Search results for

At a time when retailers like Gap are shrinking, a trendy Japanese fashion retailer has opened a flagship location in New York and plans to keep expanding in the U.S. Customers are drawn to Uniqlo's affordable, colorful clothes at a time when they're reluctant to spend.

As the nation's student-loan debt climbs toward $1 trillion, many students face 20-year repayment plans. The average debt is $24,000, but some owe far more and say this burden influences life decisions, from buying a house to whether to have children.

President Obama is sending 100 troops to Uganda. It's a tiny operation, but has become quite common for the U.S. military, and may be used even more often in the coming years.

In China, an "outpouring of grief" meets news that a toddler has died after being struck by two vans in the city of Foshan. The story became a sensation after a security camera's video revealed that more than a dozen passers-by had ignored the injured Wang Yue, 2, as she lay in the street.

As European leaders meet to decide on a plan to help struggling member nations, they might be helped by some two-century-old advice from America's first Treasury secretary. Alexander Hamilton insisted that paying off Revolutionary War debts would lead to economic greatness.

Unemployment rates across America didn't change much in September, says the Labor Department. But among the mostly small shifts that occurred, 25 states reported decreases in their unemployment rate. North Dakota and Nevada had the lowest unemployment rates in the nation, at 3.5 and 4.3 percent.

Melancholia, Take Shelter and other recent films about characters fighting delusion or depression highlight the way filmmakers keep audiences guessing — and keep movies interesting — with fractured narrative and stylized visuals.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in Pakistan to urge the country's leadership to eliminate safe havens for terrorists, says that U.S. officials met with the Haqqani network this summer. She did not say who the participants were, or what was discussed.

Earlier this year, Texas prisons also nixed final meal requests for death row inmates. Texas prisoners now receive two meals a day on weekends.

The Oakland minister who predicted the end of the world would take place on Friday, Oct. 21, was confronted by the continuation of the world instead. It marks the second time the ministry led by Harold Camping, 90, has settled on a doomsday date, only to have it tick by in quotidian fashion.