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Let me say it right away: the best blog written by a doctor, at least that I've ever read, is by a provincial South African general surgeon who calls himself Bongi. He doesn't write about complex medical policy, and he d...

I got talking with Scott Anthony yesterday, managing partner at Innosight, the innovation advisory firm founded by Clayton Christensen. I asked him for his take on the most important attributes of leaders in companies th...

Most tech industry internship-seekers would do anything to work at Facebook, Google, Amazon or Apple. In fact, they'd probably even do it for free.

Twitter has moved to include more video in tweets with the use of a new service called Vine, but its launch has not been without hiccups.

Yesterday we passed along the news that Fred Smoot, best known for inserting a double-ended dildo into two prostitutes on a Vikings sex cruise, was arrested last month in Washington for a DUI. Among the information in th...

Often it takes a rare injustice perpetrated against a privileged young person for our society to recognize the common injustices we visit every day upon less-privileged minorities.

Amazon's startup challenge to find the best and most innovative implementation of its cloud services wrapped up this evening. Find out which budding businesses won.

Of all Facebook's data sets, it's the social graph that's truly unique. It's spent nine years getting you to confirm who you know, and apparently it's sick of handing over your friend list to competitors. This week it cu...

J.J. Abrams, the creator of Lost and director of the new Star Trek films, is reportedly set to direct the next Star Wars movie.

A roller derby girl named Jillian Bellovary (a.k.a. "Big Banger"), who is a regular user of Herbalife, has some harsh words for hedge fund manager Bill Ackman if the company goes under. She wrote the following to NPR's P...

The makers of two popular energy drinks, Red Bull and Monster, are arming for a legislative battle in Washington over whether caffeine and other ingredients pose a health risk that merits tougher regulation. Red Bull Nor...

When you think of wildlife in Alaska, odds are you think of the grizzly bears. And probably wolves, moose, and other big game that are both dangerous and compelling. But there is so much amazing wildlife in this untamed ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- Freezing rain and sleet have closed schools and offices and caused hundreds of wrecks across North Carolina, Tennessee and Kentucky. The icy weather snarled traffic across much of western and cent...

Rich people have all the fun. Don't believe me? Just watch some of the footage from this afternoon's battle of finance titans featuring Bill Ackman and Carl Icahn.

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Hey, vermin, don't bogart that evidence! Wichita police in Kansas are hot on the tail of mice that chewed through bags of marijuana kept in a police storage facility, KMBC reported. The three packages were evidence seize...

Followed to its logical conclusion, the Boehner rule would radically transform government, dismantling many of the social advances of the past half century or more and paving the way for large increases in poverty and in...

ABC News' Michael Falcone reports: CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Nearly three months after losing the 2012 presidential election, Republicans seem to have a simple prescription for what ails their party: Turn those frowns upside do...

Over the long term, Social Security and Medicare have promised tens of trillions of dollars more in benefits than the nation can pay for under current policies, but Social Security's disability trust fund is in even wors...

On Nov. 17, 1968, Lincoln Center's Philharmonic Hall was paying tribute to Harold Arlen with a show. Judy Garland, who debuted Harold's most famous song, "Over The Rainbow," was asked to perform. Unfortunately, she was i...

Christine C. Quinn, if elected mayor, would have the influence to overturn new restrictions on the sales of sugary drinks.