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Gold prices hovered in a $35 range Friday, virtually spending the day unchanged, as investors fleeing sinking U.S. and European stocks divided their options between the greenback and the yellow metal.

Radiohead will be playing a surprise, live show in Lower Manhattan to support the Occupy Wall Street protests at 4 p.m. Friday afternoon, Occupy Wall Street reported on its Web site.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo may be considering different ways to revamp the state's Medicaid system after a panel on Thursday proposed a possible change allowing coverage of sexual reassignment surgery for transgendered residents under the health care insurance program.

The actor's latest film is about cancer and relationships.

Help could be on the way for the protestors, as New York City labor unions and community groups have thrown their support behind Occupy Wall Street and pledged to join in a massive rally on Wednesday, Oct. 5.

Republican New Jersey governor Chris Christie will reportedly announce his candidacy for the Presidency on Monday,

Two separate mood studies conducted by researchers at Cornell, Harvard, and Northeastern University reveal people are happiest in the early morning and late at night, during the weekends, and on the west coast.

The pair arrived at the New York show together, according to onlookers.

Their goal was this: 'Move in' and Occupy Wall Street for a little bit, flood lower Manhattan with peaceful protestors and fill it with bedding and kitchens and demonstration signs. Their motive was to show that 'We the 99% are fed up with the greed and corruption of the 1%.

Stocks opened lower on Friday, putting equities on track for their fifth straight monthly decline as China's manufacturing shrank and kept fears of a global economic slowdown in the forefront.

This morning, the death of terror boss Anwar al-Awlaki was reported by Yemen officials.

Francona has managed the Red Sox for eight seasons.

The Los Angeles Kings have reached a verbal agreement on a multi-year contract with restricted free agent defenseman Drew Doughty.

There are no props, no music and no elaborate costumes -- and if these performers have their way, no applause either.

Since her role as a brooding teen-ager on the critically acclaimed 1990s TV drama, My So-Called Life, actress Claire Danes has played everything from Shakespeare's Juliet to autistic animal scientist Temple Grandin.

China isn't the only country eyeing a Heavenly Palace. Several developing nations are also creating space agencies and building rockets in hopes that one day they, too, may have citizens in space.

Disney is bring Newsies, the popular movie and recently adapted Paper Mill Playhouse stage musical, to Broadway this spring.

Gold rose more than 1 percent on Friday but was on track for its biggest quarterly gain this year as concerns that the euro zone debt crisis was far from resolved weighed on stock markets and the euro, lifting interest in bullion as an alternative.

Apple's iPhone cases are beginning to show up again as its release date draws near and this time it is allegedly listed in AT&T's inventory system, according to leaked photos sent to the media.

Sylvia Robinson, best known to be the mastermind behind the Sugarhill Gang’s “Rapper’s Delight,” the first hip-hop single to become a commercial hit, died Thursday at age 75.

Stock index futures pointed to a weaker open for equities on Wall Street on Friday, with futures for the S&P 500, Dow Jones and Nasdaq 100 down 0.6 to 0.8 percent.