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This brilliant front page from British newspaper The Independent takes a visual reveal how few rape cases result in convictions in the UK. You can read the full story here > Please follow Law & Order on Twitter and Faceb...

A Pennsylvania superintendent wasted no time when news of Adam Lanza hit the airwaves, Superintendent Mike Strutt was on the phone with Butler County School Board President Don ­Pringle that same day, reports Eli Saslow...

Why are some companies hated? The answer often depends on who is asking. Corporations can anger their customers, fail their shareholders, and mistreat their employees. 24/7 Wall St. analyzed each of these angles to pick ...

These residences were created from buildings that formerly served other purposes, like churches and water towers.

A guide to the key news events and economic indicators in the nation's capital during the week.

Samsung has been promising us a phone running Microsoft's latest Windows Phone 8 software for several months now, but we weren't able to actually see one in action until the Consumer Electronics Show this week. The ATIV ...

Guest Post As Europe languishes and Asia matures, enterprising European entrepreneurs will revitalize their links to the U.S. and expand via Silicon Valley.

NEW YORK -- It was a joyful drive, nearly 300 miles from my home in Northern Virginia to this throbbing city. It was an instructive drive, too. I tend to be too invested in causes of the moment, such as fuel economy and ...

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Taco Bell is testing a new value menu that could put it in more direct competition with the Dollar Menu at McDonald's.

What irritates me is the extent to which Noonan is still out of touch with reality when it comes to the Republican brand. As long as Republicans can't see that people making $400,000 a year are actually rich, they will h...

Four McDonald's employees in suburban Chicago claim their manager sexually assaulted them and wouldn't let them take bathroom breaks unless they had sex with him, Courthouse News reports. Alfonso Rojas, manager of a McDo...

The CST 01 is just 0.8 millimeters thick.

For the first time since the financial crisis, automakers are entering a year not only confident that they will sell more cars and trucks, but knowing they have more new...

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul (R) is recommending a new approach toward the debt ceiling standoff. Unlike some of his fellow Republicans, Paul understands that forcing the country to default by refusing to raise the debt ce...

CNN's Richard Quest speaks with James Hogan, President & CEO of Abu Dhabi-based Etihad Airways.

AJ McCarron's girlfriend Katherine Webb announced that she's going to be in the 2013 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue in a big interview with Jimmy Traina of SI today. She talked candidly about what her fame means, sayi...

NEW YORK -- Taco Bell is testing a new value menu that could put it in more direct competition with the Dollar Menu at McDonald's....

In a move that's pitting grassroots housing activists against Wall Street interests, the City Council of Brockton, Mass., decided this week to commission a study...

Our obsession with spicy tuna rolls has led bluefin tuna to the breaking point. The bluefin fishery is on the verge of collapse, scientists said in a new report released this week, The New York Times reports. The report ...

In a letter co-signed by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, majority whip Dick Durbin, vice chairman of the Democratic Caucus Chuck Schumer, and budget committee chairwoman Patty Murray, the four Democrats, presumably on...

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