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Instead of celebrating America's freedom this week, a Missouri mother says she is now fighting for her personal liberties after she was ejected from a water park for wearing a string bikini.

Massive, recording-breaking blooms of the algae Enteromorpha prolifera have been washing up on China's beaches in Shandong province, near Qingdao. The bloom is the size of Connecticut and officials have already removed 1...

Gray hair is the ultimate banker/hedge fund hair do. We couldn't help but notice that a handful of folks in finance have developed some really, really nice silver strands over the years. They're what we would consider th...

PHOTOS: The Best Films of 2013 (So Far) Conventional wisdom has it that the studios, ever mindful of awards season, tend to reserve their quality movies for year's end. Certainly that seems to have been the case this yea...

A sofa is one of the biggest furniture investments you'll make -- and one of the most permanent. Even if you're just buying one for a temporary fix, it'll eventually get demoted from the living room to the family room to...

Every Friday we'll get you hooked up with some solid weekend plans. These are the things we think you should watch, read or do over the next few days. 1 LOOK AT THIS: AO-AO - Tumblr (NSFW) 2 READ THIS: Rick Rubin on Cras...

Basketball wasn't always a prevalent sport on the international level, but events like the William Jones Cup have gone a long way toward spreading its popularity to every corner of the globe. Beginning July 6, the 35th e...

Cyclist Lance Armstrong sold his lake house in Austin after owning it for six weeks to race car driver Bret Curtis and his wife, Yecenia, for an undisclosed amount. The 12,553-square-foot home has a 200-foot suspension b...

Pirates broadcaster Robby Incmikoski visited with manager Clint Hurdle's father during today's game at Wrigley Field, but the friendly confines turned out to be considerably less than advertised when an usher brought a s...

As Egypt braces itself for more possible clashes in the wake of this week's military coup, it's business as usual in the country's most popular holiday resorts. While some tour operators have cancelled flights to Luxor a...

Instagram has been updated to version 4.0.2, adding a couple of small but important improvements. The app now supports both photo and video recording in landscape mode, and anti-shake reduction for video capture has been...

One photographer hatched a plan to make a symphony from a vast array of professional Nikon SLRs. The result can only be described as music to a camera geek's ears.

seagirlreed writes "Rocket traffic may be adding water to the Earth's mesosphere, leading to more very high clouds in this layer of thin air on the edge of space. From the article: 'A team of researchers looking for an e...

In this week's episode of Ask A VC, Lightbank partner Paul Lee stopped in the studio. Lee, who is based in Chicago, joined Lightbank as a Partner in February 2011 and has led investments in BabbaCo, Udemy, ElaCarte, Skyv...

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has approved the $21.6 billion acquisition of Sprint by Japanese telecommunications group Softbank, saying it promises to bring consumers faster and more advanced wireless broad...

The company's Tizen project has reportedly been delayed, raising questions about its reliance on Android and how fast it can downshift to the growing market for cheaper phones.

As the hoary baseball cliché puts it, 'Grab some pine, meat!' Battery technology has stubbornly resisted major breakthoughs, but a team of researchers at the University of Maryland has found help from a most unlikely so...

417MB update to the latest version of Android now available in some European countries A few days after Taiwanese HTC One owners got their update to Android 4.2.2, the latest firmware update is starting to roll to some E...

The first images of the all-new 2014 Mazda 3 sedan have hit the Web early, thanks to a number of leaks overnight. As expected, the redesigned sedan shares its styling with the 2014 Mazda 3 hatchback revealed last week, e...

Why can't you escape this duo's catchy tune? And what's the worst social platform for selling products? These stories and more in this week's scouting report on provocative ideas for business.

The NHL's 2013 offseason kicks into high gear as free agency is underway. Stay with us for all the latest buzz on the Toronto Maple Leafs. Toronto had a successful 2012-13 season by making the playoffs for the first time...

Her wardrobe choice was no malfunction.