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Highlights from an extensive report on tablet computer owners.

Kirsten Dunst and Orlando Bloom will co-star in Roger Donaldson's Cities.

A rare October snowstorm blanketed East Coast with heavy record snowfall and rain Saturday that knocked down trees and power lines just before the Halloween.

It’s conventional wisdom that because the 2012 Republican nomination race is relatively close, it’s likely to stay a dogfight until the last primary has been held in June. Don’t believe it: Political-science research says the one who wins the New Hampshire primary in January and Super Tuesday on March 6 will be the nominee.

A rare October snowstorm blanketed much of the U.S. Northeast on Saturday, as a deadly nor'easter rolled into the region just in time for Halloween.

Members of MF Global Holdings Ltd.'s board of directors met Saturday to discuss options for the sale of the brokerage, Bloomberg News reported.

U.S. and European shares took a breather on Friday after a strong rally on a long-awaited euro zone rescue deal, but a weak sale of Italian bonds showed investor confidence in the agreement was shaky.

Oil prices retreated on Friday in light volume trading as uncertainties about Europe's plan to tackle its debt problems prompted some profit taking after the previous session's rally.

Michael Moore shows support at Occupy Oakland.

Snow is falling Saturday in the Northeast, and the rare October Snowstorm of 2011 is expected to smash records from New York to areas inland of the Interstate 95 corridor before it ends early Sunday.

I am the only woman in the establishment and yet I barely notice, so at home do I feel. I've just perched myself in one of the lounge's lion-armed chairs, newspaper in hand, when, from across the room, a man bellows, Rocky Patel; toro; 1992; a Nicaraguan blend. I used to like those. Good smoke.

'Google Offers' partners with 14 other daily deal Web sites and picks up service in four new cities as it battles with Groupon.

Diversified financial services firm Wells Fargo & Co. (NYSE:WFC) said it is cancelling its planned five-state pilot of a monthly $3 fee for users of its debit cards as a response to customer feedback the bank has received.

Oakland, Calif., Mayor Jean Quan has apologized for a clash between police and protesters during a march against economic inequality that left a former U.S. Marine seriously wounded, and said she would meet with demonstrators.

A major early-season snowstorm is expected Saturday as an area of low pressure tracks up the U.S. East Coast, bringing with it the possibility of significant snowfall in a broad band.

The Bank of America Corp., after receiving heavy public criticism for a planned $5-per-month debit-card fee, is likely to give customers more ways to avoid the fee, a person familiar with the bank's plans said Friday.

The National Basketball (NBA) canceled another two weeks of the season on Friday and conceded it was now too late to save the entire 82-game season even if owners and players reached an agreement to end to their bitter labor dispute.

Veteran actor Michael Douglas said in a recent interview with Alec Baldwin that he will never forget when he was first told he had late-stage throat cancer in 2010.

U.S. stocks closed out a fourth week of gains in quiet fashion on Friday, edging higher as the market took a breather after rallying 3 percent on Europe's deal to stem its debt crisis.

Material Girl, the clothing line jointly run by American pop icon Madonna and her daughter, Lourdes Leon, has announced a new initiative - a major model hunt in association with Macy's.

The distressing case of Jamey Rodemeyer--the 14-year-old N.Y. boy, who committed suicide last month, after living a life of struggle fighting off peers who harassed him for being homosexual--has directed national attention to the rampant school bullying.