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Fri May 18, 2012 7:32am EDT * Euro lifts off four-month low vs dollar, eyes 2012 low * Broad demand for safe havens supports dollar and yen * Greek politics, Spanish bank problems weigh on sentiment By Anirban Nag LONDON, … Continue reading →

ATLANTA — On the night George Zimmerman fatally shot unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin in Florida, a witness said he saw some of the scuffle — and described a black man in a dark hoodie on top of a white … Continue reading →

(CNN) — Trayvon Martin had drugs in his system when he was fatally shot earlier this year by George Zimmerman in Sanford, Florida, according to autopsy results released Thursday. Martin’s blood contained THC, which is the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana, … Continue reading →

Los Angeles (CNN) — Donna Summer, the “Queen of Disco” whose hits included “Hot Stuff,” “Bad Girls,” “Love to Love You Baby” and “She Works Hard for the Money,” has died, a representative said Thursday. She was 63. There was … Continue reading →

“Mary was a genius at friendship, a tremendously gifted architect and a pioneer and relentless advocate of green design who enhanced her cutting edge, energy efficient creations with exquisite taste and style,” the family said. The former Mary Richardson, a … Continue reading →

Kevin Durant knocked down the game-winning shot with 18 seconds left as the Thunder staged a furious late rally to open up a 2-0 lead in its Western Conference second-round series with the Lakers in a 77-75 win on Wednesday. … Continue reading →

Whatever they may have thought of his politics, anyone fortunate enough to have conversed with author Carlos Fuentes couldn’t help but be taken by his patrician good looks and his love affair with language. Skip to next paragraph Carlos Fuentes: … Continue reading →

Updated: 11:56 a.m. (CBS/AP) GREENSBORO, N.C. –  John Edwards’ defense team rested its case Wednesday after little more than two days of testimony and evidence. Neither Edwards, a former high-profile trial attorney, his daughter Cate, nor his former mistress Rielle … Continue reading →

The trial of former Bosnian-Serb Army Commander General Ratko Mladic has started at a United Nations tribunal in the Hague, 20 years after the Bosnian war began. Prosecutor Dermot Groome said Wednesday the army chief’s goal was to ethnically cleanse … Continue reading →

BY NAFTALI BENDAVID A state senator who had been stuck for weeks in third place in polls has won the GOP nomination for a U.S. Senate seat from Nebraska, continuing a pattern of challengers successfully taking on prominent Republicans in … Continue reading →

MEXICO CITY — The prize-winning writer Carlos Fuentes, modern Mexico’s greatest novelist and indefatigable author of screenplays, stories and often-scolding commentaries, died Tuesday at a hospital in Mexico City. He was 83. The national culture council announced Fuentes’ death. Although … Continue reading →

(CNN) — Mitchell Guist, a star of the reality TV show “Swamp People,” died Monday in Louisiana. He was aboard a boat near Belle River Landing in the southern part of the state when he appeared to have a seizure, … Continue reading →

(CNN) — François Hollande promised a new approach to tackling the financial woes plaguing Europe as he was sworn in as president of France on Tuesday. Hollande becomes France’s first Socialist president since François Mitterrand left office in 1995. He … Continue reading →

By Jeff Mason and Alister Bull WASHINGTON/NEW YORK | Mon May 14, 2012 10:43pm EDT WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – President Barack Obama’s campaign released a video on Monday calling Mitt Romney’s private equity firm a job-killing “vampire” that ran a … Continue reading →

There is no legal provision in European Union treaties for a country to exit the euro zone, putting experts in uncharted waters when trying to assess method and the repercussions. But if Greece were forced to leave after losing financial … Continue reading →

Ina Drew will retire from JPMorgan Chase. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — JPMorgan Chase announced Monday that Ina Drew, the firm’s chief investment officer, has left the bank after revelations of a $2 billion loss sustained over the past six weeks. … Continue reading →

  KATHMANDU, May 14 (Xinhua) — A plane belonging to Agni Air crashed Monday morning in Jomsom in northwestern Nepal, killing 15 while 6 others surviving the crash, Nepal Army confirmed. Reports suggest that the plane crashed after it slammed … Continue reading →

By PALLAVI GOGOI NEW YORK JPMorgan Chase is expected to accept the resignation of one of the highest-ranking women on Wall Street after the bank lost $2 billion in a trading blunder, a person familiar with the matter said Sunday. … Continue reading →

Scott Thompson, now the former CEO of Yahoo NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson is out after it was found he padded his resume with an embellished college degree, ending his term at the company after just four … Continue reading →

