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Comedian Katt Williams was once one of the funniest people on the planet. Now, he's in a very bad place. Yesterday, a judge in Seattle issued two warrants after Williams failed to show up to court there. This was just th...

Bayern Munich was held to a 1-1 draw at home by a stubborn Monchengladbach on Friday as Bayern needed a goal from Xherdan Shaqiri in the second half to claim a point.The result lifts Bayern 12 points clear of second-plac...

The New York Giants have ruled out running back Ahmad Bradshaw for Sunday's game with the Atlanta Falcons due to a knee sprain that's kept the team's leading rusher out of practice the entire week.Bradshaw sustained the ...

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Some of Britain's leading scientists call on the government to grant a posthumous pardon to Bletchley Park codebreaker Alan Turing.

La Confrérie des Chevaliers du Tastevin and the Commanderie de Bordeaux may have special songs and veiled practices, but secret societies they are not.

You know the old argument for buying land: They’re not making any more of it. The twin credit and housing crises sent land prices plummeting, and the share prices of developers like Tejon Ranch (TRC) and Amrep (AX...

Any tech investor can name lots of reasons for the repeated sell-offs in Apple (AAPL) shares lately, and to some extent, they’re probably right about all of them. But when you cut out the hysteria and look at the ...

The Wall Street Journal’s Brent Arends smartly noticed a pair of seemingly unloved, high-yielding stocks last week in a column talking up Waste Management (WM) and Republic Services Group (RSG), which together dom...

Apple stock got clobbered again today, falling 4% to $510. That's the lowest close for the stock since its recent swoon began in September. (It's also a level that Apple first breached on the way up last winter. The stoc...

As details continue to emerge about the shooting at a Newtown, Connecticut school this morning, many are taking to Twitter to piece together the senseless act which claimed at least 25 lives. The tragic shooting has a...

The Bushmaster .223 rifle has a tragic legacy that looks to be growing if CNN reports are correct. The Cable News Network reports that Adam Lanza used three weapons to commit the mass shooting in Connecticut, but the one...

Choosing independent businesses and local financial institutions is a great idea. But a purely consumer-oriented response won't get us where we need to go, in part because it fails to fully grapple with how we got here i...

Tesla Motors will begin operations at its new European Distribution Center in the Netherlands this month, it announced this week. The 62,000 square foot facility in Tilburg, near the Belgian border, will be used as Tesla...

As fans of "The Bachelor" are all too sadly aware, the dating competition show has only produced three marriages in its 24 seasons -- "Bachelorette" Trista Rehn (now Sutter) married Ryan Sutter in 2003, "Bachelor" Jason ...

Energy stocks are mixed, with oil-field services giant Schlumberger Ltd. declining more than 4% as it warns profit will take a hit due to a drilling slowdown.

UBS cuts price target on Apple and shares fall 3%; VeriFone shares also retreat after weak results.

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The Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency today recommended that mipomersen (Kynamro, Isis and Genzyme) not be approved for use in Europe. The novel antisense oligonucl...

DETROIT (Reuters) - U.S. safety regulators broadened a more than two-year probe into the possibility of unintended acceleration in about 480,000 Ford Motor Co sedans when floor mats are unsecured or stacked.

Wal-Mart said Friday that it had would offer deep discounts on favorite Apple products, including two models of iPhones and a new iPad. The move left some questioning whether such bargain-basement deals could put a dent ...

New court filings in Saints linebacker Jonathan Vilma's defamation lawsuit against Roger Goodell portray one of Vilma's chief accusers in the league's bounty investigation, former Saints defensive assistant coach Mike Ce...