Meredith Lowell, a Cleveland Heights, Ohio animal activist, is being charged with solicitation to commit murder. Lowell told an undervover FBI agent over Facebook that she would pay for someone wearing fur to be murdered outside of a library.

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner today outlined President Obama’s plan to overhaul business taxes, including the elimination of dozens of loopholes and a reduction in the corporate tax rate to 28 percent, which some critics say is not low enough. The proposals also include a minimum tax on foreign earnings, although he provided no details.

In settlement, gold dealer will also change sales practices. By MATTHEW MOSK

OnLive Desktop Plus for iPad During CES 2012, the surprise appearance of OnLive Desktop was an intriguing idea for Windows-lovers: rent a Windows 7 computer remotely, and stream the whole experience to your iPad. Helping the cause for the first iteration of OnLive Desktop was its price: free. That version only had 2GB of cloud [...]

Workers on the iPhone assembly line make $1.78 an hour. (Credit: MacRumors/markm49uk) An unprecedented peek behind the curtain of Foxconn’s factories in China may have revealed new hints to how much it actually costs to make each iPhone. ABC’s “Nightline” was recently given access to the factory floor, and the resulting reporting has provided some [...]

An artist’s rendering of the chip, driven by magnetic currents, in an artery. (Credit: StrongBox3d,Carlos Suarez) As implantable medical devices become smaller and less power hungry, they are taking on a variety of new roles. What began as largely stationary objects, such as pacemakers and cochlear implants, are becoming small enough to actually pass through [...]

PARIS, Feb 23 (Reuters) – French bank Credit Agricole is seen posting a thumping 2.7 billion-euro ($3.58 billion) loss for the fourth quarter on Thursday, hit by recently disclosed writedowns on the…

MILAN, Feb 23 (Reuters) – Salini, an Italian mid-sized construction company that has bought a 20 per cent stake in rival Impregilo SpA, does not rule out a takeover bid in its quest to create an…

TOKYO, Feb 23 (Reuters) – Japan is considering contributing $50 billion to the International Monetary Fund to help it combat the euro zone’s sovereign debt crisis, the Asahi Shimbun reported on…