Amazon's fourth-quarter earnings beat analysts' expectations but missed on revenue. The Internet retail giant turned a profit of $214 million, a stark reversal from last quarter. The big number is 53%, or the increase in paid membership, worldwide, for Amazon Prime
The Senate passed a bill Thursday that would authorize construction of a pipeline linking the Canadian tar sands with Gulf Coast oil refineries
Police quickly traced the source in the Paris attacks but stopping criminals and other jihadist cells from acquiring assault weapons might not be so easy
Richard Sherman said he has not thought about the possibility of skipping the Super Bowl for the birth of his son. Sherman's girlfriend in Arizona, Ashley Moss, is pregnant with their first child and expected to give birth within the next week
Apple’s latest earning report reveals that the company may have finally beat Samsung’s historical advantage of individual smartphone sales. Apple sold a record 74.5 million iPhones last quarter, while Samsung said it sold between 71 and 76 million smartphones
A powerful gas tank truck explosion shattered a maternity and children's hospital in Mexico City on Thursday, killing at least three adults and one baby and injuring dozens. The blast apparently was caused by a leak in the hose carrying gas from the truck to the hospital
Dartmouth President Philip Hanlon said on Thursday that all students, regardless of age, would be banned from consuming and possessing hard alcohol on campus, while warning the college’s fraternities that they would need to reform or disband
The Tibetan leader is set to participate in the National Prayer Breakfast on Feb. 5, and the President is expected to attend. Barack Obama has never appeared publicly with the Dalai Lama, who is viewed by the Chinese government as a dissident
Shares in the Chinese e-commerce giant slumped 10% early Thursday after a quarterly earnings call missed expectations — but more seriously, Chinese regulators accused the company of selling fake goods and misleading customers
Gov. Mike Pence was widely criticized after recently announcing a plan to launch “Just IN,” a website that would include hard news stories written by press secretaries and described in internal memos as competing with other media outlets
Indonesian investigators have concluded that the co-pilot of AirAsia Flight QZ8501 was controlling the plane before it crashed in the Java Sea. The plane, which crashed en route from Surabaya to Singapore on December 28, had 162 people on board
Sixteen people were killed and 39 wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up among mourners gathered for a funeral on Thursday. The funeral was for a police commander and three other people killed earlier in the day in a roadside bombing
It’s harder to be a teen now than it was in 50 years ago—at least according to teenagers. In 1965, we surveyed the nation’s teens. In this week's TIME, we take a new look
