David Magee

The FBI has released three passengers who were the focus of a security scare on a Frontier Airlines flight on Sunday, the day America paused in memorial of the nearly 3,000 who died in terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.

On the day President Barack Obama sent his $447 billion jobs bill to Congress in a bid to solve America's unemployment problem, the Bank of America delivered an economic blow -- announcing plans to slash as many as 30,000 jobs.

Amazon is about to launch a consumer tech battle with its highly-anticipated new tablet, expected to be launched in October, and the company is likely to try to win customers for its new product through a low product price-point and an annual content subscription model that will let readers have free access to older books and streaming movies and TV shows.

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal is giving his coveted presidential race endorsement to Rick Perry, the Texas Governor who is a front-runner in the race for the Republican party's presidential nomination, according to a report.

Finally, U.S. President Barack Obama is wearing his job, acting and talking with a plan and swagger becoming of his office. After unveiling a massive jobs plan to get America out of its nine percent unemployment and flat growth doldrums late last week, Obama is pushing Congress to get it done or get out of the way so America can get moving again.

Bank of America tried to grow at the peak of the U.S. financial disaster several years ago, acquiring Countrywide Mortgage and Merrill Lynch, the investment bank, but now the Charlotte, N.C.-based company is destined to shrink. The company disclosed plans on Monday to cut 30,000 jobs, as the nation's largest bank tries to cut costs as the U.S. economy continues in a slow-growth, high unemployment mode.

(Reuters) - McGraw-Hill Cos Inc. plans to split into two public companies, with one holding its Standard & Poor's ratings and index businesses and the other holding its textbook publishing units.

The severe drought which has plagued Texas, and other areas of the parched Southern Plains including southern Kansas and Oklahoma may finally benefit from a developing midweek storm system likely to bring much-needed rains.

A day after white, commemorative ribbons drifted in a cool, late summer breeze amid words and memories honoring those killed on 9/11, the memorial plaza opened on Monday to the the public in New York.

Amazon showed the world after the dot com bubble that an Internet retailer could be huge, profitable and powerful. Then, the company effectively created the booming ebook industry. Now, Amazon is trying to change to change our world again, talking with traditional book publishers about creating an ebook rental service.

Amid a heightened state of security in New York and Washington during 9/11 memorial events shaded by a new credible terror threat, threatening messages have been posted on the White House Facebook page.

Is Osama bin Laden really dead? That's what the young lady asked me.She knew I am a journalist, not quick to buy suspicious facts peddled as such, but not quick to buy into conspiracy theories, either -- like the one that Osama bin Laden's death at the hands of U.S. military was faked.

As bagpipes played Sunday morning in New York and names were being read of those who perished in the deadly 9/11 attacks which occurred exactly one decade ago today, America was reminded from a deadly truck bombing outside a U.S. military base in Afghanistan that the nation remains at war.

A large Taliban truck bomb detonated outside an American military based in Afghanistan has left at least two Afghan civilians dead and leaving as many as 77 NATO personnel injured, officials said Sunday. The injured NATO troops were mostly Americans, a U.S. defense official said of the bombing, for which the Taliban has claimed responsibility. NATO's International Security Assistance Force has also confirmed the attack was carried out by a Taliban suicide bomber.

Netflix subscribers or hopefuls who want to watch movies and shows on certain smartphones are now in luck -- considering the streaming video service has updated its app to work on smartphones that run the Froyo and Gingerbread versions of the Android operating system.

The North Pole's ice skull cap shrank to an historic low this week. Shrinking to its lowest point since satellite observations began in 1972, the area covered by the Arctic sea ice shrank to 4.24 million square kilometers (1.637 square miles) on Sept. 8, according to the University of Bremen's Institute of Environmental Physics.

On Friday and Saturday, Back to the Future and Marty McFly, the movie's lead character who wore the shoes years ago, were trending on Twitter thanks to Nike, which is making the sneakers a reality. Marty McFly's self-lacing Nike trainers from the film Back to the Future II have been made available for sale by the shoe and apparel company.

NASA is on its way back to the moon, embarking upon a new study that could help launch future manned missions one day.NASA's Grail mission launched this morning, as the Delta II rocket carrying the Gravity and Recovery and Interior Laboratory lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Fla. Saturday at 6:08 a.m. EDT amid clear skies. It is the 110th mission to the moon in history, with previous missions launched by the United States, Soviet Union, Japan, China and India.

Apple's iPhone is the global smartphone leader and the company can still boast that its product users are also among the most satisfied. Since launching the iPhone in 2007 and as the company's highly-anticipated launch of the next version, the iPhone 5, nears, Apple has sold more than 110 million iPhones.

The worthy tech battle, also known as Amazon vs. iPad, is about to begin. Some industry observers will try to argue that Amazon's forthcoming new Kindle tablet will not be a direct, legitimate threat to Apple's industry-leading iPad because the company's first unit will be a 7-inch touchscreen instead of a 10-inch touchscreen.But even industry observers can be wrong, and such is the case with Amazon's new tablet, which will be a direct competitor to Apple's iPad regardless of ...

The U.K. and parts of Northwest Europe will the impact Hurricane Katia 2011 by the beginning of next week, forecasters say. But the storm will no longer be a hurricane. Yet, Katia's path will move across the North Atlantic Ocean on Saturday, before impacting Britain as a strong low pressure system beginning Sunday night, sweeping severe gales across parts of the UK.

Back to the Future and Marty McFly are trending on Twitter Friday thanks to Nike, which is making the sneakers a reality. Marty McFly's self-lacing Nike trainers from the film Back to the Future II have been made available for sale by the shoe and apparel company.

Vice President Joe Biden said Friday the first active plot timed to coincide with the commemoration of the 10th anniversary of al-Qaida's deadly attack is a real threat.

Amid a credible terrorist attack threat against New York and Washington around the upcoming 10th anniversary of al-Qaida's deadly attack on the U.S., New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg rode the subway Friday morning in the effort to assure the city's 8.8 million residents that preparations are in place.

The remnants of Hurricane Katia will impact Britain as a strong low pressure system on Sunday night, sweeping severe gales across parts of the UK, forecasters say.

President Barack Obama made a savvy play with his jobs speech proposal, if one considers his personal political hide. America's unemployment problem has gone on too long, and the nation is looking to Washington, and the president, to do something about it. So he drew up a economic plan that has a big price tag -- $447 billion -- urging Republicans and Congress to act immediately on it.

Hurricane Katia will impact northwest Europe as a extratropical storm Sunday to Tuesday, forecasters say, with gales and heavy rain spreding from Ireland and Scotland starting late Sunday through Tuesday.

Republican Senator David Vitter and other conservatives planning to boycott President Barack Obama's major jobs speech before Congress Thursday night are out of line.

Ralph Nader is a five-time candidate for President of the United States, with a particular concern for consumer protection, eviromentalism and democratic goverment. Some claim the lecturer and attorney has been merely a political disrupter over the years, acting as a third-party spoiler for instance in the 2000 U.S. presidential election.