The world's biggest hedge fund Bridgewater Associates posted returns of 23 percent in 2011, in a year when most of its peers underperformed the major stock market indexes, the New York Times reported, citing people familiar with the firm's investment strategy.
Joshua Komisarjevsky, the second individual involved in the deadly Cheshire home invasion, was officially sentenced to death on Friday.
Yale quarterback Patrick Witt made worldwide headlines when he withdrew his Rhodes scholarship application in order to play against Harvard, but a shocking new report shows that he actually withdrew due to sexual assault allegations.
Childhood obesity is a growing problem, and the government is taking steps to try to curb it by changing what children are served for lunch in schools.
Before the iPhone debuted in 2007, Nokia was virtually alone in the smartphone world, and ever since then, it (and everyone else) has been chasing Apple. Nokia still sells more mobile phones than any other company, but mostly they are of the feature phone variety that don't have touchscreens and data plans. Nokia announced Jan. 26 they had lost over a billion dollars worth of business in the last three months of 2011, but their new line of Windows Phone-powered Lumia smartph...
Mother and newlywed Sherri Shepherd has donned hooker heels and scanty clothing for the movie One for the Money, which will be showing in theaters on Friday. The actress will let it all hang out in the comedy movie, a project she took on in addition to co-hosting The View, and working on the show The Newlyweds.
Americans working for U.S. organizations promoting democracy in Egypt have been barred from leaving the country, leading an angry Washington to accuse Egypt of endangering American lives.
Eric T. Schneiderman, the so-called Sheriff of Wall Street as New York state's attorney general, is heading a new, consolidated effort to find the criminality that led to the housing crisis.
What does this re-reunion say?
The Navy SEALs strike that rescued two Western aid workers on Tuesday, coming as the Pentagon begins detailing how it will adapt to massive budget cuts, reflects a shifting emphasis toward elite, nimble units that can carry out targeted operations.
Snooki is in some interesting company.
When signing up to fight terror in New York City, trainees were exposed to a film contained lines like 'much of Muslim leadership here in America' is to 'infiltrate and dominate,' reported the New York Times.
President Barack Obama's proposal to allow millions of homeowners to reduce mortgage payments is the latest in a series of federal efforts to aid the housing market, but it faces a number of obstacles.
Nixon hints that she'd be willing to call herself bisexual if the label did not have such a negative charge
Twitter has greatly affected the way news stories evolve.
While many would love to become Maria Sharapova's boyfriend, the gorgeous tennis star is unfortunately off the market.
Why is Warren Buffet's secretary an honored guest at the 2012 State Union?
Italian officials said Tuesday that divers found a 16th body on the Costa Concordia. The crews were making preparation on Tuesday, for extracting the oil so as to prevent an environmental disaster, when divers found the body of the elderly woman.
A slight majority of Americans -- 52 percent -- say they favor raising tax rates on capital gains to match the rate for wage income, according to new poll by The New York Times and CBS.
On Monday, Washington Sen. Mary Margaret Haugen announced she would vote in favor of gay marriage, poising the state to become the seventh in the nation to allow same-sex couples to marry.
There are still hundreds of pages of campaign finance regulations and many of them are unconstitutional, says James Bopp, the legal mind behind the U.S. Supreme Court's Citizens United case. But it'll take time to knock them down.
A Boston based hacker who gets hired by companies to find holes in their cyber-security now says videoconferencing equipment is, in general, wide-open to attack.
