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Even as President Obama warns that the sequester will harm the economy and people who are already struggling, Republicans like Reps.
Washington's sequester standoff drags on: 'Mr. President, you got your tax increase' With Friday's deadline looming, neither party budged on spending cuts Monday, as both Obama and Boehner bemoaned the sequester as potentially catastrophic for the economy. Read more: Photos: AP
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Is this what Michelle Obama looks like untethered to the pressure of a campaign? Is she free to follow her whims without worries about political backlash?
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Waiting for vote results at the headquarters of Silvio Berlusconi's People of Freedom party in Rome on Feb. 25, 2013. Email · Print; Share.
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Microblogging site says it will have an app available for the browser-based mobile operating system when handsets launch in the next couple of months.
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Asian stocks were lower on Tuesday with inconclusive elections in Italy led to a sharp overnight rise in the Japanese yen, which translated into a sharp fall in Japanese shares.
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The Mediterranean diet has long been touted as healthy. Now a study released Monday of the effects of a diet rich in olive oil, nuts, vegetables, fruits and fish confirms that.
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A small band of rebel fighters pointed towards a gaping hole in the ground in the middle of an orchard. "Sometimes families live there to keep safe," I was told.
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LONDON - Syrian opposition members have reportedly reversed their decision to boycott a meeting in Rome on Thursday with Secretary of State John F. Kerry and other world leaders, averting a potential embarrassment for Kerry on his first overseas trip as ...
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Mourners for Arafat Jaradat, who died in Israeli custody, at his funeral in Sair on Monday. Palestinians and Israelis worry a broader uprising is brewing.
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LONDON - When Prime Minister David Cameron unveiled his plan to legalize same-sex marriage last year, Britain's highest Roman Catholic cleric took to the national pulpit.
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(CNN) -- Phillip Prince has been sitting in his tractor-trailer, stuck on Interstate 40 near Groom, Texas, for hours. Nine hours and four minutes, to be precise.
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But somehow the beleaguered department managed. Last week an employee came up with a brochure that used offensive images. It included a mug shot of a bug-eyed black man, and another of comedian Dave Chappelle as a crack fiend.
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BOSTON - State inspectors say they have found serious safety problems with buses used by a popular discount bus service operating between Boston and New York City.
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe nominated the president of the Asian Development Bank to lead the Bank of Japan. The WSJ's Jake Schlesinger tells us why Haruhiko Kuroda was Abe's first choice as he attempts to end decades of deflation.
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Asian stocks and U.K. equity index futures fell on concern Italy's elections will lead to renewed turmoil in European markets.
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While $17 billion of lost market capitalization has cost CME Group Inc. the title of world's most valuable exchange owner, its stock commands a valuation that would make buying Germany's Deutsche Boerse AG bargain.
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Samsung - who unseated Apple in the smartphone category in our 2013 Customer Loyalty Engagement Index - is now taking Apple on in the tablet category.
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In the latest sign that South Korea's huge technology companies are continuing their pursuit of intellectual property assets world-wide, LG Electronics Inc. has struck a deal with Hewlett-Packard Co.
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Straying from the series' roots, the latest Tomb Raider is a gritty, disturbing take on the action-adventure genre. It's beautifully crafted, both technically and narratively, but most of all, it's just plain fun.
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It was an obvious assumption, when Seth Macfarlane was announced as the 2013 Academy Awards host, that this year's award show would be a laugh riot from beginning to end.
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Fresh off of her Oscar win, Jennifer Lawrence made a trip back to the dark side. The Silver Linings Playbook actress debuted a darker 'do today, after quickly leaving Rossano Ferretti salon in Beverly Hills, which is usually closed on Mondays but provides ...
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New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady made an emphatic statement Monday in agreeing to a three-year contract extension through 2017.
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The No. 48 Chevrolet team has a lighter side that belies a straight-laced reputation that has dogged Jimmie Johnson for years. 2-25-13-johnson-knaus-hendrick.
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Nikolai Khabibulin stumbled coming out of the tunnel from the Oilers' dressing room to start the second period before steadying himself on the bench and taking the ice.
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Nuggets 119 - Lakers 108 (final). The Denver Nuggets owned the paint, defeating the Lakers, 119-108. The Nuggets scored 78 points in the paint, taking advantage of 12 first-half Lakers' turnovers to build a sizable cushion.
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It's only Monday and it's already been a big week for Trekkies—following Captain Kirk's surprise appearance at Sunday's Academy Awards show, the results of online voting to name two recently discovered satellites of Pluto came in and "Vulcan" was the ...
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There has been a healthy debate in the scientific community about the linkage, if any, between the recent spate of extreme weather events and the ongoing increase in global temperatures.
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A federal panel has confirmed its initial recommendation against taking vitamin D and calcium supplements to prevent fractures after a review of scientific evidence found there is not enough evidence to suggest it will prevent broken bones in most ...
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He declared war on smoking, helped remove the stigma from AIDS and pioneered the use of the office of surgeon general as a megaphone for addressing Americans about health.
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Bayer healthcare, a part of German drug maker Bayer AG (BAYRY.PK,BAYZF.PK,BYR.L), announced Monday that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved its Stivarga tablets as a treatment for one of the most common tumors of the ...
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