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CNBC "So, what's up for 2016?" Morgan Stanley's Adam Parker asks. In a note titled "2016 US Equity Strategy Outlook: Feeling Worse, But Not Sure We Can Explain It," Parker gets a little philosophical as he lays out his e...

WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration on Thursday defended plans to deport families who fled violence from Central America as "consistent with our laws and our values." Adults and children who don't qualify for asylum w...

Americans are slowly losing their religion, according to an annual poll released Thursday. The number of adults who do not affiliate with any faith has increased over time, to 19.6 percent -- up from 14.6 percent in 2008...

As Silicon Valley's wunderkinds outgrow their hoodies, tech companies are seeking new ways to land and retain talent.

A new poll by Transparency International shows that corruption is still holding Africa back - but there are encouraging signs.

Foreign ministers discuss what is needed to encourage Syrian government and rebels to enter dialogue.

Thomson Reuters It has been a horrible year for the hedge fund industry.  The average hedge fund is down 3.72% this year, according to Hedge Fund Research. And there have been numerous highly publicized hedge fund closi...

New York-based FanDuel and Boston-based DraftKings filed separate lawsuits against Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan on Thursday, a day after she declared daily fantasy sports betting illegal in the state. …

Japanese mountaineer Kei Taniguchi dies in fall while climbing peak in Hokkaido

The Arizona man accused of training and arming two men who went on to attack a "draw Muhammad" cartoon contest in Texas has been indicted on charges that he accessed an Islamic State list that recorded the names and home...

"There's lights, there's carols, but there's an underlying sense of tension"

In the year after ISIS rampaged across the Middle East in a bid to seize territory and establish a self-declared Islamic "caliphate," the terrorist group continued to be a major threat to the world, pulling off sophistic...

Earth to astronaut Tim Peake: Check the phone number before you dial. Otherwise the person you reach is likely to think you're some kind of nut case.

We deserve a better game on Christmas eve than Chargers at Raiders, as the two have 10 wins between them and at least one may be moving to LA. Sure, it's Charles Woodson's last home game and perhaps the last home game fo...

The defections are causing tensions within al-Shabab

Sean Gallup/Getty Images Alibaba Group Holding Ltd has agreed to invest $1.25 billion in Chinese online food delivery service Ele.me, leading business weekly Caixin reported on Friday. The report, citing unidentified sou...

Apple is demanding Samsung pay an additional $180 million in the companies' long-running patent dispute. The request comes less than two weeks after Samsung finally agreed to pay Apple $548 million in accordance with the...

Officials wonder aloud if public infrastructure could be digitally disabled, but researchers say ISIS is not nearly so sophisticated, or inclined.

It was a little tough to whittle our choices for the best movies of 2015 down to 11, but we did. If you’d told us five years ago that we’d be getting new Jurassic Park, Star Wars and Mad Max movies, and that they’d...

British spaceman says "Hello, is this planet Earth?" to woman who answered.