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IBTimes spoke with Heather Gautney, a sociology professor at Fordham University, about the significance of the Occupy Wall Street protests and how they might unfold in the coming weeks.

ESPN pulled Hank Williams Jr.'s theme song from its Monday Night Football broadcast in a rebuke to the country music star for comments earlier in the day comparing President Barack Obama to Adolf Hitler.

One post read: If she can't even protect her own Twitter account, how can she protect the country? Think about it my brothers and sisters.”

President Barack Obama's chances of winning a second term are bleak, with only 37 percent of the voters believing that he will scrape through in 2012, the latest ABC News/Washington Post survey has found.

U.S. President Barack Obama said on Monday it would be very difficult for al Qaeda to launch another major attack on the United States, as its leadership has been decimated.

AOL unveiled a slate of 15 web series on Monday boasting partnerships with the likes of Michael Eisner's Vuguru and Mark Burnett.

The country-music star and singer of the Monday Night Football theme song lashes out during an appearance on Fox and Friends.

Yahoo Inc struck a deal with ABC to use the media company's news on its website and to jointly produce journalism projects as well as sell Web advertising.

Starbucks Corp CEO Howard Schultz, decrying a lack of leadership in Washington, said his chain of coffee shops is helping to launch a nationwide fund designed to stimulate U.S. job creation.

When Bank of America announced last week that it would begin charging a $5 monthly fee to customers using their debit cards at retail locations, it understandably caused a fair amount of complaining from consumers, a fact that was noted across the board by various media sources Friday. But it also inspired a wave of anger against banks in general.

Hybrid cars aren't totally in right now, but with fuel-economy standards kicking in, there may be a wave by 2025.

Stock index futures pointed to a weaker open on Wall Street on Monday after steep declines in the previous session, with futures for the S&P 500, for the Dow Jones and for the Nasdaq 100 down 0.6-0.9 percent.

Stock index futures pointed to a weaker open on Wall Street on Monday after steep declines in the previous session, with futures for the S&P 500, for the Dow Jones and for the Nasdaq 100 down 0.6-0.9 percent.

After his first meeting ever with the Mother Monster herself last week, President Obama said Lady Gaga is intimidating during a speech at a LGBT advocacy gala.

Iran said on Saturday that Christian Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani was sentenced to death for rape, not for the crime of abandoning Islam.

China's official news agency derided on Sunday U.S. lawmakers' efforts to pressure Beijing over its currency policy as expedient and shallow, saying they were resorting to an old habit of deflecting blame on China.

China's official news agency derided on Sunday U.S. lawmakers' efforts to pressure Beijing over its currency policy as expedient and shallow, saying they were resorting to an old habit of deflecting blame on China.

Van Jones, who served as President Barack Obama's environmental adviser till Sept. 2009, has said that the progressives are going to launch an October offensive against the Tea Party.

Nouriel Dr. Doom Roubini, the NYU professor who four years ago accurately predicted the global financial crisis, says tough medicine is needed to end it: another round of massive fiscal stimulus or universal debt restructuring.

The Obama administration on Friday approved more than $4.7 billion in loan guarantees for major solar projects as the government closed out an incentive program embroiled in controversy over the bankruptcy of one of its biggest projects.

The U.S. Department of Justice is seeking to give control of Solyndra's estate to a bankruptcy trustee, citing the refusal by executives at the solar power company to answer questions about its operations.