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Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, the American soldier accused of killing 16 Afghan villagers in cold blood, will face charges within a week.

The Wisconsin congressman's fiscal 2013 spending plan reflects Republicans' insistence that automatically triggered defense cuts could be offset without raising additional tax revenue.

The market clearly liked the news – Apple shares jumped 2.65 percent on Monday to close above $600 per share for the first time.

Americans travelling to the Olympics could be exposed to measles and should be vaccinated before they go, the CDC warned.

Despite the many conflicting reports about Jason Russell's naked breakdown in the middle of a busy San Diego intersection, the Kony 2012 director was not arrested last Thursday. Instead, he was placed on a 5150 psychiatric hold. Invisible Children CEO Ben Keesey recorded a video message in response to Russell's breakdown, saying that the 33-year-old director felt intense pressure.

Senior Facebook executives met Monday with analysts and bankers, but CEO Mark Zuckerberg didn't attend. The company's chief financial officer told attendees that Zuckerberg prefers to focus on developing Facebook's social-networking service.

According to a new report by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), a serious safety violation has occurred at the Second Avenue subway. Construction at the Second Avenue subway has over three times the permitted amount of toxic dust levels. Testing done Nov. 9 at East 69th and Second Avenue found the high levels of silica, hazardous dust particles that are a result of the drilling construction. The latest information was released last week by Assemblyman Micah Kellner...

Facebook will pay a fee of just 1.1 percent to underwriters of its initial public offering, a source with knowledge of the company's plans said on Monday.

The European financial crisis has seemingly abated after Greece scored an orderly default on €100 billion ($132 billion) worth of its debt and the European Central Bank (ECB) injected banks with €530 billion in three-year loans.

Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) closed above $600 a share for the first time after announcing a $10 billion share buyback with plans for a $2.65 share dividend later this year.

Apple (AAPL) shares soared on Monday, breaching the 600 mark a few times before finally settling on 601, after the Cupertino, Calif.-based tech company decided to share some of its $100 billion in cash with its investors. Apple announced it would reward shareholders by launching a quarterly dividend and a stock buyback program that will pay out about $45 billion over three years, set to go into effect later this year.

Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) downloaded $45 billion, to borrow a phrase from the Financial Times, to its shareholders Monday, lifting both its own stock and the already buoyant broader market.

Electroshock is one of the most effective - and controversial - treatments for depression, but until recently, scientists have been at a loss to explain just how it works. A new study suggests that ECT may reduce depression symptoms by putting a lid on overactive communications between areas in the brain involved in thinking and areas associated with mood control.

Apple (AAPL) is feeling generous. After a record-breaking quarter announced in January and a record-breaking launch weekend for the new iPad, Tim Cook decided to share some of Apple's $100 billion in cash on Monday to fulfill a deep-seated desire of investors, announcing a quarterly dividend and a three-year shares buyback program to go in effect later this year.

When the late Steve Jobs had a will, he often got his way. That's why Apple hasn't paid a dividend since 2005.

Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.) will chair a Congressional hearing next month to examine the effect closing of several refineries serving the East Coast has on gas prices.

Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL), the No. 3 software developer and No. 1 in databases, is scheduled to report third-quarter results Tuesday. Last quarter, it missed estimates and the shares plunged 15 percent, shaving as much as $5.3 billion from the net worth of CEO Larry Ellison.

Things seem to be going well for the couple.

Do you enjoy horror movies? So do I.

Gone will be the days when the mainstream tablet market would be just confined to Android and iOS credibility or on the less thriving RIM's Playbooks.

Collapsing natural gas prices have yielded an unexpected boon for North Dakota's shale oil bonanza, easing a shortage of fracking crews that had tempered the biggest U.S. oil boom in a generation.