Several large U.S. banks have set aside extra money to pay for potential legal costs in part because of JPMorgan Chase…

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has abandoned his effort to obtain damages from Bank of America Corp over …

The initial reads on earnings have been mixed, and yet U.S. stocks are hovering near all-time highs. Next week, inves…

China's home prices continued to surge in December, though the pace of gains overall did not exceed the previous m…

In early 2011, Morgan Stanley Chief Executive James Gorman thought he had finally figured out how to rebuild the bank&…

Spinning off the clean-up project at Japan's wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant from the rest of operator Tokyo Elect…

Vattenfall unplugged! With flyers, posters and an animated film of a bear disconnecting the Swedish utility that opera…

Elsa Schiaparelli, doyenne of 1930s Paris fashion, may be long gone - buried in her favorite hue of shocking pink - bu…

In a letter to his college friend, a young J.D. Salinger writes about yearning for fame. In ensuing correspondence to …

Booker Prize-winning author Roddy Doyle, creator of some of Ireland's most renowned characters, will tackle one th…

Spacewalking Russian cosmonauts on Friday spent over eight hours installing two cameras outside the International Spac…

Russia successfully launched an upgraded version of its Soviet-design Soyuz rocket on Saturday, the Defence Ministry …

Scientists seeking a cure for AIDS say they have been inspired, not crushed, by a major setback in which two HIV posit…

A mission to put humans on Mars that drew 200,000 applicants has selected more than a thousand candidates who will now…

A Space Exploration Technologies' Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on …

The Obama administration wants to keep the International Space Station, a $100 billion orbital research outpost that i…

An unmanned Orbital Sciences Corp. Antares rocket blasted off on Thursday to deliver the first of eight cargo ships to…

Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo, a six-passenger, two-pilot spacecraft aiming to make the world's first commerc…

Officials from 32 of the world's space-faring nations concluded a trio of summits on Friday to tackle expanding pa…

The United States and Canada have signed an agreement to share data on orbiting space debris, asteroids and other haza…

Orbital Sciences Corp, one of two companies hired by U.S. space agency NASA to make supply runs to the International S…

Australian scientists are gluing tiny sensors onto thousands of honey bees to track their movements in a trial aimed a…

China has flight-tested a hypersonic missile delivery vehicle in a move that was scientific in nature and not targete…

President Barack Obama on Wednesday announced a new public-private manufacturing hub in North Carolina during his visi…

The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a $1.1 trillion spending bill on Wednesday that quashes the …

U.S. President Barack Obama nominated Maria Contreras-Sweet on Wednesday to lead the Small Business Administration, an…

Earmarks may be a thing of the past for Congress, but lawmakers still tout their ability to deliver the bacon through …