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Announced the same day as its path-breaking gay marriage decision, the Supreme Court?s ruling in Sekhar v. United States, addressing the definition of ?property? for purposes of an extortion prosecution under the Hobbs A...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- North and South Korea agreed Wednesday to restart operations at a jointly run factory park that Pyongyang shut down in April during a torrent of threats, the latest sign of easing animosity bet...

Markets have changed, and so should your investment strategy.

?How should we get started?? I?m asked that question all the time. It?s clear that by now, most marketers recognize the link between data-driven marketing and business value. But many remain stumped about how to actually...

MSCI Asia ex-Japan stock index on track for 10th day of gains; safe-haven yen pressured, oil prices stay soft

California has finally fixed an 1872 law that led a court to throw out a rape conviction on the basis that the female victim wasn't married at the time of her rape. Earlier this year, California's Second District Court ...

Financial planning for same-sex couples will be tricky for financial advisors and their clients as enormous opportunities and risks open up in the wake of the Supreme Court's decision declaring the federal Defense of Mar...

Downtown Detroit was hit by a power outage at around 1 p.m. today. Multiple buildings appear to have lost power including city hall, Detroit News is reporting. CBS Detroit reports that the Frank Murphy Hall of Justice a...

History is not on the side of people who make snide remarks about the United Kingdom as Marshal Philippe Petain, leader of French occupied Germany discovered in the 1940s, and as the Russian Government might also discove...

If you're a tax preparer, you've likely spent the past few days scrambling to file extended corporate returns before the 16th, because while you promised yourself you'd knock out the returns during the quiet days ...

A relative recently asked me, "Can I deduct the cost of the clothes I have to wear in my business?" I know the two words people hate to hear from attorneys are, "it depends." In tax analysis this expression is not a copo...

With the advent of wearable technology, companies will soon be able to better provide ads to customers based on their real-time activity. Because of this technology, new opportunities for capturing our customers' attenti...

 A lack of money is a big deal. You need to pay for electricity, you need to pay your rent or your mortgage payments, you have to buy bus and subway tickets or fuel for your car; you need to buy food; your kids need to ...

The Peabody Orlando hotel in Florida has entertained families for decades with its twice-daily parade of ducks through the lobby. But the hotel has been sold to Hyatt, and the tradition is about to change.

Popped collars, country club membership, private school diploma — they're all signs of preppiness. But where are you most likely to run into a prepster, or become one? Real estate blog Movoto has come up with a rankin...

Creative geniuses once ruled in Hollywood. Now the studios are being headed by strategic thinkers.

Last year Reuters filed a lawsuit against the University of California alleging that UC, by allowing Sequoia Capital and another prominent venture capital firm, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, to provide only partial i...

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Leading stocks often give you an opportunity to buy them at low-risk, alternative entry points before they break out into new highs. Buying them at these lower points allows you to have nice gains ahead of the breakout a...

Waiting until the end of the year to review progress on your business is a common but costly misstep.

Need a college degree? Just Google it! Google announces partnership with edX to offer an open-source platform for massively open online courses. Now anyone can create an online course.

"Rather than scrounging up loose change to release an album, artists are turning to their online fan base to help fund upcoming album releases. In the end, everybody wins." - Daniel McCarthy of The Music Bed