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For the third straight year, McDonald's is making America look big (in every sense of the word) with the release of four new Big America burgers in Japan.

U.S. apartment vacancies dropped to 5.2 percent in the fourth quarter, a 10-year low, as more Americans chose renting over buying, according to real estate research firm Reis.

PepsiCo Inc is considering cutting about 4,000 jobs and reducing pension contributions in order to boost its earnings, the New York Post said, citing sources close to the situation.

A press conference at MetroTech in Brooklyn, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced a complete overhaul of the current 911 system on Thursday.

Only a few weeks after their target date of the end of 2011, AT&T has switched on their 4G LTE network in NYC and San Francisco among other places. Eleven cities got their new systems turned on Jan. 5, and that brings the total number of U.S. cities under the AT&T 4G network to 26.

For the first time in beauty pageant history, not one but two openly gay women are competing for the title of Miss California 2012.

Before next week, Craftsman's largest unveiling of a new tractor wasn't very large in scope at all. It certainly wasn't a tractor show with more than 40 introductions. It certainly wasn't an auto show of the same magnitude. It wasn't even open to the public.

You knew it wouldn't be long before the Kardashian Klan expanded their product line into the toy world. Kim, Kourtney and Khloe Kardashian will be made into Barbie dolls for Mattel with a limited-edition doll is set to hit the market this year.

Banks led Wall Street to gains on Thursday even as Europe struggled again, a sign investors are betting a relatively strong U.S. economy will help U.S. stocks outperform other markets.

The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday that Kodak may be preparing to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

Investigators are looking into whether or not the White House gave too much information to Hollywood director Katheryn Bigelow and her team working on a movie about the Osama bin Laden raid.

The U.S. Department of Defense and CIA are investigating claims that the Obama administration gave Oscar Award winning filmmaker Kathryn Bigelow more than a peek at classified information about the killing of Osama bin Laden.

As Wall Street anxiously awaits the Labor Department's monthly employment report due on Friday, a decent bet has emerged. Odds are, the government will say it underestimated recent job gains.

Beyonce has reportedly flown home to Houston to give birth to her baby on Friday, a caller who works at the hospital where the star will allegedly be giving birth told a local radio station.

On Dec. 27, 2011, 15-year-old Staten Islander Amanda Cummings walked in front of a bus on Hylan Blvd, ending her young life. Police say it was deliberate, as they found a suicide note her in pocket. Six days later, she succumbed to her injuries. What can be done to make sure this does not happen again?

Donald Trump has announced the official line-up for the 5th season of Celebrity Apprentice, his biggest cast yet. If you're a reality-TV junkie, a lot of the contestants are familiar faces. But for a lot of people, skimming down the large list has them asking who? Here's the run-down of who's taking on the Trump challenge and why they're famous.

I can't stop looking at it!! declared the pop princess.

Pregnant Baby Boy singer Beyonce is due to give birth to a baby boy of her own. At least that is what a New York psychic believes. His name will reportedly start with a J, as a tribute to her husband Jay-Z.

The former CEO of Japan's Olympus Corp is dropping his bid to retake control of the troubled company because of lack of support from Japanese institutional investors, according to a Wall Street Journal report.

The former CEO of Japan's Olympus Corp is dropping his bid to retake control of the troubled company because of lack of support from Japanese institutional investors, according to a Wall Street Journal report.

Funny man Jonah Hill, who by the looks of it has dropped at least half of his body weight over the past two years, is dating Dustin Hoffman's daughter, Ali.