There was nothing good about the Good Friday jobs report. But was the slowdown in hiring in March bad enough for the Federal Reserve to once again consider more stimulus for the economy?
U.S. stocks were poised to open lower on Tuesday, as world markets sold off amid economic growth worries in China and Europe.
At least three other government-backed solar firms face the same challenging market conditions that brought down Solyndra, the now bankrupt solar panel maker that could cost taxpayers over $500 million.
U.S. stocks were poised to open slightly higher Friday, as commodities continue to gain ground.
Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown is revealing he was sexually abused at the age of 10.
American consumers gave the economy a boost in the fourth quarter of 2010, as they loosened their purse strings.
Federal safety regulators have opened an investigation into gas tanks that could pose a fire danger on an estimated 3 million older Jeep Grand Cherokees, documents showed Tuesday.
Police confirm they found a man missing for four days after his car crashed off a New York parkway.
Four days after his car crashed off a New York parkway, a missing New York City man was found seriously injured but alive, according to a police spokesman.
The Senate took the first step Monday to extend the deadline for the jobless to file for unemployment insurance.
Health care stocks rallied Tuesday in anticipation of a Republican victory in the Massachusetts Senate race. Well, now it's official. Scott Brown has defeated Martha Coakley.
Republican Scott Brown won a major upset victory in Tuesday's special election for the U.S. Senate seat formerly held by liberal Democrat Ted Kennedy.
CNN's Kyra Phillips examines the national implications of the Senate race in Massachusetts.
Republican Scott Brown makes his victory speech after being declared the winner in the Massachusetts Senate race.
In a stunning upset that reshaped the U.S. political landscape, Republican Scott Brown won Tuesday's special election in Massachusetts for the U.S. Senate seat formerly held by liberal Democrat Ted Kennedy.
Scott Brown The Republican Senator-elect handed President Obama the first defeat of his presidency. After trailing by double digits a little more than a week ago, yesterday Brown beat Democrat Martha Coakley in the race to fill the late Ted Kennedy's Senate seat. No Republican had won a U.S. Senate race in Massachusetts since 1972. Brown, a 50-year-old state senator, campaigned as the pickup truck-driving candidate, capitalizing on voter frustrations and vowing to send Obama's health care bill "back to its drawing board." The GOP win in Tuesday's special election means that Democrats have lost their 60-seat, filibuster-proof majority in the Senate, jeopardizing much of Obama's agenda, including health care reform. "He's branded himself brilliantly. He has run as the people's senator," said Jennifer Donahue, a political analyst and contributor to The Huffington Post. Brown, a lieutenant colonial in the Massachusetts National Guard, is well-prepared for life in Washington. As a
The victory by Massachusetts Republican Scott Brown in the U.S. Senate special election to fill the late Sen. Ted Kennedy's seat, observers have noted, will make or break the health care reform bill in Congress.
The voters in Massachusetts sent a message loud and clear. Maybe even a "shot heard around the world." At least the political world. Tuesday night's victory for Scott Brown for the vacant seat held by the late Sen. Ted Kennedy for 46 years was a massive win for disenchanted voters everywhere.
Look no further than the two warning flares shot up from Virginia and New Hampshire Tuesday evening to understand how concerned Democrats are about the political consequences of losing the late Sen. Edward Kennedy's seat to Republican Scott Brown.
For weeks, he was the underdog candidate, running behind in the race for the U.S. Senate in Massachusetts. But today, Republican Scott Brown could deal President Obama his first defeat in the 2010 congressional elections.
On Tuesday, the eyes of the political world will be turned to Massachusetts where an unexpectedly close special election is being held to determine who will succeed Ted Kennedy in the Senate.
Faced with the once-unthinkable prospect of losing the Massachusetts Senate race, Democratic officials on Capitol Hill are quietly talking about options for passing health care reform without that critical 60th Senate vote.
President Obama campaigns for Democratic Senate candidate Martha Coakley.
Dr. Rajiv Shah President Obama announced Wednesday that Shah, the 36-year-old administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, will be in charge of the overall U.S. relief effort in Haiti. "The goal of the relief effort in the first 72 hours will be very focused on saving lives," Shah said.
A contentious special election to fill late Sen. Ted Kennedy's Senate seat could have an effect on the cause he championed -- health care.
The House and Senate will soon begin negotiating a final bill on health care reform. CNN's Brianna Keilar has a preview.
First came naming babies after movie stars. Then there were copycats of celebrity outfits, Academy Award dresses and even nose jobs. Now, the celebrity chase is getting genetic.
The hot water goes cold, the air conditioner goes hot or maybe the washing machine's spin cycle is starting to sound like a Harley-Davidson rally. Alas, your warranty on the appliance in question expired long ago. Suddenly you're faced with a tough, potentially pricey decision: fix the broken item or replace it? Repair would cost less in the short term, but you'd hate to invest in something that could spring another problem soon. These guidelines will help you decide.
Everyone wants to know where to put their money in alternative energy.
The boom in prices for corn, milk, beef and other food products is only getting louder.
Everyone wants to know where to put their money in alternative energy.
So, what would you do if you were elected president?
In the chemistry-challenged specimen of serendipity and romantic fate-tampering called "The Lake House," Kate Forster (Sandra Bullock), a melancholy but pretty Chicago doctor living in 2006, meets her soul mate, Alex Wyler (Keanu Reeves), a melancholy but pretty architect whose only drawback as boyfriend material is that he's living in 2004.
Poor little rich babe, scion of English movie-star royalty, AK-47-toting punkette bounty hunter: If Domino Harvey's life didn't already sound like a chicly garish girl-with-model- cheekbones-goes-slumming thriller, then a girl-with-model-cheekbones- goes-slumming thriller would have to be made to exploit it.
Anyone who has seen the attention-grabbing trailer for "A History of Violence," with its emphasis on images of Viggo Mortensen packing heat, might conclude that the tagline is "Aragorn: No More Mister Nice Guy."
On the face of it, Roman Polanski's "Oliver Twist," with a screenplay by Ronald Harwood, is in the tradition of every faithful "Oliver Twist" ever filmed -- a photogenic, straightforward, CliffsNotes staging of Charles Dickens' harrowing story about a penniless orphan negotiating among cruel and occasionally good adults in a world that has no time for children, and even less for penniless orphans.
What with terrorism anxieties, security snarls, flight cancellations, lost luggage, lost legroom, reduced meal service, and deadly Cinnabon calorie counts, air travel has never been more stressful.
Zombies are, if anything, overrepresented in today's movie marketplace. Yet the spiritual tradition that invented them -- Afro-Caribbean voodoo -- rarely gets the spotlight, serving mostly as a genre backdrop for all-too-familiar stories about good-looking white people in over their heads (e.g., "Angel Heart").
There's no confusing the wizards and goblins who populate the dazzling animated adventure "Howl's Moving Castle" with their relatives from Harry Potter's branch of the wiz biz.
If you're a certain kind of moviegoer -- my kind -- then the announcement that Paul Schrader's prequel to "The Exorcist," was being shelved after it had been fully shot and edited only stoked your desire to see it.
Few could have predicted that Bill Murray, Jim Carrey or Adam Sandler would ever be taken seriously as actors, so hear me out when I say that Will Ferrell, over the next decade, could make a similar transformation.
CNNMoney: Dropping the torchupdated: Wed Aug 25 2004 10:42:00
Though flush with cash, U.S. businesses aren't providing quite the lift to the economy analysts once hoped, meaning the recent so-so pace of the expansion could continue for a while longer.
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