The S&P 500 closed little changed, with a rally in banks offsetting broader declines paced by consumer shares.
A call from a scared Pittsburg, Calif., mother that her adult son was armed with a gun, possibly on drugs and trying to get inside the family home ended with police shooting him, his father and his younger brother Tuesday night, police said.
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Three top editors at RBC, a Russian media organization that includes a business newspaper and the country’s best political Web site, left their jobs last week. Their departures are bound to be followed by major changes to editorial policy at the company, which is owned by the billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov, in yet another major blow to press freedom in Russia.
The love is definitely over between Mayor de Blasio and the animal rights group that helped elect him.
What if you held a Supreme Court confirmation hearing and nobody came? It might look something like the Wednesday event that Senate Democrats staged to highlight the fact that no hearing is on the horizon for nominee Merrick Garland.
Right after being acquitted on murder charges, OJ Simpson whispered something in his attorney Robert Shapiro's ear
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Chris Jacobs: A proposed refundable tax credit aimed at mitigating the effects of rising health costs for some families could end up exacerbating the problem on a broader scale.
Analysts weigh in on big name retail earnings reports, like Target, and their implications on the industry's future.
Bristol win at Doncaster in the Championship play-off final first leg to take a big step towards promotion to the Premiership.
A 33-year-old bicyclist was in critical condition after a taxi hit ran him over in San Francisco’s North Beach neighborhood Tuesday evening, police said. A cab going north on Mason Street around 6:15 p.m. hit the man while he was riding west in a crosswalk at the intersection of North Point Street. The bicyclist suffered abrasions on his elbow, face, shoulders and back as he went underneath the car on impact, authorities said.
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Donald Trump has reached the phase of his campaign where he tries to solicit huge checks from Wall Street barons.
Coincidentally, Trump says that he will soon release a bank-regulation plan that will come "close to dismantling Dodd-Frank," the 2010 law that imposed new regulations and restrictions on banks. Dodd-Frank is, naturally, much disliked on Wall Street.
"Dodd-Frank has made it impossible for bankers to function," he told Reuters on Tuesday. "It... Читать дальше...
The new Secretary of the Army, who happens to be gay, was confirmed without a single vote of opposition in a Republican-led Senate. That's amazing.
BOSTON — Nearly six decades after 46 people died when the Andrea Doria sank to the sea floor following a violent collision with another ocean liner south of Nantucket, Mass., explorers are preparing to do what 16 people have lost their lives attempting: get a good look at the wreckage. Everett, Wash.-based OceanGate will use its five-man submersible Cyclops I next month to get high-definition video and 3-D sonar images of the shipwreck, technology never before used to study one of the nation's most famous maritime disasters. Читать дальше...
