Joseph Lazzaro

In a riveting end to a murder trial that had gripped much of the nation, Casey Anthony, the 25-year-old Orlando, Fla., mom, was found not guilty Tuesday of murdering her 2-year-old daughter Caylee Anthony. However, Casey was found guilty of four counts of providing false information to law enforcement officials, and could still face years in prison.

Casey Anthony, the 25-year-old Orlando Mom, was found not guilty Tuesday of murdering her 2-year-old daughter Caylee. The seven-woman, five-man jury took about one day to reach a verdict in the case.

Up ahead, the Federal Aviation Administration is expected deploy NextGen, it's new, GPS-based but expensive air traffic control system that, long-term, promises to save time, energy, and money and improve the flying experience for all stakeholders -- from pilots to travelers.

The only Democratic U.S. president re-elected since FDR's New Deal, and the last one to register a budget surplus in the past 30 years, has no-holds-barred advice for President Barack Obama regarding the debt talks: 'Don't blink.'

Jury deliberations in the Casey Anthony murder trial will resume Tuesday, after the jury failed to reach a verdict in Monday's half-session. The trial has attracted considerable national and even global attention, in part due to the alleged motive in the case: prosecutors argue that Casey killed her daughter Caylee Anthony because the child interfered with her care-free, partying lifestyle.

Globalization, basically free markets and the transfer of jobs to lower-cost production centers, has many benefits. But is the new economic era exacting a cost on the U.S. economy in the form of a longer-than-normal period of high initial jobless claims?

The nation's highest-ranking fiscal official Friday reaffirmed the Aug. 2 deadline for raising the U.S. debt ceiling -- urging Congress to act soon to avoid the catastrophic economic and market consequences of a default crisis by raising the statutory debt limit in timely manner.

Only the state's rebuttal and closing arguments remain in the Casey Anthony murder trial -- a case that's had more than its share of doubt-raising data points. Prosecutors have presented ample evidence that Casey Anthony lied repeatedly, and that she is a habitual partier, but whether they have proved beyond a reasonable doubt that she murdered her daughter Caylee remains an open question

It's likely to be a bitter-sweet Fourth of July holiday weekend, gas price-wise, for U.S. motorists. Gas prices have edged lower recently, but are still up substantially from a year ago, in early July 2010.

The alleged mistress of Casey Anthony's father, George Anthony, Thursday testified that George told her Caylee Anthony's death was an accident that snowballed out of control.

George Anthony, Casey Anthony's father, Wednesday broke down in tears on the stand, denied the defense team's claim that he had sexually abused Casey, and also said Casey was the last person to see Caylee Anthony, Casey's daughter, alive.

President Barack Obama, in his Wednesday news conference, did not mince words regarding Congressional Republicans' position on the debt ceiling.

Time was, you could 'bank on' certain trends in the United States: ample career positions for new college graduates, rising incomes, and rising home prices. Times have changed, and regarding the latter, today's unforgiving U.S. housing sector makes due diligence all-the-more important for prospective home buyers.

If your adjusted gross income is under $250,000, you may get a reprieve, if the Obama administration's latest deficit reduction proposal becomes law after debt ceiling talks have concluded. The administration is now said-to-be seeking to increase taxes on a narrow slice of the mega-rich, such as owners of private jets.

A jury Monday found former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich guilty on 17 of 20 counts, including crimes for wire wire fraud, attempted extortion, bribery, extortion conspiracy, and bribery conspiracy.

The Casey Anthony trial resumed Monday, after Judge Belvin Perry announced that three, court-ordered psychologists determined Anthony to be mentally competent to remain on trial.

The Los Angeles Dodgers filed for bankruptcy protection Monday - a move they say they need to undertake to access much-needed cash from a proposed media rights deal that Major League Baseball rejected.

Two years ago, if you postulated that U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minnesota, could become the first woman president of the United States in 2012, more than a few onlookers would have dismissed your observation as farfetched. However, an election cycle and a sluggish economy later, down-home-folks Bachmann has risen to top-tier status in the GOP’s 2012 nomination race.

Casey Anthony's defense team Friday submitted photos showing 2-year-old Caylee Anthony climbing, with adult assistance, into the family's swimming pool. However, Caylee's grandmother, Cindy Anthony, later testified that Caylee could climb into the pool by herself.

In the measure, 70 Democrats joined 225 Republicans to resoundingly defeated the bill. The GOP contends President Barack Obama has violated the War Powers Act by deploying forces for the Libyan campaign; Democrats contend the GOP is playing politics with national security.

Las Vegas is not only place to roll the dice for really high stakes. Washington, D.C. is another, and the GOP has done exactly that in its deficit reduction talks walkout. It's a bold move, but fraught with risk: it could reshape the U.S.'s social welfare state, or trigger a market-rocking U.S. Government default on its bonds.

A year ago, it seemed implausible, perhaps absurd, to think the U.S.'s two, major parties, the Democratic Party and the Republican Party, would disagree so much that the United States would be at risk of defaulting on its bonds, due to a failure to raise the debt ceiling before the U.S. Government runs out of money in August. Now, incredibly, it appears a U.S. default is possible.

It's been said that Congress doesn't react unless American voters compel it to do so. Well, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is imploring Congress to 'get ahead of the curve,' on the budget deficit / debt ceiling issue, as the consequences of not acting could be enormous: it would leave the U.S. vulnerable to rising interest rates, if the Greece debt situation triggers another financial contagion.

Fugitive South Boston gangster James 'Whitey' Bulger, wanted in connection with 19 murders, and a person on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List, was captured by federal law enforcement officials at a home in Southern California, ending a 16-year manhunt.

The head of the world's most powerful central bank essentially stuck to the bank's latest U.S. economic forecast in his news conference with reporters Wednesday: the U.S. economy slowed in Q2, but growth is likely to pick-up in the second half of 2011.

How big could the national debt get? Well, to paraphrase a line popularized by actor William Shatner, if Congressional lawmakers can not agree on a deficit reduction package, it’s going to get ‘really big’ -- grow to a total larger than the U.S. economy.

Defense attorneys and prosecutors continued to battle over forensic evidence in Casey Anthony's murder trial, in which the Florida resident has been accused of killing her daughter, Caylee Anthony, age 2. If convicted, Casey Anthony faces a possible death sentence.