Split Verdict In Huge Somali Sex Trafficking Case
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- A Tennessee federal jury split its verdict Friday against nine people accused of operating a sex trafficking ring across three sta...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- A Tennessee federal jury split its verdict Friday against nine people accused of operating a sex trafficking ring across three sta...
Dr. Peggy Drexler | Posted 01.16.2012
Regardless of where you fall on the scale of feminist ideology -- great progress to stubborn inequality -- in the arena of women and work, big shifts are afoot. The direction is clear. The destination is not. But by all indications, work and families have some adjustments ahead.
AP | DAVID ESPO | Posted 01.14.2012
WASHINGTON — Sidestepping controversy, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., declined to take sides Monday on a proposal for higher tax reve...
AP | By LARRY LAGE | Posted 12.23.2011
DETROIT -- The Falcons might've found their groove in Motown. Matt Ryan ran and threw for touchdowns to give Atlanta a double-digit lead in the first ...
AP | Posted 11.19.2011
OAKLAND, Calif. -- The AL Central title clinched for the Detroit Tigers, Justin Verlander has a goal – and it has nothing to do with the AL Cy Y...
Robert Greenwald and Derrick Crowe | Posted 11.02.2011
The U.S. spends 59 percent of its discretionary budget on "defense," or $726 billion. If the deficit commission wants to cut the budget in a way that creates jobs, they should start at the Pentagon.
AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 08.20.2011
DAKSHINKALI, Nepal (AP) - A lawyer and a college professor from the United States celebrated Nepal's first public lesbian wedding ceremony Monday in t...
HuffingtonPost.com | Will Guzzardi | Posted 08.16.2011
In a move that exemplified Rahm Emanuel's approach to Chicago's most intractable problems, the city's new mayor sat down on Wednesday with the leaders...
Jerry Capeci | Posted 05.25.2011
Lewis Kasman -- remember him? -- says he saved my life so I shouldn't write bad things about him. For all I know, he may be right.
Bloomberg | Whitney Kisling and Lynn Thomasson | Posted 05.25.2011
Record earnings fueled by the highest profit margins since 1993 are giving executives more leeway than ever to boost dividends as the bull market ente...
AP | PAN PYLAS | Posted 05.25.2011
LONDON — Greece launched a tirade against U.S. credit ratings agencies Monday after Moody's downgraded its debt grade further below junk status,...
AP | DAVID K. RANDALL | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW YORK — The Nasdaq finished within 25 points of its highest level in a decade Friday, reminding investors of a time many would rather forget: The...
Bloomberg | Jody Shenn | Posted 05.25.2011
he quality of commercial mortgages being packaged into bonds is declining as sales in that market soar, a Standard & Poor's analyst said at a securiti...
AP | SHAWN POGATCHNIK | Posted 05.25.2011
DUBLIN — Ratings agency Standard & Poor's cut its credit grade for Ireland on Wednesday and warned it could fall further because of doubts about the...
AP | ALEX VEIGA and CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER | Posted 05.25.2011
A second wave of falling home prices is battering some cities that had escaped the worst of the housing market bust. Prices in Seattle, Charlotte, N....
Posted 05.25.2011
By Lauren Markoe Religion News Service (RNS) Debbie Friedman, a composer and singer whose modern melodies updated the music in synagogue services wor...
24/7 Wall St. | Posted 07.14.2011
Wall Street analysts often believe that they know how much money large public companies will make before the companies actually post quarterly and ann...
AP | MARK JEWELL | Posted 05.25.2011
BOSTON — It appears investors are beginning to get comfortable with risk again. Not only are they pulling money out of bond mutual funds at the ...
politico.com | JOHN MAGGS | | Posted 05.25.2011
Profits have surged 62 percent from the start of 2009 to mid-2010, according to the Commerce Department. That is faster than any other year and a half...
AP | SHAWN POGATCHNIK | Posted 05.25.2011
DUBLIN — Moody's slashed Ireland's credit rating five notches on Friday and warned of further downgrades if the country cannot regain command of...
bloomberg.com | Alexis Xydias and Whitney Kisling | Posted 05.25.2011
The benchmark gauge for American equities will rise 11 percent from last week's close to 1,379 in 2011, bringing the increase since 2008 to 53 percent...
Bloomberg | Craig Torres and Anthony Feld | Posted 05.25.2011
Companies slashed 8.5 million jobs during the worst recession since the Great Depression, while also slowing capital investment plans. Campbell, the w...
AP | MARCY GORDON | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — Federal regulators have taken a first step toward eliminating the use of credit ratings in rules for banks, under a mandate of the ...
Leon T. Hadar | Posted 05.25.2011
Scholars have long debated the direction that the "paradigm shift" in international relations would take. What would replace the obsolete bipolar international system and the strategic and ideological forces that had driven it?
Rick Tumlinson | Posted 05.25.2011
In the battle for the Frontier, the stakes are whether the United States will lead the world into space or relinquish itself to second world status by repeating the failed policies of the past.
AP | KRISTIN M. HALL | Posted 05.05.2012