President Barack Obama said that he will be open to direct talks between Iran and the United States but only if the Muslim country is serious about getting rid of its nuclear weapons program, the White House said on Thursday.
While deemed as one of the greatest American novels written since World War II, Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man" has been banned from school libraries in Randolph County, North Carolina. The novl has long been seen as a seminal work of fiction, which deals with the honest realities of race in America.
Ty Warner, the owner and founder of Ty Inc, and creator of Beanie Babies, is set to plead guilty to tax evasion after hiding millions of dollars in a secret Swiss bank account, the Justice Department announced on Wednesday.
Hiroshi Yamauchi, the man who ran the primier Kyoto-based Nintendo Co. franchise, and was once ranked Japan's richest man, has died at age 85,