KABUL: A senior Afghan peace negotiator has been shot dead in the latest blow to President Hamid Karzai’s peace efforts with the Taliban. Arsala Rahmani was a former Taliban official who had reconciled with the government and was trying to … Continue reading →

LYNCHBURG, Va. – Mitt Romney, needing badly to stir momentum among skeptical evangelical Christians vital to his presidential hopes, told a polite audience Saturday at Liberty University, an influential Christian school, that he shares and deeply respects their values. “People … Continue reading →

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By Sam Youngman LYNCHBURG, Virginia | Sat May 12, 2012 3:51pm EDT LYNCHBURG, Virginia (Reuters) – Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney sought on Saturday to calm fears that his Mormon faith would be an obstacle to evangelical Christian voters, stressing … Continue reading →

The interview came as senior executives at JP Morgan were given repeated warnings about the controversial unit responsible for a shock $2bn trading loss at the bank, it can be disclosed.

WASHINGTON — JPMorgan Chase faced intense criticism Friday for claiming that a surprise $2-billion loss by one of its trading groups was the result of a sloppy but well-intentioned strategy to manage financial risk. More than three years after the … Continue reading →

Matt Sayles / AP Jennifer Hudson A Chicago jury on Friday convicted Oscar-winner Jennifer Hudson’s former brother-in-law of murdering her mother, brother and 7-year-old nephew in what prosecutors’ described as an act of vengeance by a jilted husband. Hudson, who … Continue reading →

By Dave Clarke WASHINGTON | Fri May 11, 2012 1:08pm EDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Wall Street may have lost its most potent spokesman against Washington reforms. JPMorgan Chase Co Chief Executive Jamie Dimon has parlayed his bank’s reputation as a … Continue reading →

JP Morgan Chase Co. is rocking the financial markets with the disclosure that its in-house trading operating lost $2 billion in the past six weeks, raising new questions about whether the big banks that caused the financial meltdown have sufficiently … Continue reading →

JPMorgan Chase, the largest bank in the United States, said Thursday that it lost $2 billion in the past six weeks in a trading portfolio designed to hedge against risks the company takes with its own money. Skip to next … Continue reading →

JPMorgan Chase, the largest bank in the United States, said Thursday that it lost $2 billion in the past six weeks in a trading portfolio designed to hedge against risks the company takes with its own money. Skip to next … Continue reading →

President Barack Obama’s embrace of same-sex marriage was viewed for so long as such a risky move that operatives in both parties expected it to drop like a bomb, handing Republicans a powerful wedge issue in an election year. Instead, … Continue reading →

One day after President Barack Obama announced his support for gay marriage, former Virginia Republican Rep. Tom Davis said that while the GOP’s opposition to gay marriage may not hurt them now, it’s “not a comfortable place” for the party … Continue reading →

President Obama has abandoned his longstanding opposition to same-sex marriage but says the decision on whether or not to legalize the unions should be left up to individual states, which are “arriving at different conclusions at different times.” “I think … Continue reading →

President Obama’s endorsement of gay marriage on Wednesday was by any measure a watershed. A sitting United States president took sides in what many people consider the last civil rights movement, providing the most powerful evidence to date of how … Continue reading →

WASHINGTON — President Obama’s endorsement of gay marriage is an election-year boost to his liberal base that comes with some risks. Obama, after all, had good reasons to resist this shift up to now. Those had everything to do with … Continue reading →

By Anna Malpas (AFP) – 5 hours ago  MOSCOW — The Sukhoi Superjet 100, the Russian jet which has gone missing in Indonesia, is a brand new passenger plane built by Russia in a bid to lift its civil aviation … Continue reading →

(CNN) — A day after North Carolina became the latest state to approve a constitutional amendment defining marriage as solely between a man and a woman, opponents of the referendum begin their battle Wednesday to overturn it. North Carolina voted … Continue reading →

By Mark Hosenball and Tabassum Zakaria WASHINGTON | Tue May 8, 2012 11:45pm EDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The would-be suicide bomber in a plot by al Qaeda’s Yemeni affiliate was planted in the group by an allied intelligence agency or … Continue reading →

By Susan Heavey WASHINGTON | Tue May 8, 2012 4:57pm EDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Elbot Carman, a 25-year-old aspiring graphic designer, made so little money after earning his master’s degree last year that the U.S. government now says he can … Continue reading →

Maurice Sendak, the children’s book illustrator and author whose unsentimental approach to storytelling revolutionized the genre and whose best-known tale was the dark fantasy “Where the Wild Things Are,” has died. He was 83. Sendak, who also was a set … Continue reading →