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What does Olen conclude we should do? "We need to talk about our money." Not our personal financial situations, mind you, but our collective money. Whatever that means.

A seven-day hostage situation in Alabama has ended with a 5-year-old child freed and his kidnapper dead, CBS is reporting. BREAKING NEWS: A U.S. official says Alabama hostage situation is over: kidnapped child is alive, ...

Israel's Mossad is a world renowned secret intelligence and special operations agency most famous for hunting down hidden Nazis and systematically locating and killing the terrorists responsible for the brutal slayings a...

Timken (TKR) was upgraded by Bank of America/Merrill Lynch (BAC) to buy as the company is well run and should do better as the economy recovers.

Columbia Sportswear (COLM) was downgraded by Citigroup (C) from neutral to sell with a price target of $45 due to several negative catalysts in the pipeline, as well as a changing environment.

Wow. We're blown away by Beyonce's incredible half time show. Beyonce just completely dominated the Super Bowl. Here's a highlight, we'll have video of the Destiny's Child reunion soon: Please follow The Wire on Twitter ...

Blackberry aired its make-or-break Super Bowl ad right before the power went out in half of the Superdome in New Orleans during the Super Bowl. It was one of the few ads that wasn't teased or released prior to the big ga...

Cash flow has stalled for the world's major gold producers despite high gold prices, which probably means we're heading for a gold production cliff, according to National Bank Financial. That means higher prices. From NB...

Budweiser used the first ad break in the Super Bowl to launch Black Crown, it's new golden amber brew. Here's the first of a set of ads, featuring trendy stylish people all dressed in black at an exclusive banquet. The a...

In what could be one of the biggest residential real estate stories of the year, a historic estate in Hillsborough, Calif. has hit the market for $100 million. The 47-acre spread has belonged to members of the de Guigne ...

On Thursday, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) set Twitter ablaze with a tweet comparing Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to a monkey. The senator's "joke" referenced last week's strange story about an Iranian primate that...

Rainfall extremes are increasing around the world, and the increase is linked to the warming of the atmosphere which has taken place since pre-industrial times. This is the conclusion of a recent study which investigated...

Last year, author Pamela Druckerman caused a firestorm when she published an essay in The Wall Street Journal called "Why French Parents are Superior." The story, an excerpt from her book Bringing Up Bébé, concluded th...

The U.S. Supreme Court justices hand-pick four clerks each every year for what's arguably the most prestigious legal gig out there. High court clerks write "bench memos" to fill their justices in on a particular case, di...

When Dell goes private in its approximately $23 billion management-led buyout, it's possible that it could use its time out of Wall Street's glare to snap up more tech companies and further distance itself from the PC

Whether you're trying to pitch a product or yourself as a person, selling is never easy. But by mastering the art of the sale, you open doors to new connections and opportunities -- and can create meaningful bonds that p...

United States Steel Corporation (X) maintained its quarterly dividend of 5 cents per share. The dividend is payable March 8, 2013, to stockholders of record at the close of business February 12, 2013.

So you like your iPhone 5 or iPad 4, but want to live outside of the app store's "garden of pure ideology?" You're in luck: A group of hackers known as evad3rs has released the first jailbreak for iPhone 5, EvasiOn.

Twitter has acquired Bluefin Labs, a social TV analytics company that was founded in 2008, sources say. Although we don't know the exact acquisition price, we were told this is Twitter's biggest acquisition to date. (Pre...

Most cash goes into stock funds as investors cheer economy.

In an interview with NPR, outgoing U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta claimed that the U.S. doesn't carry out drone strikes when women and/or children are present. However, NPR follows Panetta's remarks with evidence th...

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