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2012 has been quite the year for celebrity relationships. This is the year that brought us the shocking TomKat divorce, the birth of Blue Ivy, the Kristen Stewart cheating fiasco, the long-awaited engagement of Brangelin...

It isn’t just the built-in video players that make the Chrysler Town & Country minivan attractive to kids. With the sliding doors open it looks like a Republic gunship from ”Star Wars,” they tell me.

Senate and House leaders are working to stave off the expiration of dozens of farm programs and a return to an antiquated 1949 farm law that could lead to a doubling of milk prices.

The young woman whose gang rape and savage beating on a Delhi bus that sparked protests throughout India has died, hours after her organs began to fail and her vital signs deteriorated. Doctors said the young woman "died...

You don't have to be Warren Buffett to be considered wealthy. It all depends on who is setting the bar. Here's why it matters for your taxes, investment options and college aid—and what you can do about it.

A reader responds to “A 2013 Guide to Better Behavior” (Fair Game, Dec. 23).

A reader responds to “Fiscal Symbolism Can Go a Long Way” (Economic View, Dec. 23).

We already know about Paul Tudor Jones, Jamie Dimon and Steve Schwarzman because we read about them all time. But we really don't know much about their wives at all, and that feels a little odd. We've found that many of ...

The stock market had a pretty good year in 2012: the S&P 500, for all of investors' macro concerns, was up around 11.7 percent. One of the biggest stories in the market was the homebuilding sector. Many of those stocks s...

The sunroof is rising again, and this time the views are bigger than ever. But concerns about safety and economy are growing, too.

A built-in pizza oven was just the beginning for one Virginia couple's kitchen makeover.

After a staggering loss in 2009, the Hitachi Corporation has engineered a stunning turnaround, costing jobs and opportunity in its home city of Hitachi, Japan.

I've found the rumors that Anna Wintour could be named ambassador to Britain surprising. Being empress of Vogue and the unofficial head of the fashion world seems like a more interesting job, and my understanding is it p...

For the sixth year in a row, gift cards were the No. 1 requested item this holiday season. Yet even they can go wrong. Maybe you're a movie person, and Aunt Annie gave you a gift card to REI. Or perhaps you scored a Star...

Eliquis is the third anticlotting medicine to be approved recently and it is expected the backers will aggressively market their products.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Netflix CEO Reed Hastings' pay will double to $4 million next year, after he took a pay cut due to management missteps this year. Hastings' annual salary will rise to $2 million in 2013 and he w...

THE collapse of John Boehner's "Plan B" reveals the Republican Party to be in a politically disastrous position. The media narrative is shaping up to pin the full blame for sending the country over the fiscal cliff on th...

Suzy Khimm has already written about the much-feared "milk cliff." If Congress fails to renew the farm bill by Jan. 1, the country's farm policy will revert back to laws dating from 1949. Government price supports for mi...

Kickstarter is a place where entrepreneurs and artists can post ideas and raise money from other users. Before 2012, no project had ever raised $1 million on the platform. In the last 12 months, 17 projects exceeded 9-fi...

One customer in Kentucky ordered 32,000 rounds of ammunition from a Montana dealer.

Unbeknownst to the lucky children who unwrapped tablets or smartphones this holiday season, new rules issued in Washington to protect their privacy on those devices could have profound implications for… Click to Co...

Japan's new finance minister upped the ante in the country's war of words against the strong yen, calling on the U.S. to strengthen the dollar.