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Front-runner Newt Gingrich came under sharp attack from rival Republican presidential candidates Thursday night at the last debate before Iowa launches the 2012 election season.

An improvement in the U.S. employment picture last week and a rise in regional factory activity suggested an emerging divide between resiliency in the U.S. economy and faltering growth in Europe and Asia.

Starting Friday Dec. 16, 42 select theaters in North America and 10 select theaters in Canada will be dishing out the Dark Knight Rises IMAX prologue before screenings of Mission Impossible - Ghost Protocol. Find your nearest city and go see it!

The unemployment extension for 2012 has not yet passed in Congress and time is running out.

A surveillance video of a police officer in Allentown, Philadelphia, tasering a teenager has been released.

Rick Santorum, the former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania who has been hanging out with Jon Huntsman at the bottom of the Republican pack, said in Waterloo, Iowa, on Tuesday that the United States was not so gradually beginning to resemble fascist Italy.

Newt Gingrich has risen like the proverbial phoenix from the ashes to become a front-runner for the 2012 Republican Party nomination for president. But is he too old to serve in the most demanding, elected office in the world?

Morgan Stanley has returned $700 million to investors after its main real estate fund performed weaker than expected, reported the Wall Street Journal.

U.S. solar installations soared nearly 40 percent in the third quarter and are likely to be even higher in the current period, though 2011 overall will lag expectations slightly due to a decline in state incentives.

Matisyahu, the renowned Hasidic Jewish reggae star, altered his religious image on Tuesday after he posted photos of himself on Twitter with a shaved beard.

The recommended national ban wouldn't apply to hands-free devices or to passengers of vehicles. In the past, the NTSB has recommended bans for cell phones and messaging devices for novice drivers, school bus drivers and commercial truck drivers, but this is far more reaching -- potentially impacting every driver on the road.

Missouri has a law that bans those under the age of 21 from texting and driving. But one 19-year-old driver in Missouri apparently didn't get the notice. He sent and received a total of 11 text messages in a deadly highway crash last year in the 11 minutes before the crash, according to federal investigators.

Facebook launched a suicide prevention program with the Lifeline Tuesday, which will give troubled users an ability to chat with crisis experts 24 hours a day.

Google celebrated what would have been the 84th birthday of the late Robert Noyce, co-inventor of the integrated circuit, with electronics-themed Google Doodle on Monday, Dec. 12.

A new study of leukemia drug Mylotarg, pulled from the U.S. market last year due to safety concerns, found it to be effective when used at low doses in older adults but questions about toxicity remain.

A single treatment with gene therapy, an experimental technique for fixing faulty genes, has been shown to boost output of a vital blood clotting factor, possibly offering a long-term solution for people with hemophilia B.

The Google Doodle honors Robert Noyce who would have celebrated his 84th birthday Monday. During his lifetime, Noyce was nicknamed the Mayor of Silicon Valley, having co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957 and Intel in 1968. He also co-created the microchip with Jack Kilby in the late 1950s.

About 7 million Americans get jobless benefits under seven different state and federal programs. Around one-quarter of them will fall off the rolls in January unless the U.S. Congress renews an extended-benefits program that expires at the end of the year.

Scientists have for the first time created blood platelet cells by reprogramming stem cells derived from adult cells, offering the potential for a renewable supply of the fragile blood component.

The budding rivalry between currently surging Newt Gingrich and former front-runner Mitt Romney will take center stage on Saturday in the first of two Republican presidential debates in Iowa over the next five days.

Antidepressants have made some sufferers of depression feel even more depressed, a fresh look at past studies has found.