate, now it can buy you a 12 foot parking space.

Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Monday to restructure $3.1 billion in debt and reduce annual interest costs by around $250 million.

Facebook's stock tumbled down past its offering price in morning trading on Monday, May 21, and stayed below that level, following a less than stellar debut. Wall Street insiders are attacking the much-hyped social network stock saying that they essentially scared away investors.

China can now bypass Wall Street when buying U.S. government debt and go straight to the U.S. Treasury, in what is the Treasury's first-ever direct relationship with a foreign government, according to documents viewed by Reuters.

Mitt Romney surrogate and real estate mogul Donald Trump disagrees with the presumed Republican nominee on using Rev. Jeremiah Wright in attack ads against President Obama.

Former CEO of Yahoo (Nasdaq: YHOO), the No. 3 search engine Scott Thompson resigned as a director of Spunk (Nasdaq: SPLK), a week after quitting his job at Yahoo.

Researchers found that more than 2,000 defendants who were falsely convicted of serious crimes have been exonerated in the past 23 years.

Billionaire Carl Icahn raised his share in CVR Energy Inc. (NYSE: CVI) to 80 percent and is completing the replacement of the nine-member board of directors after winning the support of shareholders in the Texas-based refiner and marketer of transportation fuels.

Led by New York's Eric Schneiderman, a group of 23 Democratic and Republican attorneys general asked the U.S. Supreme Court Monday to uphold Montana's ban on direct corporate spending in local campaigns.

Tomislav Nikolic, a former extreme-nationalist who now leads the Serbian Progressive Party, was named the victor of Sunday's presidential elections in Serbia, beating incumbent President Boris Tadic of the Democratic Party.

Graduation speeches don't always have to be a bore. Here are seven graduation addresses delivered to the Class of 2012 that imparted nuggets of wisdom. Others just plain made us laugh and some mixed both sound advice with comedic moments.

Are Erin Andrews and Chace Crawford dating? The word on the street is that the ESPN it girl and Gossip Girl guy have been seen out together in New York City a number of times recently.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) suspended its share-buyback program on Monday, a move CEO Jamie Dimon said was intended to preserve capital.

JPMorgan Chase & Co Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon said on Monday that the bank had suspended repurchases of its stock, but is maintaining its dividend, while working down losing trades in credit derivatives.

The labor organizer who became a major voice in the late U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedy's successful 1994 U.S. Senate campaign against Mitt Romney resurfaced in another Obama re-election ad that hits Romney on his record at Bain Capital.