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Jorge Ayala cooperated against Miami drug kingpin Griselda Blanco, but doomed case with phone sex with state secretaries.

In all likelihood, you're probably as tired of hearing about the Samsung vs. Apple kerfuffle as we are writing about it, but Microsoft has decided to take advantage of the feud with a new commercial for Windows Phone tha...

San Jose, Calif., police say a local woman with no criminal record replaced orange juice bottles in a Starbucks cold box with tainted ones - and they are puzzled about why she may have done it. Ramineh Behbehanian, 50, w...

CVS Caremark will release its first quarter earnings for fiscal 2013 on May 1. The company delivered strong results for FY 2012 as net revenues grew by $16 billion over 2011 to reach $123 billion. This was supported by r...

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MasterCard is scheduled to report earnings for the first quarter on Wednesday, May 1. The card processing giant has maintained double digit revenue growth the last few years and posted 13% growth in 2012. We expect the c...

The leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah militant group said Tuesday that Syrian rebels will not be able to defeat President Bashar Assad's regime militarily, warning that Syria's "real friends," including his Iranian-backed mi...

Brazil isn't going broke anytime soon. Nor is it going the way of Venezuela and Argentina with its uber populist policies and threats of defaults of some kind or another -- either through debt, or by canceling contracts ...

The government is moving the morning-after pill over the counter but only those 15 and older can buy it -- an attempt to find middle ground just days before a court-imposed deadline to lift all age restrictions on the em...

Doesn't Sanford's disappearing act in itself question his fitness for office? Kinda like Sarah "Mama Grizzly" Palin sniffing around the possibility of running for President when she couldn't even commit to a full term as...

Samsung Electronics delivered a yet another stellar performance in Q1 2013, riding the smartphone boom to grow revenues by 17% and operating profits by an even higher 54% over the same period last year. Driven by the imm...

NEW YORK/LONDON, April 30 (IFR) - Apple Inc wowed the debt markets on Tuesday with the largest non-bank bond deal in history, pricing a whopping $17 billion as the U.S. computer giant switches strategy to placate restles...

Those accused of minor offenses in the Bronx have all but lost their fundamental right to a trial, subjected to such hardship in pursuit of a hearing that it is often easiest to agree to a plea bargain.

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Many large businesses, including industrial operations, have long produced their own power instead of relying only on their local utilities. The emergence of solar, fuel cells and other low-carbon technologies are openin...

Scientists are unsure what caused the squashed skull and tiny body size.

Less than a month after disclosing his initial position in voice-recognition firm Nuance, billionaire investor Carl Icahn disclosed he's still buying the stock. The legendary activist now controls more than 10% of the co...

If the notion of an intruder hacking into your smartphone or PC seems disturbing, just imagine an even more personal sort of privacy breach--a hacker who gains full access to your sight.

More and more the call is for short speeches. Of course, the popularity of TED and TEDx talks are one cause, but the impatient of the times is another, along with our shrinking attention spans and all the other distracti...

(AP Photo/Eric Risberg) Apple launched its first debt offering in almost 20 years Tuesday and by all accounts demand for the new six-part issuance was so robust the iPhone-maker will pay interest rates near or below Corp...

Congress Grapples With 5 Key Questions After Boston Bombings

The dark new action-RPG from Megaman creator Keiji Inafune is a gripping, if sometimes repetitive, PS Vita game.