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Ex-Blackhawks center Alexei Zhamnov's former Lincoln Park mansion on market again; philanthropist Deborah Bricker lists Gold Coast mansion for $7.85 millionEx-Blackhawks center Alexei Zhamnov's former Lincoln Park mansio...

The crowd of social media sites chasing Facebook have made strides in growing their U.S. user bases over the past year. Pinterest and Google+ are perhaps the biggest revelations. The latest data from comScore from March ...

Jennifer Lopez was in the middle of an in-studio radio interview with Washington D.C.'s Hot 99.5 when one of her "people" interrupted to hand her a cell phone. The call was good news -- J.Lo found out she got cast in a m...

Vanguard founder John Bogle says a uniform fiduciary standard is long overdue.

Have you ever thought, "Chipotle's serving method is great, but sometimes I just want eastern cuisine instead of a burrito?" Well, you're in luck -- especially if you live in LA or DC. Chipotle (CMG) opened its first Sho...

Raymond James lands a $435M team from Morgan Stanley.

Traces of an escape tunnel have been uncovered at the site of an infamous Nazi death camp in Poland, according to news reports. Archaeologists say the passageway, found 5 feet (1.5 meters) below the surface, spanned 32 f...

It's easy to see a great image, and then click on to the next. But behind every great image is a photographer, an actual human being. And they're not always assigned to weddings and rooftop bar parties. War in Libya, Syr...

A Supreme Court decision Thursday barring patents on human genes will likely do little - if any - harm to biotech companies that research and market tests for genetic abnormalities. That's because the other part of the l...

Musical artist Chris Brown played basketball at a Los Angeles gym with Detroit Pistons center Andre Drummond recently and made Vine magic. Vine is basically Instagram for video. The video plays like a PSA for defense gon...

Recent comments from prolific National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden have caused alarm in the intelligence community that he may defect to China, reports ABC. Snowden recently said China was under a tidal wave of...

Jim Rogers fears the worst for Japan. In an interview with Fusion MarketSite, the emerging markets and commodities guru says there is no way Japanese PM Shinzo Abe's growth policies can possibly succeed -- there are alre...

Storms have been pummeling the Midwest this week, bringing tornado warnings, heavy rain, and thunderstorms to the region. There's even talk of the storm system spawning a derecho, a huge, fast-moving storm that brings ra...

The worst-case scenario is Isiah Thomas, of course. But the worst-case scenario in everything is generally Isiah Thomas. Hiring a Hall of Fame point guard as a coach, despite how difficult it can be for those with a grea...

As a language learner, you'll not only become a more conscious thinker and listener who can communicate clearly and think creatively, but you'll also gain the most significant benefit of multilingualism: a broader, more ...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Eli Lilly and Co. said Thursday that it stopped a mid-stage clinical trial of an experimental Alzheimer's disease drug because of potential side effects on patients' livers.

This is an (admittedly huge) list of words that supposedly cause the NSA to flag you as a potential terrorist if you over-use them in an email. We found this on Reddit, where James Bamford, a veteran reporter with 30 yea...

At stake is whether the phone is yours, or Apple's. Whether your experience of your Apple technology is of core importance to Apple, or whether the company's desire to control the user interface and push its own products...

UP ONE DAY: Good news about hiring and spending helped send the U.S. stock market sharply higher Thursday. All 10 industry groups within the S&P 500 rose, led by retailers and other consumer-discretionary companies.

Deboning and cooking a whole fish is not an easy task. It requires a precise hand and a delicate touch. We visited top New York Chef Laurent Tourondel of the Arlington Club Steak House for an expert demonstration. Watch ...

"Most of what happens in social commerce is that the larger companies are looking at social opportunities thru the prism of the past," Steve Case explains. "They have the view that it's ancillary, a curiosity, an extra."

In the digital dating world, one of the hottest new entrants is Tinder. And fellow dating app OKCupid developed a little crush.