Weekly Jobless Claims Jump to 360,000

(WASHINGTON) -- After falling to a five-year low in the beginning of the month, jobless claims have shot back up, the Labor Department reported Thursday morning. For the week ending May... Read More

Subaru Forester Scores Top Rating in New Crash Test

(NEW YORK) -- For the first time, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) has conducted crash tes... Read More

Boxing and Floyd Mayweather: Perfect Storm for Highest-Paid Athlete

(NEW YORK) -- The highest-paid U.S. athlete is not endorsed by Nike, nor does he own a clothing line. Boxing champion Floyd Mayweather, Jr. was named the highest-paid U.S. athlete for th... Read More

More than Half of Mobile Device Owners Use Them to Play Games

(NEW YORK) -- Mobile devices obviously help people keep in touch, but they are more and more becoming a popular source of entertainment. A new survey conducted by Harris Interactive on beh... Read More

Coffee Date with Tim Cook Goes for $610K in Charity Auction

(NEW YORK) -- A 30-minute- to- one-hour coffee date with Apple CEO Tim Cook was auctioned for $610,000 on Charitybuzz, tying the record for the highest winning bid on that website, which previously... Read More

Google Plans to Bring Hangouts App and More Social Features to Glass

(SAN FRANCISCO) -- During a three-hour keynote at its Google I/O conference, Google didn’t talk at all about Glass, its glasses that overlay digital information in the physical world.... Read More

Powerball: Seven States That Won't Cash In on the $360M Drawing

(NEW YORK) -- With Wednesday night's Powerball drawing set at a staggering $360 million, jackpot junkies eagerly await the announcement for the winning numbers to see if they beat the odds.... Read More

Walmart Fires Supplier After Bangladesh Revelation

(NEW YORK) -- For the second time in a year, Walmart has announced it would be firing a clothing supplier after a deadly incident revealed garments bound for their stores were being produced under... Read More

New Highs on Wall Street

(NEW YORK) -- The Dow Jones Industrial Average hits another all-time high, closing at 15,275.69, up 60.44 points. Record closes for several blue-chip companies helped to boost Wednesday's average.... Read More

Will Angelina Jolie Announcement Boost Biotech Stocks?

(LOS ANGELES) -- While Angelina Jolie’s announcement on Tuesday that she had a double mastectomy after learning she carried a genetic predisposition for breast cancer raised awareness about g... Read More