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For weeks, parental vigilantes have been protesting a certain teen product line at Victoria's Secret.  "Victoria's Secret has just launched a new line called 'Bright Young Things' marketed to tweens and teens," reads ...

On monday, word spread that Carl Icahn has made a bid for Dell that could oust its founder and CEO Michael Dell from the company. But who is Icahn, and what does he want with Dell? Often described as an "activist investo...

After experiencing a throbbing pain and noticing redness in her right eye, Ashley Hyde, an 18-year-old high school senior, went to several doctors. None of them could figure out the problem. More »

As one of the most contentious couples to ever emerge from the literature world, Amazon and Goodreads are joining forces. "We’re looking forward to inspiring...

Carl Edgar Blake II might be the world's first celebrity pig farmer. A big profile in the Times last month introduced him to people who might not regularly keep up on their Iowa pig news, and last night he hit The Colber...

As the nation struggles to come to terms with the loss of T-Mobile girl Carly Foulkes — the company has decided to drop the pink-clad model from its new iPhone campaign — we at Business Insider felt it was ...

Canadian Pacific rail cars derail in Minn., spill oil onto frozen ground; cleanup under way

A Miami appeals court has ruled Florida polo tycoon John Goodman could not adopt his longtime adult girlfriend.

The school board has begun to tighten graduation requirements in effort to keep kids from arriving to college unprepared. Meanwhile, New Haven’s experimental high school is going straight to the Capitol for a fund...

NCAA Basketball Players Do Ballet

Google made plenty of nerds happy earlier this week when it began reaching out to the 8,000 people that would have the privilege of spending $1,500 on the company's head-mounted Glass display, but that thrill wound up be...

Adam Parker Smith’s exhibition “Thanks” is made up entirely of works he stole from 77 artists: paintings, sculptures, sketchbooks, video, architectural objects, artmaking devices and more.

Stephen Christopher Quinn has spent nearly 40 years creating and repairing dioramas at the American Museum of Natural History, but on Friday he will officially retire.

Here is Matt Yglesias cruelly baiting Bob Somerby: It really is a little shocking in retrospect how entrenched the Gore stuff has become. Matt is reacting to a Republican ad that tries to pretend that Rep. Ed Markey is t...

Payne, who won four Emmys for his work on 'The Simpsons,' also wrote the screenplays for 'Thor,' 'My Super Ex-Girlfriend' and 'Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer.'Don Payne, an award-winning writer and producer of...

NEW YORK/DETROIT (Reuters) - Fisker Automotive, the U.S.-backed maker of luxury plug-in hybrid sports cars, has hired law firm Kirkland & Ellis to advise it on a possible bankruptcy filing, a source said on Thursday, whi...

He took part in the ritual on Holy Thursday.

Jay Shells is an artist and graphic designer based in Manhattan who combines his love for design with his passion for hip hop in his latest project, "Rap Quotes." First seen on ANIMAL New York, Shells has been installing...

Recently I had dinner with Andy Fletcher.  We talked about a lot of things from the “I ain’t got time for that” frenzy to the need to understand your customer base and their needs.  I got a few l...

Brian Urlacher must embrace his football mortality. He's not the same player who terrorized NFL offenses for over a decade. His body has betrayed him, and he won't see the field in 2013 unless he's willing to accept a sh...

The objections were at least a temporary setback for the treaty, the most ambitious attempt to regulate global trade in conventional weapons.

Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh said Thursday that Republicans had "lost" on the issue of gay marriage, no matter what the Supreme Court decides in a pair of high-profile cases this year.  Limbaugh said that gay...