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Isa Soares speaks with the Italian finance minister about the issues facing the country's economy.

It has been a year since Sergey Borisov wrote about the revival of Oriza L. Legrand: a noteworthy house which created fragrances for the aristocracy and royal courts of France, Russia, Italy, and England. Oriza L. Legran...

LTE is starting to become a reality for prepaid customers on inexpensive plans. Straight Talk, a carrier formed from a partnership between Walmart and Tracfone, is now allowing users who bring smartphones capable with AT...

Lucas123 writes "On the news that Linus Trovalds's SSD went belly up while he was coding the 3.12 kernel, Computerworld took a closer look at SSDs and their failure rates. While Torvalds didn't specify the SSD manufactur...

Sam Smolders tried to enter the U.S. by swimming across the Detroit River from Canada.

Napoleon Hill, a Great Depression-era author and former advisor to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, decided more than 76 years ago to figure out the key to wealth. To do so, he interviewed more than 500 of the most succe...

Android isn't just dominating smart phones, it's dominating all computing platforms.  This chart from BI Intelligence shows that Android now has 60% of all computing platforms. Microsoft's Windows, on the other hand, ...

Originally published in the May 17, 1987, edition of The Washington Post Magazine. Republished here with the author's permission. His postscript follows. For more on Hagler-Leonard, check out Grantland's oral history.

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LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (AP) -- At Los Alamos National Laboratory, a seven-year, $213 million upgrade to the security system that protects the lab's most sensitive nuclear bomb-making facilities doesn't work. Those same facilit...

Developer Glenn Straub has lined up to bid on the former Versace mansion, which is being auctioned Tuesday in bankruptcy proceedings.

This time a week ago, the nomination of Larry Summers to be the next chairman of the Federal Reserve seemed like a near-certainty. The signals out of the White House were that the president had largely made up his mind a...

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At least one person dies and more than 30 are missing after a fire sweeps through a psychiatric hospital in north-western Russia, officials say.

Twitter, the short messaging service named after chirping birds, is finally ready to migrate to Wall Street.

The bill would boost the state's minimum wage of $8 an hour to $10 by 2016. Gov. Jerry Brown said he would sign it.SACRAMENTO — A bill that would boost California's minimum wage to $10 an hour by 2016 won approval by t...

Taxpayers are spending hundreds of millions of dollars each year to care for the victims of gun violence, according to a report from the Urban Institute released Friday. About 80 percent of the cost of treating victims o...

A line of children's book with parts that pose a choking hazard and dehumidifiers that can overheat and catch fire are among this week's recalled consumer products. Others include toy sets, motorcycle training wheels, an...

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Last night on "Conan," comedy duo "Key & Peele" brought back a second round of their infamous bit making fun of the increasingly ridiculous names of NFL players. The weird thing is, it's hardly a parody.

One of American Jews' great traditions -- not found in the Bible or any other sacred book -- is fretting over whether Jewish Major Leaguers will play on the high holidays, particularly Yom Kippur, the most sacred day in ...