Apple Inc., seeking to revolutionize the publishing business in the same way the iPod transformed the music industry, unveiled a tablet computer starting at $499, a price that was 50 percent lower than some analysts predicted.

A stock analyst claims that the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index may retreat 20 percent from a 15-month high because [...]

China says it arrested thousands of people over the course of 2009 in a crackdown on Web pornography and says it will continue the push in the new year. The Chinese government announced late this week that the sweeping effort resulted in 5,394 arrests and 4,186 criminal investigations, a fourfold increase over the year prior.

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The Healthcare bill has passed in the Senate. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has drawn both condemnation and adulation for deals he struck to win passage of legislation for the biggest overhaul of the U.S. healthcare system in more than four decades.

Windows 7, just two months on the market, is accelerating the pace of corporate [...]

Obama accepts the Nobel Peace Prize, and explains why the war in Afghanistan is ‘just’.

The Wall Street Journal explores the new American dream: own, foreclose, rent.

U.S. House lawmakers Friday approved legislation that would make historic changes to the government’s oversight of U.S. financial markets and would revolutionize the way businesses and consumers deal with financial [...]

The decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who has claimed he was the mastermind of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and four others in a civilian federal court in New York City is raising eyebrows from the public.

If nothing is done, the number of Americans with diabetes will nearly double in the next 25 years and [...]

An Israeli prisoner exchange with Hamas has not yet been agreed and might not happen, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, after a senior cabinet colleague predicted a breakthrough within weeks.

The United States has offered to add Israeli systems and munitions to a new US-built fighter [...]