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While Herman Cain's recent campaign ad featuring his cigarette-smoking chief of staff has become a viral sensation, the GOP presidential hopeful has made some equally bizarre advertisements in the past.

When Bernie and Ruth Madoff attempted suicide on Christmas Eve of 2008, they did so in the couple's penthouse duplex atop 133 East 64th Street. When Madoff went to jail, they had to forfeit their many homes, which each gained an aura of infamy. Some have done better than others in the luxury sales market.

Recap of the last two days of Occupy Wall Street demonstrations in New York and Oakland.

A Chicago man asked his girlfriend for her hand in marriage over the loudspeaker on a Delta Air Lines flight from New York to Chicago

The ink is barely dry on European leaders’ plan to resolve the Greek / Europe debt crisis, and attention has already turned to the U.S. Federal Reserve. Is there enough liquidity in the global financial system or will Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke need to deploy more monetary stimulus to grease the wheels of commerce?

The J. Crew president and creative director has been seeing a fellow fashion exec.

Cutting Medicaid by 5 percent would cost U.S. states $14 billion and trigger job losses in the tens of thousands by depressing spending by states, hospitals, nursing homes, drug companies and others, a study said on Wednesday.

Pundits who argued that GOP presidential nominee candidate Herman Cain was merely the Republican party's flavor of the month in the race to unseat Democratic incumbent Barack Obama may have been right.

Heidi Klum is Halloween's biggest fan. Each year, the supermodel throws an annual Halloween bash that is the party of the season.

Scott Olsen, a former U.S. Marine who completed two tours in Iraq, is in critical condition on Thursday, after being hit in the face by a police projectile during an Occupy Oakland protest Tuesday night. Will his injuries galvanize the Occupy movement?

Fears of a double-dip recession in the U.S. receded temporarily Thursday after Washington said consumers bought more appliances and businesses spent more on construction this past summer.

Stand-up comedian, Patrice O'Neal, suffered from a stroke last week after a long battle with diabetes, Jim Norton announced on Wednesday night.

Title insurer First American Financial Corp posted third-quarter profit that missed market estimates, hurt by higher claims and lower orders.

Doctors in Oakland, California, struggled on Wednesday to save the life of an Iraq war veteran who became a rallying cry for the Occupy Wall Street movement after he was badly wounded in clashes between protesters and police.

Louisville and West Virginia continue to sit in limbo on Thursday as the Big 12 weighs its options in choosing to offer one of the schools an invitation to join the conference.

Casey Anthony, the Florida mom acquitted in July of killing her child, has been voted the No. 2 creepiest celebrity, closely following shock rocker Marilyn Manson, according to a poll released on Thursday.

Millions across the U.S. were treated to a spectacular display Monday as the Aurora Borealis dipped south to the delight of spectators across 30 states. Stargazers as far south as Arizona, New Mexico, and Alabama caught the vivid red patterns of the northern lights, which arrived approximately eight hours ahead of schedule.

The New York Stock Exchange and NYSE Amex Cash Markets invoked Rule 48 on Thursday after European leaders agreed to boost the region's bailout fund and struck a deal with private banks and insurers to accept 50 percent losses on Greek bonds.

Exxon Mobil Corp's profit rose 41 percent in the third quarter, slightly ahead of Wall Street estimates, as gains in crude oil prices and higher refining margins boosted results.

Forecasters say New York, Philadelphia, Boston and others along the I-95 corridor could be in line for some wet snow flakes this weekend, even though temperatures will be above freezing.

The Occupy Oakland protests are part of the Occupy Wall Street movement that began in New York over a month ago.