Donna Summer, whom millions of fans revered as “the Queen of Disco,” has died at the age of 63 in Florida after a battle with cancer, the Associated Press has confirmed with the singer’s family Thursday morning. (read the story…)
John Edwards was a bad husband who cheated on his wife while she died of cancer, but he never broke the law, his lawyer said in closing arguments today. (read the story…)
Mitt Romney’s public image appears to be rebounding. A new Gallup poll finds 50 percent of Americans polled have a “favorable” view of the presumptive Republican nominee—an 11-point jump since February. According to Gallup, that’s the highest favorable rating the poll has recorded since they began tracking opinions about Romney in 2006. Romney’s favorable...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – JPMorgan Chase & Co Chief Executive Jamie Dimon will be invited to testify before Congress over the recent trading losses announced by the bank, U.S. Senate Banking Committee Chairman Tim Johnson said in a statement on Thursday. Johnson did not say on what date the committee wants Dimon to appear but...
A short documentary now playing on the Internet is the best movie about Mark Zuckerberg yet. It’s studded with clues to the workings of Zuckerberg’s brain, and possibly even clues to the future of Facebook, which makes its initial public stock offering on Friday. (read the story…)
The latest news fueling Massachusetts gossip mills comes from the Herald, which reports that Warren, a Democrat, contributed five recipes to a 1984 cookbook entitled “Pow Wow Chow,” which was promoted as a collection of “special recipes passed down through the Five Tribes families.” (read the story…)
The veteran Republican political consultant Fred Davis is considering an ad campaign that criticizes President Obama’s ties to his former controversial pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the New York Times reported Thursday. (read the story…)
Mary Kennedy, the estranged wife of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., died of “asphyxiation due to hanging,” according to the results of an autopsy performed on Thursday. (read the story…)
Lawmakers on Capitol Hill expressed frustration Thursday that states, not the federal government, will have to deal with the majority of clean-up when marine debris from last year’s tsunami in Japan hits the West Coast. During the first hearing on tsunami debris held by the… (more…)
Toyota Motor Corp. President Akio Toyoda took the helm at Japan's auto industry group Thursday with a promise to keep production and jobs at home to help along the country's recovery from last year's tsunami disaster. (more…)
Japan's gross domestic product grew at nearly double the U.S. rate for the first quarter, an unexpectedly strong sign of recovery in the wake of last year's devastating earthquake and tsunami.Japanese GDP grew 4.1% annual rate in the first quarter, showing post-tsunami rebound. That's nearly doubled the U.S. annual rate of 2.2%. (more…)
Japan's gross domestic product grew at nearly double the U.S. rate for the first quarter, an unexpectedly strong sign of recovery in the wake of last year's devastating earthquake and tsunami. (more…)
SunGard has extended its suite of securities finance solutions with the launch of Apex JSFC Trade Manager, which helps reduce the costs and increase the productivity of lenders participating in the Japan Securities Finance Corporation’s (JSFC) daily auction of securities lending requirements. … (get the story…)
Japan's economy grew an at annual rate of 4.1 percent in the first quarter amid a gradual recovery from last year's catastrophic earthquake and tsunami. (read more here…)
Japan's biggest potential investment in U.S. agriculture can be summed up in a single word: China. Marubeni's interest in buying U.S. grains merchant Gavilon to help provide grain to its hungry Asian neighbor … (read more…)
Japan's biggest potential investment in U.S. agriculture can be summed up in a single word: China. Marubeni's interest in buying U.S. grains merchant Gavilon to help provide grain to its hungry Asian neighbor … (read more…)
The presiding judge in the U.N. trial of Gen. Ratko Mladic has delayed indefinitely the presentation of evidence that had been scheduled to start later this month due to “errors” by prosecutors in disclosing evidence to defense lawyers. (read the story…)
Mitt Romney raised just over $40 million for his campaign and the Republican National Committee in April—a pace that nearly matched the $44 million that President Obama raised during the same period. (read the story…)
Romney nearly matched the $44 million that President Obama raised during the same period. (read the story…)
Police and FBI officials were poring over more than 100 tips as they hunted for a man accused of stabbing his new wife to death and leaving her body in her bathtub, still clad in her silver-sequined wedding dress. (read the story…)
The Death of RFK Jr.’s wife is the Latest Tragedy for the Kennedy Family. (read the story…)
For the first time, racial and ethnic minorities make up more than half the children born in the U.S., capping decades of heady immigration growth that is now slowing. (read the story…)
National foreclosure trends took a positive turn in April, as the number of homes seized by banks declined and fewer properties entered into the foreclosure process. (read the story…)
With only two hours each to make their closing arguments, prosecutors and defense lawyers neared the end of a month-long trial into whether former presidential hopeful John Edwards violated campaign finance laws. (read the story…)
