Scottrade: $7 Online Trades. Real-Time Stock Quotes China Automotive Systems Inc. (NASDAQ:CAAS) reported its results for the third quarter. China Automotive Systems is a holding company that, through joint ventures in China and a wholly-owned subsidiary, manufactures power steering systems and other component parts for automobiles. Investing Insights: Here?s Why Chipotle?s Stock Keeps Winning. [...]

WASHINGTON ? The House on Tuesday passed two bills endorsing the use of religious symbols at military memorials. One writes into law the propriety of displaying religious markers at war memorials while the other orders that the Interior Department add to the World War II Memorial in Washington a plaque with Franklin Roosevelt’s prayer to [...]

? How corrupt is New York City (and the nation)? ?Mr. Bloomberg?s demarche, which was signaled in the budget earlier this year, has been little-remarked-upon. In the large scheme of things it is a modest test. Yet it contrasts sharply with the mayor?s generally welcoming stance toward immigrants. In 2007, the mayor denounced Governor Romney [...]

No points for calling this one, but it looks like Android 4.0 is well on its way to the Nook Tablet — in a decidedly unofficial manner, of course. Just a few days after the tablet’s bootloader was bypassed, developer Brandon Bennet (aka Nemith) has now apparently managed to get an early version of the [...]

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) ? A suicide car bomber killed a district governor, his two young sons and two bodyguards in Afghanistan’s southern Kandahar province on Thursday, officials said, an area where NATO-led forces have claimed security improvements over the past year. The blast targeted the governor of Panjwai district, Sayed Fazluddin Agha, as he was [...]