US Futures Fall After Tech Giants Rattle Market
Posted: 7:05 AM Stock futures are ending the week on a down note after a pair of major tech companies rattled markets with subpar performances during the most recent quarter.
Posted: 7:05 AM Stock futures are ending the week on a down note after a pair of major tech companies rattled markets with subpar performances during the most recent quarter.
Posted: 4:52 AM Officials have told school lunch programs across the country to check to see if they have Smucker's Uncrustables sandwiches that might contain peanut butter from a New Mexico company subject to a nationwide recall over salmonella contamination - and not to serve them.
Posted: 10:44 PM President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney have pulled their punches a bit with comedic jabs in New York at a Catholic fundraiser for needy children.
Updated: 1:19 PM Democrats and Republicans alike are fretting over what might go seriously wrong before, during - or just after - the Nov. 6 presidential election.
Posted: 1:35 PM OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - A second man who was injured in an explosion at a southern Oklahoma oil refinery has died.
Posted: 9:03 AM AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Lance Armstrong is stepping down as chairman of his Livestrong cancer-fighting charity to it can focus on its mission instead of its founder's problems.
Updated: 9:15 AM An aggressive President Barack Obama accused challenger Mitt Romney of favoring a "one-point plan" to help the rich in America and playing politics with the recent deadly terrorist attack in Libya in a Tuesday night debate crackling with energy and emotion just three weeks before the election.
Updated: 1:05 PM Citigroup is offering no explanation for Tuesday's sudden resignation of the bank's CEO, Vikram Pandit.
Posted: 10:48 PM U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is taking responsibility for security at the U.S. consulate in Libya where an attack by extremists last month killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans.
Posted: 7:02 AM Stock futures are rebounding after the worst week in more than four months, with economists expecting better news on retail sales and growing business confidence.
Updated: 10:57 PM Former Sen. Arlen Specter from Pennsylvania died today at age 82.
Updated: 10:55 PM The first skydiver to break the speed of sound as he jumped from 24 miles above the Earth says "Sometimes we have to get really high to see how small we are."
Posted: 9:30 AM President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney won't be making campaign appearances today.
Posted: 8:44 AM Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is preparing for his second debate with President Barack Obama but still taking time to tell voters in Ohio that enthusiasm for him is surging both in Ohio and across the country.
Updated: 9:09 AM Anyone who paid attention to a hearing in Congress this week knew that the administration had been implored to beef up security at the U.S. Consulate in Libya before the deadly terrorist attack there. But in the vice presidential debate Thursday night, Joe Biden seemed unaware.
Posted: 2:36 PM American Airlines says it will cut passenger-carrying capacity by 1 percent in the first half of November as it tries to recover from widespread delays and a spike in cancelations.
Updated: 11:12 AM Democrat Joe Biden and Republican Paul Ryan pull up a couple of chairs for a vice presidential debate that has mushroomed in importance since Mitt Romney's strong showing in the first presidential faceoff.
Updated: 9:54 AM Yemeni security officials say a gunman has assassinated the Yemeni chief of security at the U.S. Embassy in Sanaa.
Posted: 5:47 AM Toyota says the overnight recall of 7.43 million vehicles over faulty power window switches that can cause fires is a sign the Japanese company has learned from its mistakes.
Posted: 5:44 AM U.S. foreclosure filings dropped to a five-year low in September as fewer homes were on track to be seized by lenders.
