Cigarette Smuggling Ring Busted, May Have Helped Fund Terrorism

(NEW YORK) -- Authorities in New York say they have broken up a cigarette trafficking ring that may have helped fund terrorism. What authorities dubbed Operation Tobacco Road involved ci... Read More

Google Plus Tackles Photos in Social Network Fight

(SAN FRANCISCO) -- Google isn't done trying to take on the behemoth social networks. That was the message from Google's Senior Vice President of Engineering Vic Gundorta at the Google I/O conferenc... Read More

Ohio Man Receives $10K for Downloading Apple's 50 Billionth App

(NEW YORK) -- Brandon Ashmore from Mentor, Ohio, hit the app jackpot Tuesday afternoon when he pressed the download button on a word game app called Say the Same Thing and sent Apple over the 50 bi... Read More

College Class of 2013 Racks Up Debt of $35,200

(NEW YORK) -- The brutal rise in college costs over the past decade is leading students to take on an unprecedented amount of debt. Indeed, the class of 2013 is graduating with debt that aver... Read More

Weekly Jobless Claims Jump to 360,000

(WASHINGTON) -- After falling to a five-year low in the beginning of the month, jobless claims have shot back up, the Labor Department reported Thursday morning. For the week ending May... Read More

Subaru Forester Scores Top Rating in New Crash Test

(NEW YORK) -- For the first time, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) has conducted crash tes... Read More

Boxing and Floyd Mayweather: Perfect Storm for Highest-Paid Athlete

(NEW YORK) -- The highest-paid U.S. athlete is not endorsed by Nike, nor does he own a clothing line. Boxing champion Floyd Mayweather, Jr. was named the highest-paid U.S. athlete for th... Read More

More than Half of Mobile Device Owners Use Them to Play Games

(NEW YORK) -- Mobile devices obviously help people keep in touch, but they are more and more becoming a popular source of entertainment. A new survey conducted by Harris Interactive on beh... Read More

Coffee Date with Tim Cook Goes for $610K in Charity Auction

(NEW YORK) -- A 30-minute- to- one-hour coffee date with Apple CEO Tim Cook was auctioned for $610,000 on Charitybuzz, tying the record for the highest winning bid on that website, which previously... Read More

Google Plans to Bring Hangouts App and More Social Features to Glass

(SAN FRANCISCO) -- During a three-hour keynote at its Google I/O conference, Google didn’t talk at all about Glass, its glasses that overlay digital information in the physical world.... Read More