Hemisphere Capital Management, one of the more active providers of private equity financing to Hollywood movie studios, has raised an additional $100 million from a group of banks and is negotiating … (read more…)
Japan says it has successfully performed the first commercial launch of a foreign-made satellite, putting a South Korean observation satellite into orbit. The Japanese H-2A rocket blasted off from … (read more…)
About 1.5 tons of debris was dumped in the Pacific by Japan's tsunami last year — and much of it is heading to the U.S. Now, Congress has been told officials don't have the money to clean … (read more…)
Facebook Inc shares fizzled on their first day of trade on the Nasdaq, erasing early gains of as much as 18 percent to trade close to their initial public offering price. (read the story…)
Nothing is easier to mock in politics right now than the apparent reluctance of leading Republicans to sign on as Mitt Romney’s second banana. A few weeks ago, Jon Stewart summarized the way that Rob Portman was plugging his Senate colleague Marco Rubio, who in turn was passing the baton to Jeb Bush, with...
John Edwards is facing the biggest vote of his life as the case against the former president candidate was given to the North Carolina jury this morning. (read the story…)
This is a good time to compare the giant social network with some of the other well-known tech outfits of the modern day, such as Google (GOOG), Microsoft (MSFT) and Apple (AAPL). (read the story…)
Mitt Romney’s campaign has begun the vetting process to find a suitable running mate, a source close to the campaign told The Hill’s Alexander Bolton: The team for Beth Myers, the Romney adviser leading the search for the GOP’s vice presidential nominee, has already contacted potential running mates. (read the story…)
Billionaire political donor Joe Ricketts clearly has President Barack Obama in his line of fire this election season, as we learned this week. But when it comes to Ricketts writing checks, apparently all Republicans–and even some libertarians–are welcome. (read the story…)
Michael J. Fox now believes the controversial therapy may not ultimately yield a cure for his disease, he told ABC’s Diane Sawyer in an exclusive interview. (read the story…)
In 2001, when I was a political/metro columnist for The Charlotte Observer, I had lunch with Sen. John Edwards at a Southern soul food restaurant on Tryon Street between the headquarters buildings of the twin banking colossi that defined this city. (read the story…)
An FBI expert said it was impossible to tell if the voice screaming for help belonged to the black Florida teenager or his shooter George Zimmerman. (read the story…)
Republican congressman Allen West claims there are Communists in Congress and Biden gets loud. (read the story…)
Japan's government Friday called on the nation's homes and businesses to cut their energy use by as much as 15 percent amid fears that nuclear plant shutdowns will spark power shortages and blackouts. (more here…)
Japan has taken a step towards becoming a nuclear nation again after councilors suggested reactor restarts. (more here…)
AS JAPAN’S government called today for homes and businesses to cut energy use by up to 15%, Norwegian broker RS Platou said Tokyo’s move would again boost the LNG sector. … (more here…)
Japan has not invited Fijian strongman Voreqe Bainimarama to a major Pacific leaders' forum next week, the foreign ministry said Friday, amid concerns his reforms have not gone far enough. (read more…)
Frustrated U.S. senators pressed a NOAA official Thursday about how his agency planned to detect and dispose of a massive tsunami debris field that's traveling from Japan to the North American West Coast. (more…)
Trayvon Martin’s autopsy shows he had marijuana in his system the night he was killed by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman, and a gunshot to his chest came from close range, according to nearly 200 pages of previously undisclosed documents released Thursday. (read the story…)
President Barack Obama on Friday kicks off a frenetic four days of guns-and-butter diplomacy, including a pair of high-stakes international summits focused on reviving the sputtering global economy and winding down the unpopular war in Afghanistan. Both issues will shape Obama’s legacy — not to mention his hopes for re-election in November. And the...
