WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A new national poll indicates that nearly three out of four Americans are scared about the way things are going in the country today. A deputy oversees an eviction in Lafayette, Colorado, last week. Seventy-three percent...
CNN) -- Years from now it may be a trivia question on "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire." Dev Patel and Freida Pinto star in "Slumdog Millionaire," which won eight Oscars, including best picture. “What 2008 film based around a well-know...
WILLIAMSBURG, Virginia (CNN) -- President Barack Obama said Thursday that "the scale and the scope" of his economic plan is right, turning up the heat on critics he said were hawking "phony arguments" and "false theories of the past" to chip a...
STATEN ISLAND, New York (CNN) -- Maybe Wall Street bankers can learn a thing or two from the Humpherys. Eleven-year-old Brianna shows off the fruits of her money-search labors. the Staten Island family of four is a reminder that "e...
CNN) -- The U.S. government has dropped charges against Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, the suspect in the bombing of the destroyer USS Cole, according to a Pentagon spokesman. Parents and friends at the funeral in 2000 for a sailor killed during t...
NEW YORK (CNN) -- Harry Markopolos, the fraud investigator whose efforts to blow the whistle on investment adviser Bernard Madoff were rebuffed by the Securities and Exchange Commission, Thursday presented the SEC's inspector general with evidence...
(CNN) -- Olympic hero Michael Phelps was suspended from competitive swimming for three months on Thursday -- just hours after one of his sponsors announced it would not renew his contract after a photo surfaced of him smoking from a bong....
President-elect wants to computerize the nation's health care records in five years. But the plan comes with a hefty price tag, and specialized labor is scarce. NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- President-elect Barack Obama, as part of the effort to reviv...
