Michael Dell may face competition over his bid to take the computer maker he founded private in a $24.4 billion deal. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that buyout specialist Blackstone Group and activist investor ... Read more
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says President Barack Obama will likely release his federal budget outline the week of April 8. That's more than two months late. Under the law, the president is supposed to ... Read more
VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican says the conclave to elect a new pope will likely start in the first few days of next week. The Rev. Federico Lombardi told reporters that cardinals will vote Friday afternoon on ... Read more
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A slow ballot count in Kenya's presidential vote raised questions Tuesday about the election process, but it was a decision on the more than 325,000 rejected ballots that made it appear ... Read more
PARIS (AP) — France's top military officer said Monday it was "probable" that Abou Zeid, an al-Qaida leader in North Africa, was killed in military operations by French and Chadian forces in northern Mali. In ... Read more
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Las Vegas Sands Corp. says in a regulatory filing that it probably violated a federal law that prohibits bribing foreign officials. The casino company said in a filing Friday that the Securities ... Read more
WASHINGTON (AP) — The weakest quarter for the U.S. economy in nearly two years may end up being a temporary lull. Economists think growth has begun to pick up on the strength of a sustained housing recovery and ... Read more
President Barack Obama is waiting until after deep automatic spending cuts actually kick in before meeting with congressional leaders to search for ways out of the nation's latest fiscal crunch. The timing says a lot ... Read more
WASHINGTON (AP) — The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee announced plans Monday for his panel to start voting later this week on an assault weapons ban and other gun curbs, but that session is widely ... Read more
BRUSSELS (AP) — Gen. Philip M. Breedlove, the top U.S. Air Force commander in Europe, is the likely choice to become commander of all U.S. and NATO forces in Europe, a senior NATO official said Thursday. The job ... Read more