BOSTON – In an effort to boost the level of data security on portable computers, cell phones and other gadgets, IBM Corp. (IBM) is unveiling a method for injecting encryption capabilities into the heart of the machines’ circuitry. There are multiple ways to achieve encryption, the mathematical art of encoding …

SAN FRANCISCO – Among the companies whose shares are expected to see active trade in Wednesday’s session are Genentech Inc., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Gannett Co. and Harley-Davidson Inc. • Click here to visit FOXBusiness.com’s Investing page. Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) is expected to post a first-quarter per-share profit …

PAWTUCKET, R.I. – U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy was hit in the face with a hammer when an entrepreneur, demonstrating shock absorption, accidentally sent the hammer’s head flying at Kennedy mouth. Kennedy received six stitches in his bottom lip after the incident on Wednesday during an economic development meeting, his spokeswoman …

PURCELL, Okla. – The man accused of killing a 10-year-old neighbor girl for an elaborate plan to eat human flesh joked about cannibalism on his online diary, discussed the effects of not taking his anti-depression medication and mentioned “dangerously weird” fantasies. All he wanted in life, Kevin Ray Underwood wrote …

NEW YORK – Rosie O’Donnell is expected to make a surprise return to daytime television by taking over exiting Meredith Vieira‘s slot on the talk show “The View.” O’Donnell’s appointment was reported Thursday by the newsmagazine “Extra.” It was confirmed by a person close to the show who spoke to …

NEW YORK – Dave Givens drives 370 miles to work and back every day and considers his seven-hour commute the best answer to balancing his work with his personal life. The winner of a nationwide contest to find the commuter with the longest trek, Givens is one of millions of …

BOSTON – Lawmakers overwhelmingly approved a bill Tuesday that would make Massachusetts the first state to require that all its citizens have some form of health insurance. The plan — approved just 24 hours after the final details were released — would use a combination of financial incentives and penalties …

ASBURY PARK, N.J. – Bruce Springsteen, rock ‘n’ roll icon, stands on a cramped Jersey shore stage surrounded by 16 musicians. There’s a fiddle, a banjo, a tuba, an accordion — and not a single electric guitar. The music swells, a glorious noise, as Springsteen leans into the microphone and …

CHARLESTON, W.Va. – Spurred on by the deaths of 14 miners in West Virginia alone since the beginning of the year, federal, labor and state officials are pledging to make conditions safer for workers toiling underground in the nation’s vast coal mines. One day after the bodies of two missing …

CAIRO, Egypt – The U.S. journalist Jill Carroll, weeping and veiled, appeared on a new videotape aired Monday by Al-Jazeera, and the Arab television station said she appealed for the release of all Iraqi women prisoners. The video was dated Saturday, two days after the U.S. military released five Iraqi …