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The Justice Department issued civil subpoenas to 11 financial institutions as part of a new effort to investigate misconduct in the packaging and sale of home loans to investors, Attorney General Eric Holder said on Friday.

A new petition asking Gov. Jan Brewer to apologize to President Barack Obama has been posted online by Arizona's state Democratic organization.

Apple celebrated the second birthday of the iPad on Friday, but the tablet's success has been overshadowed by a recent report from the New York Times that exposes labor violations at Apple's supply chain in China.

ExxonMobil, the world's largest integrated oil and natural gas company, is expected to report an increase in revenue in its fourth quarter thanks to high oil prices which have helped the company overcome sluggish refining and low natural gas prices in the United States.

Artist Miguel Paredes has come a long way since his tagging days in his native New York City.

A Twitter blackout aimed at protesting censorship on the social media site is sweeping the web as its proponents urge users to go dark Saturday using the hash tag #TwitterBlackout.

The majority of real estate investment trusts (REITs) are expected to post positive earnings for the fourth quarter and fiscal year 2011 as rent growth continues, according to analysts.

Apple Inc. has never turned a blind eye to the problems in its supply chain, and any suggestion it does not care about the plight of workers is patently false, Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook said in an e-mail to employees.

A scam currently circulating offers the chance to obtain a free iPhone 5, plus a test-run before the release date.

Gold prices posted a modest gain Friday, capping a three-day rally as well as a week in which the yellow metal jumped 4.15 percent.

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder Friday announced the formation of a task force focused on probing residential mortgage-backed securities following President Barack Obama's call for a unit to probe the finance industry's conduct leading up to the financial crisis.

The redacted tape of the 911 phone call for Demi Moore was released by Los Angeles Officials on Friday in which Moore is described as convulsing, semi-conscious and burning up. Here is a full transcript of Demi Moore's 911 call on Monday. Some of the words are inaudible. You can also listen to the audio of the call.

If you weren't fortunate enough to snag the $332/month four-bedroom apartment in the Village, maybe you should consider songwriter Denise Rich's condo, which was recently put on the market for $65 million.

A week ahead of the release of her highly-anticipated debut album Born To Die, Lana Del Rey announced that she would re-release the mysterious Lizzy Grant album from 2008.

Double Happiness, a bus company that runs services from cities along the East Coast to New York City, has caused anything but happiness for federal agencies.

The case of the one-year-old boy who died in the care of his mother's boyfriend has been ruled a homicide by the New York City medical examiner.

As details continue to emerge in the Greg Kelly case, investigators are beginning to doubt allegations made by the woman who claims that Kelly raped her.

The world's biggest hedge fund Bridgewater Associates posted returns of 23 percent in 2011, in a year when most of its peers underperformed the major stock market indexes, the New York Times reported, citing people familiar with the firm's investment strategy.

Andrew Robert Levene, an American man accused of murdering a jewelry store owner in Connecticut and stealing $300,000 in diamonds was found dead in his prison cell in Spain, U.S. authorities said.

Joshua Komisarjevsky, the second individual involved in the deadly Cheshire home invasion, was officially sentenced to death on Friday.

President Barack Obama made natural gas a central part of the energy plan he detailed in his State of the Union address, taking a firm stance in a highly polarized debate about the method for extracting the fuel.