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Police disperse crowd near Westlake site where officer shot a day laborer to death. At least 22 people are arrested. As Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck defended the fatal shooting of a day laborer and officials called for calm, protesters and officers clashed Tuesday night in Westlake near the site of the incident.

Charlie Crist and Kendrick Meek are part of a close three way race for Senate in Florida. (CNN) - A new poll indicates that the three way-battle for Florida's open Senate seat, arguably the most fascinating Senate contest this year,...

Intel's Paul Otellini says the chip maker is making selective acquisitions as it looks beyond PCs.

BP released its report into the oil spill which followed the Deepwater Horizon explosion in the Gulf of Mexico 11.50am: BP's report into the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, and subsequent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is pu...

In the wake of speculation that White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel could step down from his post to run for Mayor of Chicago, Politico reports that according to Democratic insiders, Deputy National Security Adviser Tom Donilon is t...

I just hot hit up by a top-notch tipster that T-Mobile’s G2 is headed to consumers for pre-sale later this month . The handset, powered by stock Android 2.2 and a Snapdragon MSM7230 CPU clocked at exactly 800Mhz, has a 3.7-inch screen, s...

And accurately describes the eventual outcome. I’ll give AFL-CIO chief Richard Trumka decent marks for accuracy, if not imagery, in this clip from a speech given in the bright afterglow of the passage of ObamaCare in April of this year...

• Ex-NoW journalist says Andy Coulson 'must have known' • Speaker paves way for second committee to investigate • Poll finds 52% think PM's communications chief must go A senior former News of the World journalist goes public to corroborate cla...

White House senior adviser David Axelrod hinted strongly Wednesday that White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel is weighing a bid for Chicago's open mayoral Read more...

An angry crowd greeted LAPD Chief Charlie Beck with boos, whistles and chants of "Justicia!" Wednesday night at a meeting after a fatal police shooting of an immigrant.

Barclays Capital hired former CIT Group Chairman Jeffrey Peek as vice chairman of its investment-banking division.

AP Obama and Emanuel walk on the South Lawn before the president's flight to Chicago, Aug. 4, 2010. Will Rahm Emanuel run for Chicago mayor?... The timing for a key staff departure -- right now -- isn’t ideal for the White House&hellip...

Founder of European newspaper group says he will leave in January, after news breaks of shareholder pressure for change David Montgomery, chief executive of the pan-European newspaper group Mecom, has bowed to shareholder pressure to leave the c...

Former Cheney chief of staff Scooter Libby, who was found guilty in 2007 on four charges of essentially lying about his role in the campaign to disclose the identity of covert CIA agent Valerie Plame, appeared on Fox News last night for a typical...

BATAVIA, Ohio (AdAge.com) -- Walmart's sustainability czar is moving to a new role working on local marketing initiatives, and the executive who headed last year's restage of the Great Value private-label brand will step in to take charge of sustainability for the nation's biggest retailer.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - EADS Chief Executive Louis Gallois said EADS is in talks with a few companies in defense, services and security areas for potential deals and could comfortably make an acquisition of around 1 billion euros.

Back in March, Brandon Holley spoke with The New York Times about how "her new life as a digital women’s-service journalist is much less glamorous than her old one at Condé Nast’s glossy dream factory," where she was the edi...

Now that Apple has formally let Google’s AdMob into its iPhone/iPod/iPad platform , Google has posted a thank-you note, via a blog post from AdMob chief Omar Hamoui. The truth is, Apple (AAPL) has been more or less ignoring its AdMob ban ...

LONDON, Sept 9 (Reuters) - Veteran British newspaper executive David Montgomery is being forced out as chief executive of Mecom after pressure from shareholders fed up with ongoing high debt levels and falling sales.

Around the United States, city governments have created a multitude of software. Unfortunately, most of the time the code from those projects is not shared between municipalities, which results in duplication of effort and redundant, static softwa...