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Fox's music competition American Idol maybe should switch to the drama series awards categories with all the behind-the-scenes drama on the show. There has been another wave of rumors and speculation over the past 12 hou...

Whenever a prominent professional athlete files for bankruptcy, there's always a chorus of armchair financial experts wondering how such a thing could happen and talking about how they would have invested those millions ...

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The story of the first death from China's new bird flu, dubbed H7N9, was broken by an employee at China's Hospital No. 5, in Shanghai, over China's twitter-like social network Weibo. The employee seemed to be upset becau...

A new study from the Cleveland Clinic research group headed by Stanley Hazen offers more evidence in support of the hypothesis that TMAO (trimethylamine-N-oxide) may play a role in the development of heart disease. The n...

For a few surreal minutes, a mere 12 words on Twitter caused the world's mightiest stock market to tremble.

Companies in the video games industry have begun releasing earnings reports for the latest quarter. Here's a look at selected companies that make or sell video games or machines.

(Reuters) - The Federal Aviation Administration said United Parcel Service should pay a $4 million civil penalty for not complying with certain rules on maintaining and operating its aircraft.

It's time for another round of scrutiny over the Obama administration's clean-energy programs. On Wednesday, House lawmakers held a fractious hearing over federal loans that had been made to struggling electric-car manuf...

Ford Motor Co. said Wednesday that its net income had improved 15 percent in the first quarter to $1.6 billion as record results in North America compensated for losses in...

Seemingly intractable long-term unemployment has become a national emergency that requires new and creative steps if it's to be reversed before it does permanent damage, several high-profile economists warned Congress on...

The BlackBerry Q10 and Samsung's Galaxy S4 are among the latest smartphones going on sale in the U.S. soon. Here are the technical details on those devices, along with other major ones out over the past several months.

H&R Block says the Internal Revenue Service has finished processing most returns affected by a software glitch.

French fry-stuffed sandwiches are a real phenomenon, and as those familiar with them will tell you, they're fabulously indulgent. Consider the fry-laden sandwiches from Pittsburgh's...

Have you ever wanted to create a successful startup? Maybe you have the design chops, the cool sense of style and the ability to get others excited about trends in technology, but can't find that perfect idea. Something ...

However, this mess isn't necessarily Google's fault. A quick perusal of old newspaper articles and blog posts shows iProvo was a financial disaster long before the search giant came to town with its gigabit service and i...

Much to the delight of anti-abortion activists, President Barack Obama will no longer deliver the keynote address at Planned Parenthood's gala in Washington, D.C. Thursday night. White House Press Secretary Jay Carney to...

Imagine a checking account where you can pay your bank whatever fee you think is fair. That's roughly the idea behind GoBank's pay-what-you-wish checking. But will the strategy be successful in attracting young, mobile-c...

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(Reuters) - Emergency Medical Services Corp, the largest U.S. provider of ambulance services, has selected underwriters for a $750 million initial public offering, two people familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.

On the eve of the 2013 NFL Draft, we took a look at what some of the most notorious busts ever are up today. Some flamed out of the league and fell on hard times. But to our pleasant surprise, many of the most infamous d...

Federal regulators accused Capital One and two of its executives of low-balling millions of dollars in auto loan losses suffered during the financial crisis.