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Sesame Street debuts its new hungry, poverty-stricken Muppet Lily on Sunday's primetime special Growing Hope Against Hunger.

As European banks seek state help and U.S. lenders shore up shaky balance sheets, Canada's well-performing banks have stepped up their efforts to poach talent from rivals around the world.

The Vancouver housing market is attracting unusually strong demand but Canada as a whole does not face a housing bubble that requires government action, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said on Wednesday.

The euro zone's services sector shrank for the first time in two years in September as new orders dried up, stoking fears that the region's economy could be heading back into recession.

Food from the Texas State Fair is always likely to be legendary. Here are some of the most interesting items on the menu this year.

As the Occupy Wall Street movement spreads across the country and the GOP presidential race heats up, the two have sort of merged, with Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain telling the protestors if they don't have a job, it's their own doing.

A five percent tax surcharge on millionaires and billionaires would replace more unpalatable provisions President Barack Obama suggested to pay for his $447 billion jobs package.

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Seattle police threatened protesters with arrest if they did not take down the tents they had set up in Westlake Park. The Occupy protests have spread across the country in a matter of weeks.

The Occupy Wall Street protest is poised to enter a new phase on Wednesday afternoon, with union support for an afternoon march and rally potentially swelling the demonstration to an unprecedented size.

Sources affiliated with the hacker group Anonymous claim a video that says the hackers' plan to erase the New York Stock Exchange from the Internet in a move to support the Occupy Wall Street Movement is a hoax.

Stocks were little changed on Wednesday as European finance ministers appeared ready to prop up struggling banks while reports on the U.S. labor market and services sector came in stronger than expected.

Adrian Beltre powered the Texas Rangers back into the American League Championship Series (ALCS) by pounding three home runs in a 4-3 win over the Tampa Bay Rays Tuesday.

Burnett tossed 5 2/3 innings, giving up just one run to force a Game 5.

U.S. Rep. Frank Wolf, R-Va., criticized the influence anti-tax activist Grover Norquist has on Washington.

Representatives of the Dalai Lama, who is based in northern India, began the visa application process in June.

Upon the upcoming release of her lavish wedding on E!, Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries shared their first interview together. Just finished my 1st interview ever with my hubby @KrisHumphries on Jay Leno! Kardashian tweeted.

Conservative author and commentator Ann Coulter derided the Occupy Wall Street protesters by saying the movement is simliar to the Nazis' rise to power in Germany in the 1930s, and that the protesters also represent the start of totalitarianism in the U.S.

Now that Chris Christie's flirtation with the Republican presidential race has ended in rejection, polling suggests that Mitt Romney's steady courtship of potential voters may ultimately render him the nomination.

Goals from Luke Rodgers and Thierry Henry helped New York Red Bulls beat Los Angeles Galaxy 2-0 and give themselves a fair shout of making the final play-off berth.

No longer seen as young outcasts with no direction or anything better to do than Occupy Wall Street in protest, the movement that began in New York's financial district is gaining momentum with middle America.