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When two high school football players were convicted of raping an intoxicated girl in Steubenville, Ohio, — after sending pictures of the act to friends and posting about it on social media — a significant ...

Ping Fu’s career advice to women is much simpler than leaning in or trying to have it all: Just do it. In her new memoir, Bend, Not Break: A Life in Two Worlds, Fu pragmatically writes: On the one hand, I care ...

Warren Buffett, the Oracle of Omaha, says investors should bet on the 'natural juices' of capitalism to continue to lead the U.S. economy out of recession.

Where you work can be an excellent predictor of your health, happiness and stress levels. A recent Gallup poll demonstrates the extent to which workers...

Museum goers were surprised to see actress Tilda Swinton live at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMa).  The "Moonrise Kingdom" actress was on display at the MoMa in New York City Saturday as part of an exhibit. "The Maybe"...

Cyprus's struggle to secure a bailout from the European Union will likely drive trading in the euro this week.

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Scraping out a living on $5 a day, taxi driver Sukarjo fears losing what many poor Indonesians see as the main economic help they get from their government: a subsidy that allows for Asia's cheapest f...

It's been almost five years since we set out to get America the energy plan it deserves. One thing hasn't changed: the need for aggressive and effective energy leadership in Washington. Long story short -- we have no nat...

March 24 (Reuters) - A special committee of Dell Inc's board is evaluating separate takeover proposals from Blackstone Group and billionaire investor Carl Icahn to decide whether either or both are likely to trump an exi...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - China's ZTE Corp, which helped bring the telephone to millions of homes during the Deng Xiaoping era, is counting on a new generation of tech-savvy smartphone users to drive at least $7.5 billion of...

Even with the priceless brand-building glow enjoyed by a few celebrity CEOs like Richard Branson and Tony Hsieh isn’t it strange that so few CEOs attempt the same success? Odder still, few companies tap the scalab...

People in Newtown have been receiving automated phone messages from the National Rifle Association asking them to oppose gun control legislation. The news was broken by advocacy group the Newtown Action Alliance  in a...

BRUSSELS, March 24 (Reuters) - Euro zone finance ministers delayed by two hours a Sunday evening meeting intended to help Cyprus meet a Monday deadline...

Will debt-troubled Cyprus get a bailout or not? As the euro-zone country races to meet a crucial deadline, the answer to that key question could set the direction next week for U.S. equities next week as they sit near re...

Two of the loudest voices in the gun debate say it's up to voters now to make their position known to Congress. Click to Continue »

Sergio Garcia hit his drive into a tree at Bay Hill today.  But instead of taking a drop and moving on, he decided to climb the tree and play his ball as it laid. In this surreal video (via CBS Sports), Sergio climbs ...

Under mounting pressure, the Federal Aviation Administration hopes to announce that it will relax the rules for reading devices during takeoff and landing.

A little more than four months removed from steering President Barack Obama's reelection bid to victory, 2012 Campaign Manager Jim Messina opened up on Sunday...

Of course, we don't want the pilots using iPhones while flying.

Ford Motor Co. is taking heat for a series of ads it released in India showing caricatures of several celebrities behind the wheel of a Ford car with three women bound and gagged in the cargo bay.With critics declaring t...

The FT's Wolfgang Münchau is famous for his gloomy prognostications about the Eurozone, and he's made predictions in the past that the currency bloc would break apart. In a new piece he freely admits to having been wr...

LISBON (Reuters) - No matter how Cyprus's financial drama ends, its troubles show yet again that rich countries enfeebled by the great financial crisis remain a weak link in the world economy.