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The U.S. economy has been in a recession since December 2007, the National Bureau of Economic Research said Monday.

Nov 29, 2008 | 2 comments

Obama wins the White House. Sex scandals. Stock market crashes, rebounds and crashes again. Natural disasters. See the year's top news in photos.

Dec 1, 2008

On Monday morning, parents dropped their children off at school and many shopkeepers opened their doors for the first time since the attacks ravaged Mumbai

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Giants receiver arrived at a Manhattan police station in a black Cadillac Escalade this morning to face gun charges.

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Investors usettled about the holiday shopping season Monday gave back some of Wall Street's recent gains, sending the Dow Jones industrial average down more than 400 points. While initial reports about...

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“I'd like to live life without the limelight for a while,” Bush said in the first part of an interview with ABC aired on “Good Morning America.”

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CHICAGO – When Sen. Hillary Clinton joins President-elect Barack Obama in Chicago today for the rollout of his foreign policy team, with her as secretary of State, it will mark the latest evolution...

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The newest spy tools can turn the average person into a private eye.

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Good morning. Last week, we announced our economic team, which is working as we speak to craft an Economic Recovery Program to create jobs and grow our struggling economy. Today, Vice President-elect Biden...

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He once begrudgingly called her "likable enough," she dismissed his foreign policy views as "irresponsible and frankly naive." So why is it that Barack Obama's is nominating Hillary Clinton to be his secretary...

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Read this and you'll look smart. You don't have to be intelligent to impress people -- you just have to fake it...

Dec 1, 2008

President-elect Barack Obama will be presented with an attache case known as "the football" on Jan. 20 -- a case that is chock full of nuclear codes and secrets that only a select few have seen.

Nov 30, 2008 | 13 comments

Gay is the new black, say the protest signs and magazine covers, casting the gay marriage battle as the last frontier of equal rights for all.

Nov 30, 2008 | 1 comment

Palin’s flash emergence on the national stage has left her as well positioned as any Republican to make a serious run for the GOP nomination in 2012, yet waning support from the political center may threaten...

Dec 1, 2008

A group of whales that became stranded on a remote coastline in southern Australia were battered to death on rocks before rescuers could save them.

Dec 1, 2008 | 1 comment

The world's most comprehensive legalized heroin program has become permanent with overwhelming approval from Swiss voters who simultaneously rejected the decriminalization of marijuana.

Dec 1, 2008 | 1 comment

President George W. Bush on Sunday dispatched Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to New Delhi in support of India following the terrorist attacks that killed nearly 200 people, including six American...

Dec 1, 2008

Cash-strapped adult developments across the nation are considering scrapping the age restriction that bar young whippersnappers from their communities in order to stay afloat.

Nov 30, 2008

Survivor claims the ten terrorists had planned to blow up the Taj Mahal hotel after slaying British and American tourists and taking hostages.

Dec 1, 2008

Asian stock markets were mixed Monday as investors digested signs that the U.S. holiday shopping season got off to a tepid start over the key Thanksgiving weekend.

Nov 30, 2008 | 2 comments

Laura Bush says what she will miss the most about the White House are the people.

Nov 30, 2008

The announcement blaming militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba, threatened to escalate tensions between India and Pakistan. However, Indian officials have been cautious about accusing Pakistan's government of...

Nov 30, 2008

Space shuttle and its seven astronauts safely returned to Earth on Sunday, landing in sunny California after storms hit the main landing strip in Florida.

Nov 30, 2008 | 5 comments

As part of a startling roster of concessions to President-elect Obama, former President Bill Clinton has agreed to release the long-secret list of donors to his presidential library. "It speaks to President...