Just as with the January 12th earthquake which devastated Haiti, numerous organizations are taking donations via SMS in the wake of Saturday’s massive magnitude 8.8 earthquake in Chile.

Reuters – Payrolls could give the U.S. stock market some direction this week as investors comb through the key report on one of the economy’s weakest areas.

There are new developments in the case against the man the Secret Service said threatened the life of President Barack Obama in his poetry.

AFP – Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said Saturday he hoped 2010 would not be “an unpeaceful year” for trade and economic relations with the United States, in an online Internet forum.

The Senate failed late Thursday to extend programs for laid-off workers, jeopardizing unemployment benefits scheduled to expire over the weekend.

AP – Don’t count on the economic growth spurt at the end of 2009 to carry into this year.

The system Congress and the Obama administration want employers to use to help curb illegal immigration is failing to catch more than half the number of unauthorized workers it checks, a research company has found.The online tool E-Verify, now used voluntarily by employers, wrongly clears illegal workers about 54 percent of the time, according to …

AP – Oil prices slipped below $80 a barrel Thursday as a stronger dollar made crude more expensive for international investors and the market received mixed signals on the strength of the U.S. economy.