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Many of President Obama's proposals for cutting college costs, unveiled Thursday, are likely to face strong resistance from lawmakers. But at least one idea -- that schools introduce three-year degrees and other accelera...

While to an outsider it might seem like some venture capitalists choose the sector they are going to invest in by throwing darts at a dartboard, the reality is that picking a sector is much more complicated, and calculat...

Army Maj. Nadal Hasan, the accused Fort Hood shooter whose trial entered closing arguments today, seems poised to become the first person to receive the death penalty from the military in more than half a century. It may...

Drugs. Those illegal mind-altering poisons. Can you believe people actually do these things? Believe it. And it's not just the laypeople who are using. There are plenty of brilliant heavyweights in the science and techno...

The Snake River Pale Ale will flow in the Blue Heron Lounge, and the Grand Tetons will loom grandly, but otherwise this year's gathering of central bankers in Jackson Hole, Wyo., will have little in common with the momen...

The escalating role policy makers are playing in the foreign-exchange market is injecting new uncertainty into financial markets.

Last week, billionaire investor Carl Icahn Tweeted that he had a large stake in Apple and had talked to Tim Cook. During the final hours of the trading session, Icahn's Tweets had added more than $17 billion to Apple's m...

Morgan Stanley analysts Peter Richardson and Joel Crane are out with a post-FOMC minutes update on what's going on in the gold market. Richardson and Crane say gold has already priced in an announcement by the Federal Re...

Kanye West appeared on his girlfriend Kim Kardashian's mom's talk show "Kris" Friday and revealed the first ever photo of baby North West: Jenner then tweeted the photo: Meet North West. #WatchKris pic.twitter.com/QTNJ90...

Beginning on August 26th, the US Open will need to feed over 700,000 people over the course of just 15 days. It's the world's highest-attended annual sporting event, and it's also one of the most high-brow. The USTA Bill...

In the UPS memo explaining why the company was ending health-care coverage for working employee spouses was a finding, based on "market data," that 35% of the companies it examined will join them in the practice next yea...

The latest high-tech disruption in the financial markets ratchets up the pressure on Nasdaq and other electronic exchanges to take steps to avoid future breakdowns and manage them better if they do occur.

When top officials at the Federal Reserve want to understand the Chinese financial system, they meet Charlene Chu.

One side likens the other to North Korea and promises "hell will freeze over" before it surrenders. Its adversary speaks darkly of "abhorrent" deeds and an "environmental crime."

The commodities regulator is completing a road map it will use to develop rules aimed at taming the practice of computer trading.

A Colorado company developing a spaceship to take astronauts to the International Space Station has run the craft through a series of tests at a NASA facility in California.

Today's advice comes from our interview with Nathan McNeill, co-founder of Bomgar, an IT support company: "When you're considering a new career opportunity, evaluate the people with whom you'll be working in addition to ...

If you've ever wondered about what your spouse isn't telling you -- especially about money -- then

These entrepreneurs found a captive audience with a little time on its hands and a willingness to read.

The U.S. dollar sticks to its upward trend, rising modestly with the Federal Reserve's annual gathering in Jackson Hole, Wyo., in focus.

Proponents of hyperbaric oxygen therapy as a treatment for autism argue that the controversy around it is "political, not scientific." But that's not actually the case.

Detroit appears to be in hospice. The city's bankruptcy in July unleashed a torrent of commentary on the origins and causes of its decline. It could have been the cold. No universities. It could have been corruption. No ...