Union Pacific Corp. (NYSE: UNP), the largest track network in the U.S., reached its highest stock price ever on Friday as it shifts its business to natural gas producers as coal shipments drop.
The Dallas Cowboys expect to compete for an NFC East title in 2012 with a revamped defense. Do they have enough to win their division?
Space enthusiasts gathered in Times Square very early on Monday morning to glimpse the first images from NASA's new Mars rover, Curiosity.
Adirondack State Park, the largest state-protected preserve in the contiguous United States, grew by 69,000 acres Sunday in the greatest single addition to the park in over a century.
On Sunday, tennis legend Serena Williams made history not only as the second woman to complete a career Golden Slam, but also as the first woman to do the crip walk after a historic win.
Sanya Richards-Ross, the wife of Jacksonville Jaguars cornerback Aaron Ross, took home the gold medal in the 400-meters at the Olympics in London. Richards-Ross's win comes four years after an emotional loss left her unsatisfied with an Olympic bronze medal.
Mere days after a systems failure within the automated operations of one of its market-markers caused wild distortions in the New York Stock Exchange, a major European bourse is having its own version of a technical meltdown.
Oscar winner Natalie Portman has married Benjamin Millepied in the coastal California town of Big Sur, reports E! Online.
Knight Capital Group Inc. (NYSE: KCG), which lost $440 million last week when a trading program it had just installed went berserk, confirmed Monday it reached a $400 million rescue deal that will keep the big market maker in business but hammer existing investors.
The FBI, probing the Wisconsin Sikh Temple shooting, in which a gunman killed six and critically injured three others on Sunday, hinted that it could be an act of domestic terrorism. Meanwhile, the Sikh community in the U.S calls it a crime of "hate and ignorance."
Even before news of Apple's acquisition of fingerprint scanning company AuthenTec could take effect among technology enthusiasts, news of Apple considering another company, The Fancy, a growing e-commerce related Social Network is gathering pace.
Crude oil futures declined during the Asian trading hours Monday after surging the most in a month in the previous session on upbeat U.S. jobs data.
Sunday's Olympic Games saw several stunning performances, as Usain Bolt, Andy Murray, and more stunned audiences and secured their places at the 2012 London Games.
Macaulay Culkin was spotted at Natalie Portman's wedding on Saturday in the wake of unconfirmed reports that he had fallen into deep heroin addiction and rumors of his death circulating on the Internet.
NASA will be attempting one of its most impressive and technically challenging feats ever, as it tries to land the Curiosity rover on the surface of Mars within hours. Obviously, Mars is pretty far away, which means you can't see it in person. So how best to watch the landing? Read on.
Marilyn is as great a legend as this country as ever produced – she shares eternal life with such luminaries as Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, John Wayne and Louis Armstrong.
Not only did this represent a grave violation of fair trade practices, but it also smacked of a naked ploy to consolidate their political bases (who, no doubt, agree with their views anyway).
It's only been a few days since American gymnast Gabrielle "Gabby" Douglas won gold medals in both the individual and the team competitions at the London 2012 Olympic Games, and it already looks like the young athlete is going to be honored with her face on a cereal box.
Even though Carmelita Jeter is an Olympic athlete who won a silver medal Saturday, she might never shake the questions about the athlete with whom she shares a last name: superstar New York Yankee Derek Jeter.
Curtis Martin and Cortez Kennedy -- as well as Jack Butler, Dermontti Dawson, Chris Doleman, and Willie Roaf -- will be honored at the Pro Football Hall of Fame enshirement ceremony to air on ESPN and the NFL Network Saturday at 7 p.m. EDT.
President Obama is one of the youngest presidents in history, coming in only behind Ulysses S. Grant, Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy and Bill Clinton. The 44th president is spending his birthday golfing and having dinner with the first lady at Camp David. He'll attend fundraising events across the country in the next few days in an attempt to make sure this won't be his last birthday in the White House.
Jennifer Aniston has certainly come a long way from the quirky role of Rachel Green on “Friends.” On Thursday the actress showed off her tan legs with style, sporting a pair of roughed-up skimpy shorts on the set of her new movie “We Are the Millers.”
