NEW YORK ? Dozens of Occupy Wall Street protesters were arrested Saturday after they scaled a chain-link fence or crawled under it to get to an Episcopal church-owned lot they want to use for a new camp site. Protesters used a wooden ladder to scale the fence or lifted it from below while others cheered [...]

A security guard controls the traffic at a container terminal in Tokyo, Monday, Feb. 13, 2012. Japan’s economy shrank 2.3 percent in the fourth quarter as manufacturers were battered by the strong yen, weak export demand amid the European debt crisis and flooding in Thailand. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi) A security guard controls the traffic at [...]

By msnbc.com news services Wall Street main stock averages were wavering Thursday as fears about rising yields of debt in Europe overshadowed some upbeat news on the U.S. economy. Before the open, a report on new claims for unemployment insurance showed a drop to their lowest level in seven months. Separately, U.S. housing starts fell [...]

The women who find themselves within this room deep inside a Northeast Portland hospital cling to anything offering a bit of hope. Doctors, drugs and treatments play a role. ?But so, too, does a simple story. ?When a woman arrives at Transitions,? a Providence Portland Medical Center program where women deal with cancer’s aftermath, she [...]

MIAMI ? Mitt Romney aggressively criticized rival Newt Gingrich on Tuesday, calling the former House speaker a “lifelong politician” and questioning Gingrich’s ability to fix the country’s struggling economy. Romney, speaking a day after Gingrich criticized him during a campaign stop in South Carolina, told Fox News that Gingrich wasn’t as likely to beat President [...]