Polls give Mitt Romney a healthy lead over Newt Gingrich as Nevada holds its Republican presidential;caucus.

U.S. President Barack Obama calls on Syria’s president to step down accusing the regime of murdered hundreds of its own citizens on Friday.

Demonstrators turn out in below-freezing temperatures to protest the prime minister’s bid for another presidential term.

Cisco, Coca-Cola, Disney and Visa are among bellwethers set to report results amid expectations for market gains to continue; resolution of Europe’s debt crisis is expected to drag on.

MSFT - Microsoft Corp., whose Internet-identification service was partly shut down for an hour this morning, is looking into reports that a “limited number” of customers were able to gain access to other users’ accounts. The breach occurred wh...

Harvard Univ. +/- Harvard University's $26B endowment is looking to unload a portion of its $5B real-estate portfolio as it seeks better investment opportunities and to reduce its exposure to the troubled property market. The university's endowment i...

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Commission to Reduce Federal Deficit + President Barack Obama has picked Republican former Senator Alan Simpson and former Clinton administration official Erskine Bowles to lead a commission on reducing the federal deficit. The president plans to sign an executive order creat...

SPG, GGWPQ + Simon Properties Group Inc., already the nation's largest shopping-mall owner, made a $10B bid to acquire rival General Growth Properties Inc., which is seeking to emerge from bankruptcy proceedings, in a takeover effort that could alter...