The Commerce Department said on Wednesday it would investigate whether Chinese companies sell solar panels in the United States at unfair discounts and receive illegal government subsidies.
San Francisco voters backed interim Mayor Ed Lee's plan for tackling the city's rising pension expenses for its public employees over a competing plan on Tuesday's ballot, according to unofficial results on Wednesday.
Gasoline and diesel prices fell in the Portland, Oregon, market as two refineries finished seasonal overhauls, traders said.
Is the recent rate of earthquakes in Turkey, and the rest of the world, anything to be worried about?
Four masked thieves tried to rob a San Diego area casino on Wednesday by pulling a display case full of money from the lobby with their sport utility vehicle, police said.
Teen sensation Justin Bieber received a sweet kiss from fans on Wednesday when his album Under the Mistletoe debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, edging out new entries from rapper Wale and country singer Miranda Lambert.
E-mails made public by the U.S. House of Representatives appear to show a major donor to President Barack Obama's 2008 campaign and investor in Solyndra discussed federal loans to the solar company with officials, despite White House assertions to the contrary.
The fight over the AT&T/T-Mobile merger is heating up, and the argument is focused on jobs.
Cisco Systems, the world’s biggest supplier of Internet equipment, reported first-quarter results that slightly beat expectations because of new sales to telecommunications carriers.
Professional surfer Garrett McNamara has broken the record for Largest Wave Surfed after successfully riding an enormous 90 foot wave.
Now that Groupon has finally gone public, raising $700 million through its Nov. 4 IPO, how about some others in the pipeline as well as the king of them all, Facebook?
The National Meat Association says a California law mandating humane treatment and euthanization of animals is preempted by a federal meat inspection law.
PriceSmart Inc. announced in its fourth-quarter earnings report Wednesday that its profit fell from the same period last year, as higher revenues were not enough to outweigh higher costs of business.
The holiday album is Bieber's third number one album in Billboard 200 history.
California law enforcement officials told TMZ that rapper Heavy D weighed 344 pounds at the time of his unexpected passing. TMZ reported that an associated of Heavy D's said the rapper had pneumonia as well.
The conflict between California's legalization of marijuana and a federal crackdown intensified this week, as lawyers acting on behalf of dispensaries and medical marijuana patients sought to halt government enforcement they said was unconstitutional.
NASA officials filmed a former doomsday asteroid in what is one of shortest movies of all time: just six frames long.
Lionsgate Entertainment narrowed its fiscal second quarter net loss year-over-year to $24.6 million as gains from its sale of Maple Pictures and EPIX earnings helped offset underperformance in films.
Occupy Denver has elected a three-year-old dog named Shelby as its official leader.
Shares of Cisco Systems shares fell 2.6 percent in early Wednesday trading to $17.84 as nervous investors await the first-quarter earnings announcement scheduled after the close.
Fifty-eight percent of Mississippi voters rejected the so-called Personhood Amendment on Tuesday.
Barclays Capital believes that iCloud could be Apple Inc.'s (NASDAQ: AAPL) most important new service since the launch of iTunes in 2003.