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High unemployment, poor access to basic necessities such as food, shelter, and medicine, and rising obesity rates continue to plague many of America's Southern states, according to the latest Gallup-Healthways Well-Being...

By Thomas Ferraro WASHINGTON, March 2 (Reuters) - The U.S. Congress is getting an earful about the big spending cuts beginning to hit government services...

The Westchester village of Pleasantville is a suburban community with a rural atmosphere where walking is a central fact of life.

After thruster issues after launch on Friday, the SpaceX Dragon capsule containing cargo bound for the International Space Station had to miss this morning's planned docking with the space station. The issues were resolv...

There's been a recent and dramatic surge of support for gay rights in America. Voters in three states made history in November by approving same-sex marriage, and some of the country's most powerful Republicans have come...

Subletting is a great solution for college students, temporary dwellers and those who don’t want to sign a yearlong lease. Here are some simple codes to follow that ensure the best relationship possible between th...

Readers respond to “The Vet Debt Trap” (Feb. 24).

Economic analysis raises questions about the role of a higher minimum wage in reducing poverty. As a result, many economists prefer other ways of helping low-income families.

March 2 (Reuters) - Las Vegas Sands Corp said it "likely" violated the federal Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which outlaws the bribery of foreign officials,...

Technology giant Huawei is plotting to overtake Apple and Samsung in the mobile phone market. Matt Warman spoke to the firm’s director of innovation about China, expansion and making great kit . In Barcelona this ...

The TAQA oil company says dozens of workers have been evacuated from a North Sea oil platform after a hydrocarbon leak was detected. Click to Continue »

Politicians on both sides of the aisle continued to blame each other Saturday for the federal budget cuts, the so-called sequester, that began to take effect late Friday after all 11th-hour efforts to reach an agreement ...

(Reuters) - Las Vegas Sands Corp said it "likely" violated the federal Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which outlaws the bribery of foreign officials, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing on Friday.

Facebook engineers all go through six weeks of indoctrination and learning the hard way to find the teams they'll be on for years. Here's our look inside the bootcamp process.

Ryan Smith, the chief executive of Qualtrics, says his company has a transparent culture because “everyone needs to know where we are going and how we are going to get there.”

India's government said Thursday it would set up a new public sector bank for women as part of efforts to address gender imbalances in a...

ATHENS (Reuters) - Officials from the European Union and the International Monetary Fund return to Athens on Sunday to assess Greece's performance under a bailout plan as the government plays down the prospect of public ...

In a new book, Benn Steil describes in detail the intellectual back-and-forth that played out in 1944 at the Bretton Woods monetary conference.

In the widening world of classes taught online, new technologies are helping to ensure that students on distant laptops are doing their own work.

At some sports arenas, fans can now receive multiple video feeds of the action on their smartphones. But what does that do to the communal enjoyment of a live event?

CAMBRIDGE, Mass (Reuters) - Governments are in a key role in solving the sovereign debt crisis, and central banks can buy time, not replace their actions, European Central Bank Executive Board member Benoit Coeure said o...

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's top fundraisers brought in at least $186 million for the president's re-election campaign. Obama's campaign released a list of 770...