NEW YORK (MarketWatch) - I was just starting to work on a column about silver mania Tuesday morning when a big, beautifully produced ad insert on silver, of all things, arrived with my Financial Times.

LAS VEGAS - Donald Trump, dressed in his uniform of a navy blue suit and pale pink tie, paused in the middle of a casino floor here to crow.

NEW YORK -- After being hyped as an unpredictable draft, Thursday's first round did not disappoint. After passing on Blaine Gabbert and taking Aldon Smith instead, Clifton Brown says the 49ers better hope Gabbert doesn't become a superstar.

The bearded upbeat eclectic singer who played guitar was voted off, leaving Lauren Alaina, James Durbin, Jacob Lusk, Scotty McCreery and Haley Reinhart to battle for the Idol title.

Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)'s Windows sales slumped last quarter as the iPad crimped demand for consumer laptops, marking the first time in 20 years that the software maker reported a smaller quarterly profit than ...

About 200 people have resigned from the ruling Baath Party in two days to protest the government's violence; reports continue of dissent among the armed forces.

The first-quarter GDP slowdown was caused mostly by temporary factors such as oil prices and weather, but the weekly unemployment figure - though volatile - was an unwelcome surprise, economists say.

Los Angeles Lakers' Kobe Bryant (L) shoots over New Orleans Hornets' Emeka Okafor during Game 6 of their NBA Western Conference first round playoff basketball game in New Orleans, Louisiana April 28, 2011.

Vertex Pharmaceuticals yesterday got the votes it needed for its potential blockbuster hepatitis C drug. A panel of federal health experts gave its unanimous endorsement of the Cambridge firm after reviewing the safety ...

The NFL's draft night included Commissioner Roger Goodell with a stage full of potential draftees at Radio City Music Hall. The draft will run three days.

An expensive eye injection that's approved to treat macular degeneration - the most common cause of age-related blindness - works no better than a much cheaper drug at preventing vision loss.

More than 77 million Sony PlayStation costumers are at the risk of identity fraud, with the theft of users' personal information, possibly including credit card details.

Wisconsin defensive end JJ Watt was selected by the Houston Texans with the 11th overall pick. By Jeff Potrykus of the Journal Sentinel How do you feel about the Packers picking Derek Sherrod?

Apple's white iPhone 4 could change the short-term makeup of the smartphone marketplace, and allow Apple to hold its own against Google Android's device family.

Miami's LeBron James leads his team onto the court against the Boston Celtics earlier this season. The Heat were 1-3 in four regular-season games against their conference rival.

April 29 (Bloomberg) -- Two Android phone users sued Google Inc. over claims their phones secretly recorded and stored data about their movements.

Tens of thousands of Berkshire Hathaway shareholders are descending on Omaha for the conglomerate's annual meeting, known as "The Woodstock for Capitalism.

Elaborate and excessive to the extreme, the fifth film in “The Fast and the Furious” franchise mashes up the physics-defying street-racing action of its predecessors with a daring heist scheme and casts Dwayne Johnson as a foil to Vin Diesel's antihero ...