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Obama, first lady earned less than 2012 than prior years in office, paid $112k in income taxes

Washington Department of Labor investigates death at a Seattle transit station.

If you don't spend much time online, and if you're older than most college students, you may have missed the thousands of teens and 20-somethings who were running around the country this week with red "X" marks on their ...

As the world waits and watches for an expected North Korean ballistic missile test, the U.S. and its allies are prepared to respond if necessary.

Isa Soares travels to Northern Portugal where the county's shoe industry is going from strength to strength.

Thomas Prendergast, the head of the New York City's bus and subway system and a former Long Island Rail Road president, has been hand-picked by...

The Exploratorium, San Francisco's hands-on science and technology learning museum, is set to open up next week in its brand new location at Pier 15 right on the Bay, and we got the chance to head inside a few days early...

Cornell's new partner is the beating heart of start-up nation. What's the secret of its innovation success?

Kareem Serageldin, a former senior trader at Credit Suisse, admitted in court on Friday that he fraudulently inflated the value of mortgage bonds as the housing market collapsed.

Totals suggest that the organization may struggle to raise the kind of resources that the president was able to rely on during his campaigns.

The best DIY projects are useful, simple, and inexpensive. On rare occasions they're also beautiful. Such is the case with the Tres Lamp, a small source of lighting created out of three sticks and a lightbulb by Instruct...

From NYC's micro apartments to one couple's 140-square-foot home, small living spaces are the "it" trend in home design. And now it seems they've made their way over to Europe. First reported on by Wired, American archit...

For nearly a decade William I. Koch, the billionaire coal and petroleum magnate, has spent millions of dollars waging a legal crusade against wine counterfeiting. Today he scored a major victory when a federal jury in Ma...

Business networking site LinkedIn did make a few quick rounds sometime in the middle of March this year concerning the possibility of them purchasing Pulse News for a cool $90 million. Well, I guess as with all other goo...

"I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss, and, in their struggles to be truly free, in their triumphs and...

If you've ever tried to organize a video game night for kids or adults, you know finding enough controls and couch space, along with games that everyone can agree on, is a bit of a challenge. Thankfully, GameTruck offers...

Today the NLRB has no teeth, but if H.R. 1120 has its way, tomorrow it might not survive. A vote for H.R. 1120 is a vote to send this country to a pre-1935 era, before the National Labor Relations Act.

Jan Hatzius of Goldman Sachs had some interesting commentary on the deficit the other day. You'll recognize the sectoral balances chart in his work as he's one of the few analysts on Wall Street who seems to really appre...

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THAT'S A WRAP: A four-day surge on Wall Street came to an end on Friday as falling commodity prices brought down energy and mining stocks.

It may seem surprising that you don't even need to enter the Museo del Permanente where the perfume fair Esxence is usually held. Sooner or later everybody--journalists, operators, organizers and guests--find themselves ...

The world's biggest scheme to certify that seafish come from sustainable sources has come under fire in a scientific journal, where researchers say the label...