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Musk doesn't just want to go to Mars, he wants to build a civilization there. The post Elon Musk Announces His Plan to Colonize Mars and Save Humanity appeared first on WIRED.

How does a man whose brand is all about winning come to terms with defeat? After a widely panned performance in Monday’s inaugural presidential debate, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump gave several contradi...

On Tuesday, President Obama nominated Jeffrey DeLaurentis as the first U.S. ambassador to Cuba in more than a half-century. Since 2014, when the U.S. Embassy in Havana reopened, DeLaurentis has been the country's chief d...

Few conversations about high-tech go by in Taipei without a reference to the Silicon Valley. A Taiwanese startup founder might have just visited the fabled California tech hub or a venture capital firm there is traveling...

Peres embodied the state of Israel

Mr. Trump's refusal to release his tax returns allowed Hillary Clinton to suggest at the debate that perhaps he has not paid income taxes.

CU Bancorp in Los Angeles has agreed to a consent order to address deficiencies in its Bank Secrecy Act and anti-money laundering compliance program.

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(Reuters) - Brewing company Anheuser-Busch has agreed to pay $6 million to settle charges that it violated U.S. anti-bribery laws and also "chilled a whistleblower," the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said on We...

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Shimon Peres, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate who was prime minister of Israel on three separate occasions before becoming the country's president, died Wednesday. He was 93.

A new toy store ad is receiving high praise for a simple but meaningful reason. Smyths Toys Superstores, which sells toys across Ireland and the U.K., released a new ad that shows a little boy singing a version of Beyonc...

Venezuelans, who can, are traveling to the United States to buy basic goods as chronic shortages erode a sense of normalcy.

REUTERS/Greg Baker/Pool China said on Tuesday it was opposed to any country using its own laws to carry out “long arm jurisdiction”, after the United States sanctioned a Chinese industrial machinery wholesaler tied t...

August's durable goods report slipped from July's reading, mainly due to the volatile commercial aircraft category

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The Apple co-founder knew how to captivate an audience. Here are a handful of traits that made him a powerful public speaker and leader.

The world's first "three-parent" baby was born following a cutting-edge medical procedure by a New York City doctor, according to reports Tuesday. Dr. John Zhang, of the New Hope Fertility Center, helped an unnamed Jorda...

The ballyhooed first slugfest between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump shattered TV ratings rec­ords for presidential debates -- and even the Taliban were glued to their screens in an ­Afghan hideout. At least 81.4 mil...

Stanford University/Facebook At Columbia University, most undergraduate students must pass a swim test in order to graduate. Engineering students at the school's Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science, h...

Sarah Jacobs New York City's Diamond District, located on 47th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues, glitters and sparkles, the well-lit diamonds in shop windows luring your eyes in. But what shoppers might not realiz...

Oxfam Only 10 companies control almost every large food and beverage brand in the world. These companies — Nestlé, Pepsico, Coca-Cola, Unilver, Danone, General Mills, Kellogg's, Mars, Associated British Foods, and Mo...