NEW YORK—. The selloff in global oil markets showed little signs of slowing in the new year, falling as much as 6 percent on Monday to their lowest since spring 2009, as fears of a supply glut that vexed the market for the past six months deepened.
WASHINGTON White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest would not say Monday whether Rep. Steve Scalise should give up his leadership spot for speaking to a white supremacist group in 2002, but he did say that if the House allows him to remain majority ...
The man charged with the terror attack near the finish line of the 2013 Boston Marathon went on trial Monday in a federal courthouse less than two miles from where two bombs, concealed in backpacks, exploded with devastating force.
Bess Myerson, the former beauty queen, television personality and New York politician who spent four decades in the public eye before her glamorous image was tarnished by scandal, has died.
Her final words to her attorney, James J. Leonard Jr., when he delivered the 42-year-old mother of four to the Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, Connecticut, at 3 a.m.
The sheer scale of the alleged cover-up of under-age sex crimes by Prince Andrew's paedophile friend can be revealed today. Jeffrey Epstein made extraordinary efforts to stop the young girls he abused from speaking to the FBI, court papers claim.
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MOSCOW - Western nations should stop threatening Russia with new sanctions and instead offer to ease off on existing restrictions in exchange for progress in the peace process in Ukraine, President François Hollande of France said in an interview on ...
Mourners lined up Monday to pay their respects to the late Mario Cuomo, the three-term governor of New York who built a political career on his eloquent advocacy for the common man.
Mayor de Blasio gave the cops who turned their backs on him a good smack Monday. Speaking for the first time about the public dissing he endured at the funerals of hero cops Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu, de Blasio said “they were disrespectful to the ...
Trader Edward Curran works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Monday, Jan. 5, 2015. US stocks opened lower Monday, led by declines in energy stocks as the price of oil plunged again.
With gas prices falling for more than 100 days in a row through late 2014 and the first few days of 2015, Praba Kesavan, co-owner of a Gulf station in Deptford, stood by as a mechanic worked on the station's pumps.
Boston sued the Massachusetts state gambling regulator to block a planned Wynn Resorts Ltd. (WYNN:US) casino near the city, arguing residents should get to vote on the $1.6 billion project because they will bear the brunt of the environmental impact and ...
Frances Moschou, who supported Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras in national elections in 2012, may now represent a bad omen for him as he fights for political survival.
Actors Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively welcomed their first child in December, PEOPLE has learned. Although born early near the couple's home in Bedford, New York, the baby - whose sex has not been revealed - is now doing well and is healthy.
The couple has only been dating for about seven months, but it sounds like they're tying the knot tonight in Los Angeles. Get all of the details below!
Keshia Knight Pulliam, who played youngest child Rudy Huxtable on "The Cosby Show," Monday spoke for the first time publicly about the sexual-abuse allegations surrounding her onscreen father, Bill Cosby.
The Detroit Lions were hosed. Take nothing away from the Dallas Cowboys, Tony Romo, and lifelong fan Chris Christie's wild card victory, but Detroit has every reason to feel cheated this morning.
The daughter of Lakers general manager Mitch Kupchak, Alina Claire Kupchak, died Monday morning at the age of 15 after a lengthy bout with an undisclosed illness.
For more than 50 years, rockets have been launching into space. On Tuesday, for the first time one will attempt to land as well. Play Video · Could SpaceX Save the Dreamliner?
Infographic: Dragon, Reusable Rockets And Other 2014 SpaceX Milestones SpaceX has a big year ahead of it. The company not only plans to launch more Dragon cargo spacecraft to the International Space… Station, but it will also work on developing a human-rated version that could one day do the same for astronauts. Meanwhile, it has a unique idea to land a rocket stage on an ocean platform. While the Hawthorne, Calif.-based firm has drawn criticis...
Scientists are hoping the fountain of youth might be hidden inside a whale species that can live up to 200 years. Joao Pedro de Magalhaes and his team at the University of Liverpool sequenced the genome of the bowhead whale, the longest living mammal ...
DENVER - Colorado is launching a major campaign to educate residents and tourists alike on how to responsibly use marijuana. The $5.7 million "Good to Know" campaign begins hitting airwaves, newspapers and the Internet this month, a year after the ...
