NASA defines a potentially hazardous asteroid as one large enough to survive the intense heat generated by entry into the atmosphere and cau...

Many analysts and traders bet that Facebook's IPO could spark a bit of jubilation next week among investors -- despite pesky problems in Eur...

Perhaps Romney really doesn't remember the assault on John Lauber nearly a half-century ago, despite the fact that so many of the other peop...

Economist Simon Johnson said the JPMorgan Chase episode highlights why U.S. regulators need to shrink big banks. He said the banks are so bi...

The AAA reading of gas prices, compiled by the Oil Price Information Service (OPIS), shows prices down about a half-cent a day since reachin...

As it stands, none of the main parties appear able to form a coalition government, which means the Greek president will have an opportunity ...

Facebook's shares at that point are trading around $35 -- the high point of its proposed IPO price range -- that stock bonanza would be wort...

A version of Edvard Munch's "The Scream" brought an auction record of $119 million at Sotheby's on May 2, and a Mark Rothko painting "Orange...

Interest rates on federal student loans are scheduled to rise to 6.8% from the current 3.4% in July unless Congress acts. But Democrats and ...

The cost of filing for bankruptcy has risen in recent years as a result of the 2005 Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act,...

Reagan had an advantage over Obama: The recession of the early 1980s was caused by runaway inflation, which the Federal Reserve countered by...

Ditto for Michele Bachmann. Granted, she dropped out in January and waited a long time to endorse -- until Romney was the last man standing....

A person is counted as part of the labor force if they have a job or have looked for one in the last four weeks. Only about 64% of Americans...

The rental vacancy rate dropped to 8.8% during the first quarter, down from 9.7% a year earlier and from 9.4% in the last quarter of 2011, a...