J.J. McGrath

Cracking down on dietary supplements containing a substance popularly known as DMAA, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday issued warning letters to 10 distributors and manufacturers, citing the companies for marketing the products without submitting evidence of their safety to the agency.

Gold held near a two-week high on Monday on prospects of more safe-haven buying, with the U.S. dollar under pressure from weaker-than-expected economic data and speculation the Federal Reserve could ease policy further to boost growth.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner are not planning to postpone their visit to China next week because of the reported American protection of a Chinese civil-rights activist who recently escaped house arrest, a State Department official said Saturday.

Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng made his way to the U.S. embassy in Beijing from his home in Linyi village in Shandong province after his escape from house arrest on Sunday, fellow dissident Hu Jia told BBC News.

Corporate executives are hesitant to pull the trigger on new acquisitions despite indicating they believe the global economy is improving somewhat, according to a survey of more than 1,500 executives polled by Ernst & Young.

Notice of the termination of a natural-gas purchase agreement between companies in Israel (the buyers) and companies in Egypt (the sellers) was confirmed Sunday by those on both sides of the contentious issue.

Charles W. Chuck Colson, who served as a special counsel to U.S. President Richard Nixon from 1969 to 1973, died of complications related to a brain hemorrhage on Saturday at 3:12 p.m. EDT, according to one of the two evangelical Christian organizations he founded. He was 80.

The U.S.-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement will take effect next month, President Barack Obama announced Sunday during the two-day Summit of the Americas in Cartagena, Colombia.

Because of a multistate outbreak of Salmonella Bareilly infections, the Moon Marine USA Corp., aka MMI, of Cupertino, Calif., is voluntarily recalling 58,828 pounds of a frozen raw yellowfin tuna product labeled as Nakaochi Scrape AA or AAA, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has announced.

Discussions of Iran's nuclear program between the Islamic Republic on the one side and the so-called P-5 Plus 1 group -- Britain, China, France, Russia, and the U.S., plus Germany -- on the other side appear to have gone reasonably well in Istanbul on Saturday.

Ten of 23 Egyptian presidential candidates -- three of them considered front-runners -- were disqualified as participants in the coming election by the country's Supreme Presidential Election Commission on Saturday.

A tornado touched down close to the National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Okla., on Friday around 4 p.m. CDT -- the first in a series of twisters that the service's forecasters project will hit the central U.S. this weekend.

Braving hazardous weather conditions, 383 Pakistani military personnel and 69 civilians are working day and night on rescue efforts at the location where an avalanche on Saturday buried 124 soldiers and 11 civilians at an army battalion headquarters in the Himalayan region of Kashmir.

Two weeks ago, Bubba Watson had neither major golf championship titles nor children. Today, he has one of each. Watson's playoff victory over Louis Oosthuizen on Sunday was the 15th in Masters Tournament history -- and the ninth since the tourney adopted the sudden-death format in 1976.

Proceeds of initial public offerings listed in the United States were relatively light in the first quarter, but they are likely to get absolutely heavier in the second quarter -- especially should Facebook Inc. conduct its anticipated $5 billion IPO in May.

Phil Mickelson stormed the Masters Tournament leaderboard on Saturday to finish within a shot of surprise third-round leader Peter Hanson and restore some sense of normality to the first major golfing event of the year.

AT&T Inc. and the Communications Workers of America, or CWA, are cutting it close as they seek successors to four collective-bargaining agreements covering about 40,000 employees of the telecommunications company. The current contracts expire on Easter Sunday at 12:01 a.m.

The avalanche rolling over a Pakistani army battalion headquarters in the Himalayan region of Kashmir on Saturday buried 124 soldiers and 11 civilian employees of the military -- with no sign of survivors yet -- according to the country's Inter Services Public Relations, or ISPR.

The so-called Caylee's Law -- born after the death of Orlando 2-year-old Caylee Anthony in 2008 -- was signed by Florida Gov. Rick Scott on Friday, according to multiple media reports.

In combating the tobacco epidemic, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has released two separate draft guidance documents designed to help implement provisions of the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act.

Visa Inc. acknowledged a technical issue with the company's network kept people from using their credit and debit cards for about 45 minutes on Sunday.

DirecTV, the largest satellite-television provider in the United States, will cease carrying Tribune Broadcasting television stations in 19 markets -- and WGN America nationwide -- beginning Saturday at midnight, should the contract between the two companies expire then.

The daily-deal site operator said its downward revisions were due to its having to set aside more money for refunds to merchants than it had initially expected.

In the wake of the uncommon cancellation of the initial public offering by Bats Global Markets Inc. on Friday, the company's chairman, CEO, and president apologized to customers and members of the trading community in a letter posted on its website on Sunday.

A magnitude-7.1 earthquake struck Chile on Sunday at 7:37 p.m. local time (6:37 p.m. EDT), according to the U.S. Geological Survey. At a depth of 21.6 miles (34.8 kilometers), the quake's epicenter was 136 miles (219 kilometers) south-southwest of the capital city of Santiago, the USGS reported.

Royal Dutch Shell PLC has a whole lot of money on its balance sheet, but European Union and U.S. financial sanctions are making it difficult for the major integrated oil-and-gas company to pay an estimated $1 billion it owes the National Iranian Oil Co. for crude purchases, according to Reuters.

Former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney was recovering on Saturday after undergoing heart-transplant surgery, a once-risky procedure whose survival rates have improved over the years.

In conducting an investigation of possible fraud in relation to Wells Fargo & Co.'s sale of almost $60 billion in residential mortgage-backed securities, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday requested that a federal court order the country's largest mortgage lender to comply with its subpoenas.

Greg Smith -- the former executive at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. who put a new spin on the old letter of resignation with his "Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs" op-ed article in the New York Times on March 14 -- apparently would like to amplify on his remarks in book form, according to the newspaper.