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Springtime at Park Avenue, but not for too much longer. Gael Greene reports the sad news on her Insatiable Critic blog that Fourth Wall Restaurants' Park Avenue Café will close on January 1, 2014. Father-and-son duo Ala...

A rare copy of 'Action Comics' No. 1 was discovered in insulation of Minnesota house.

Long before Jeff Probst snuffed out his first torch on Survivor, the viewing tribe had spoken: We love watching the game shows people play. This is the original reality TV -- average Joes and Janes trying to outwit, outp...

The crowd of social media sites chasing Facebook have made strides in growing their U.S. user bases over the past year. Pinterest and Google+ are perhaps the biggest revelations. The latest data from comScore from March ...

Jennifer Lopez was in the middle of an in-studio radio interview with Washington D.C.'s Hot 99.5 when one of her "people" interrupted to hand her a cell phone. The call was good news -- J.Lo found out she got cast in a m...

You're asked to speak at an important event. It's an incredible opportunity. You should be thrilled... but since you rarely speak in a formal setting, all you can think about is bombing. The ability to captivate an audie...

Vanguard founder John Bogle says a uniform fiduciary standard is long overdue.

According to a report published by the Social Security Administration 62.5 million individuals received a benefit from Social Security in May 2013. Benefits from this 78 year old program, established in 1935, are receive...

Have you ever thought, "Chipotle's serving method is great, but sometimes I just want eastern cuisine instead of a burrito?" Well, you're in luck -- especially if you live in LA or DC. Chipotle (CMG) opened its first Sho...

Traces of an escape tunnel have been uncovered at the site of an infamous Nazi death camp in Poland, according to news reports. Archaeologists say the passageway, found 5 feet (1.5 meters) below the surface, spanned 32 f...

It's easy to see a great image, and then click on to the next. But behind every great image is a photographer, an actual human being. And they're not always assigned to weddings and rooftop bar parties. War in Libya, Syr...

Yahoo will start resetting IDs that have been inactive for over one year from 15th July. New and existing users will be able to make a claim for IDs they have always wanted.

SEATTLE - Microsoft said it would open 500 special stores within existing Best Buy stores in the United States selling exclusively Windows-based tablets and computers and other Microsoft products in an effort to revitali...

Musical artist Chris Brown played basketball at a Los Angeles gym with Detroit Pistons center Andre Drummond recently and made Vine magic. Vine is basically Instagram for video. The video plays like a PSA for defense gon...

Recent comments from prolific National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden have caused alarm in the intelligence community that he may defect to China, reports ABC. Snowden recently said China was under a tidal wave of...

Jim Rogers fears the worst for Japan. In an interview with Fusion MarketSite, the emerging markets and commodities guru says there is no way Japanese PM Shinzo Abe's growth policies can possibly succeed -- there are alre...

Storms have been pummeling the Midwest this week, bringing tornado warnings, heavy rain, and thunderstorms to the region. There's even talk of the storm system spawning a derecho, a huge, fast-moving storm that brings ra...

Divorce is nothing new for Rupert Murdoch, who is officially divorcing current wife Wendi Deng after 14 years. His first divorce was from Patricia Booker, a former flight attendant from Melbourne. The pair were married f...

The worst-case scenario is Isiah Thomas, of course. But the worst-case scenario in everything is generally Isiah Thomas. Hiring a Hall of Fame point guard as a coach, despite how difficult it can be for those with a grea...

As a language learner, you'll not only become a more conscious thinker and listener who can communicate clearly and think creatively, but you'll also gain the most significant benefit of multilingualism: a broader, more ...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Eli Lilly and Co. said Thursday that it stopped a mid-stage clinical trial of an experimental Alzheimer's disease drug because of potential side effects on patients' livers.

This is an (admittedly huge) list of words that supposedly cause the NSA to flag you as a potential terrorist if you over-use them in an email. We found this on Reddit, where James Bamford, a veteran reporter with 30 yea...