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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's message to an annual gathering of central bankers in Jackson Hole, Wyoming was that the Federal Reserve has not exhausted potential cures for what ails the limping U.S. economy and is willing to take new measures to boost growth if needed.
A number of prominent exporting economies around the globe are not too happy at all about the Fed's "easy money" policies.
As central bankers from all over the world gather in Jackson Hole, Wyoming the dark economic clouds that are gathering around the globe has everyone concerned.
Nearly 10 percent of all American homeowners with a mortgage had missed at least one payment this summer, threatening foreclosure, according to data just released by the Mortgage Bankers Association.
23 percent of U.S. homes with mortgages were underwater at the end of June.
Are Barack Obama's socialist policies making the U.S. national debt far worse?
Thousands of people lined up on Friday outside the Palm Beach County Convention Center - some arriving by the busload, hoping the Neighborhood Assistance Corp. of America will help them save their homes.
Japan's prime minister said on Friday that he will take firm measures on currencies when needed and will meet the Bank of Japan governor, increasing the possibility the central bank will ease policy soon as it confronts a surging yen.
Economist Nouriel Roubini, who has gained fame as the "Dr. Doom" of the current downturn, thinks the odds of a double-dip recession have risen to more than 40 percent.
Are there signs that the U.S. economy is already beginning to fall apart?
If Barack Obama needed any more incentive to go all out for Democrats this fall, here it is: Republicans are planning a wave of committee investigations targeting the White House and Democratic allies if they win back the majority.
The U.S. birth rate has dropped for the second year in a row, and experts think the wrenching recession led many people to put off having children.
A series of documents has surfaced that reportedly show that the UN Population Fund, the World Bank and the World Health Organization have been conducting reserach on "anti-fertility vaccines" over the past several decades.
Afghanistan's President, Hamid Karzai, has criticized the US military's plans to begin withdrawing troops from the country in July 2011.
The CIA is making secret payments to multiple members of President Hamid Karzai's administration, in part to maintain sources of information in a government in which the Afghan leader is often seen as having a limited grasp of developments, according to current and former U.S. officials.
A lawsuit filed in U.S. federal district court has disclosed that the Internal Revenue Service was operating a special unit assigned to examine the positions and board members of pro-Israeli non-profit groups. The unit was said to have denied tax-exempt status to at least one organization, called Z Street, on grounds that it opposed Obama's policy toward Israel.
France has expressed willingness to provide the Lebanese army with helicopter missiles as part of a deal which has yet to be signed, the London-based Arabic-language al-Sharq al-Awsat newspaper reported Thursday, quoting an official French source.
Israel is trying to prevent an arms deal between Russia and Syria, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has asked his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, to stop the arms sale involving advanced anti-shipping missiles.
At least two car bombs exploded Friday near the television studios of Televisa in Ciudad Victoria, the capital of Tamaulipas state in northeastern Mexico, the station and the government-run news service reported.
This is how ridiculous things have gotten in America - now the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is considering a crackdown on farm dust.
A worker was paid for 12 years without ever showing up for work at a Norfolk, Virginia, agency funded by federal, state and local money, officials say.
According to the CDC, about three quarters of a million people a year are rushed to emergency rooms in the U.S. because of adverse drug reactions.
Seasonal flu vaccinations across Australia for children under five have been suspended after 23 children in Western Australia were admitted to hospital with convulsions following their injections.
A new study, just presented in Boston at the 240th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, concluded that blueberries, strawberries, and acai berries preserve memory and other mental faculties in a crucial but previously unknown way.
Former President Jimmy Carter has helped free a U.S. Christian who was detained for the past seven months in North Korea.
A Christians-only health care plan provides a "contract for insurance" and doesn't qualify for exemption from state regulations, the Kentucky Supreme Court ruled Thursday in a decision that potentially opens the plan to stricter regulation by the state.
Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of a 3,500-year-old settlement in one of Egypt's desert oases that predates earlier cities by a millennium.
A 60-mile traffic jam near the Chinese capital could last until mid-September, officials say.
Intel scientists are currently mapping out brain activity produced when people think of particular words, and they hope to be able to develop the world's first line of thought-controlled computers.
Hurricane Danielle became a Category 4 storm early Friday far out over the Atlantic as it headed in Bermuda's direction and threatened to bring dangerous rip currents to the U.S. east coast.
As prices for buckwheat and other basic foodstuffs rise sharply in Russia after one of the worst droughts in the country's history, the government has warned that it will clamp down on any merchants trying to capitalize on shortages.
Some astronomers are warning that a massive solar storm, much bigger in potential than the one that caused spectacular light shows on Earth earlier this month, could strike our planet in 2012 with a force of 100 million hydrogen bombs.
Terry James is asking this question: "Are we the last generation of humans as God made them?"
Lastly, a website advertising a new "cannibal" restaurant in Germany that calls for humans to donate body parts for the menu is causing outrage.
