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Lawyers for jailed swindler Bernard Madoff argued for his release pending sentencing and a list of assets put he and his wife's net worth between $823 million and $826 million, according to court papers filed on Friday.

U.S. municipalities, strapped for cash as the recession decimates revenues, are stepping up sales of everything from old police cars, helicopters and bicycles to confiscated jewelry and slot machines in an effort to reduce swollen deficits.

NASA said there is a high probability of sending its shuttle Discovery to the international space station on Sunday after delaying it for over a month while they fixed a fuel leak.

Nasa's Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-119) will blast off today from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 9:20 p.m. PST on a 14-day mission to complete International Space Station.

While accused hedge fund swindler Arthur Nadel sits in a Manhattan jail, Burton Wiand is busy seizing control of his assets -- a 453-acre mountainside tract of land in North Carolina, several airplane hangars and a jumble of bank accounts.

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NASA on Friday prepared to launch a telescope that will search the corner of our Milky Way galaxy for Earth-like planet, making it NASA's first ever mission of its kind.

About one in eight U.S. homeowners with mortgages, a record share, ended 2008 behind on their loan payments or in the foreclosure process as job losses intensified a housing crisis spawned by lax lending practices, the Mortgage Bankers Association said on Thursday.

U.S. business productivity fell in the fourth quarter as output plunged at its fastest pace since 1982, while one in eight U.S. households ended 2008 behind on its mortgage or in foreclosure, according to data on Thursday that underscored the economy's weakness.

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK - The Obama administration on Wednesday launched a $75 billion foreclosure relief plan, as new data showed one in five U.S. homeowners with mortgages owe more than their house is worth.

One in five U.S. homeowners with mortgages owe more to their lenders than their homes are worth, and the rate will increase as housing prices drop in states that have so far avoided the worst of the crisis, a new study shows.

The face of Winston cigarette ads for two decades, Alan Landers, died at 68 after battling throat cancer.

U.S. consumer spending rebounded in January, snapping six months of declines, and incomes rose unexpectedly, boosted by salary increases for government employees, a government report showed on Monday.

Yahoo introduced several tools on Tuesday that it says will help marketers target their ads more efficiently at a time when many of them are cutting advertising spending drastically. One of the new products lets marketers target people with tailored display ads based on the terms they used in Yahoo's search engine. Another tool customizes display ads based on the websites people have visited an...

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Sunday won a referendum eliminating term limits opening a way for him run again as president in 2012 and possibly for many years to come.

Procter & Gamble Co said on Thursday it will continue to sell products at a wide variety of price points to keep consumers interested in its brands during the recession. We are focused on how consumers define value, regardless of the economic situation they're in, Chairman and Chief Executive A.G. Lafley said at the Consumer Analyst Group of New York conference in Boca Raton...

The electric power industry and manufacturers say $4.5 billion in the $787-billion U.S. economic stimulus package will give a crucial boost to smart grids that will help the nation save money and electricity.

Texas billionaire Allen Stanford and three of his companies were charged with massive fraud on Tuesday as federal agents swooped on his U.S. headquarters.

from Antigua to St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands to Miami.

President Barack Obama is taking trips to two cities in Indiana and Florida hurting under the economic crisis to make his case for the large economic stimulus package that is facing opposition in Congress.

New Tennessee coach Monte Kiffin has been reprimanded by the SEC commissioner for calling Florida coach, Urban Meyer, a cheater on Thursday.