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Hyundai Motor says it will defer payments due from US federal employees impacted by the partial government shutdown.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe takes a long-awaited decision to raise Japan's sales tax by 3 percentage points next year, placing the need to cut the nation's towering debt ahead of any risk to recent economic growth.

For many individuals, reinvesting dividends may be among the most obvious and automatic rules for building wealth, and with good reason – it can be an easy way to get more shares of the funds or company stock you alrea...

As media outlets flourish, and attention spans shrink to hashtag-sized dimensions, advertisers have had to get increasingly creative with how they deliver messages to the masses.

Wearable computing is one of the most excited trends in gadget tech today, and for good reason. Collecting data about our habits, from what we eat to where we go to lunch, will let us learn about our daily patterns and c...

Mississippi Power Co. says its Kemper County power plant won't be finished by the original May 2014 deadline.

Silk Road, an underground e-commerce site known for trafficking illegal drugs, has been shut down. Its alleged founder, Russ Ulbricht, aka "Dread Pirate Roberts" or "DPR," has been arrested. Silk Roaders are bumming. And...

Welcome to Tuesday Night Fights, a weekly celebration and analysis of street-fight videos found on YouTube. Tonight's fisticuffs: "Girl Fight in Quezon City Philippines." Tonight's commentator: Filipino Foodie Drew Lazor...

Wednesday's arrest of alleged Silk Road founder Ross William Ulbricht appears to be having a negative effect on the Bitcoin market. The value of the virtual currency began to plummet in the minutes after the FBI announce...

In The Age of Oversupply (Penguin Group, 2013), Daniel Alpert makes a compelling case that the United States and the world are stuck in a serious crisis of insufficient demand for the foreseeable future. According to Alp...

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Among the shutdown's effects is firms' inability to use E-Verify, which went offline. Hotels near a closed national park report cancellations. The housing market could suffer.WASHINGTON — The effect of the partial gove...

Not 'bricks and mortar', a Chinese glass cylinder Apple has been granted a patent for the cylindrical entryway into its flagship retail store in the Lujiazui district of Shanghai's Pudong sector....

Drug-starved Internet users were able to rely on Silk Road to get their fill of whatever vice they wanted until today, when the anonymous marketplace was seized and shut down by the FBI. But the Silk Road is just one of ...

Dell has revived the Venue name, officially announcing the Dell Venue 8 Pro and Dell Venue 11 Pro tablets at a press event in New York. The tablets offer high-end specs, delivering a Windows 8.1 package with plenty of po...

Sometimes, just sometimes, social media can truly help you connect with the world, instead of taking you out of it. When Guardian editor Spencer Ackerman's mother passed away last Thursday, he tweeted a sort of eulogy fo...

We realize how important it is to stay on top of our dental hygiene on a daily basis as having a mouth full of rotting teeth will probably won’t be a great look for us. The problem is the amount of time it takes to bru...

The country is spiraling into chaos after months of sectarian violence and spillover from Syria's own internal conflict

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- The U.S. and South Korea agreed Wednesday to work together to strengthen the South's ability to deter threats from North Korea, and have endorsed a new military strategy to better coordinate th...

Legendary graffiti artist Banksy has announced a new exhibition of sorts called "Better Out Than In" which is described on its website as "an artists residencey on the streets of New York."