Weight Watchers may be about shedding those pounds, but it was a stunning gain -- in stock price -- that had the company in the news early this week, and the hoopla was all thanks to talk-show star Oprah Winfrey.
On Monday in Vienna, Iran's nuclear deal with the U.States, Russia, China, Britain, Germany and France moved forward as talks were finally cemented to an agreement that needed sanctions relief will be given when Iran limits its nuclear programs.
A Florida-based healthcare company is under fire after posting a racist help wanted advertisement in a local New York newspaper that stated "no Haitians" need apply.
As the son of Cuban immigrants, Marco Rubio is one of the most prominent Hispanics in the United States and might be expected to receive the Latino community's unequivocal support for his 2016 White House bid. But in reality, the bilingual Florida senator's ability to woo that key demographic may not at all be a given.
A coalition of Latino advocacy groups wants NBC to disinvite Donald Trump from the network's long-running "Saturday Night Live" late-night program, where the GOP presidential front-runner is set to appear on Nov. 7.
A federal judge has blocked Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal's order to defund Planned Parenthood and ruled that the state must continue to provide funding to the women's reproductive health clinics for 2 more weeks while Jindal's legal battle over funding ensues.
The feud between Republican presidential rivals Donald Trump and Jeb Bush is growing increasingly personal, even though the real estate mogul and primary front-runner insisted that he did not mean to blame Bush's brother for the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.
On Sunday, passengers aboard a Southwest Airlines flight heading to San Francisco had to turn around and return to Los Angeles due to an altercation between two passengers on board.
U.S. Rep. Luis Guitierrez, D-Ill., endorsed Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wisc., for House Speaker, while the two politicians have come together in their fight for immigration reform.
With Latinos representing 30.5 percent of Arizona's population, U.S. Sen. John McCain has amped his Latino outreach efforts as he prepares his 2016 reelection process.
MIT researchers have developed a data-crunching system that may one day replace human intuition.
According to Nature Word Report, the system locates predictive patterns hidden in unfamiliar data sets in a fraction of the time it would a human being to accomplish the same task.
After several tweaks were suggested regarding the format for the upcoming Republican debates CNBC, the Republican National Committee and the GOP presidential campaigns, have all agreed upon the criteria for the Oct. 28 primary debate.
