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The first African-American Supreme Court Justice was sworn in 46 years ago on Wednesday.  Nominated by President Johnson in 1967, Thurgood Marshall was instrumental in ending legal segregation as a civil rights lawyer. ...

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe takes a long-awaited decision to raise Japan's sales tax by 3 percentage points next year, placing the need to cut the nation's towering debt ahead of any risk to recent economic growth.

For many individuals, reinvesting dividends may be among the most obvious and automatic rules for building wealth, and with good reason – it can be an easy way to get more shares of the funds or company stock you alrea...

As media outlets flourish, and attention spans shrink to hashtag-sized dimensions, advertisers have had to get increasingly creative with how they deliver messages to the masses.

Wearable computing is one of the most excited trends in gadget tech today, and for good reason. Collecting data about our habits, from what we eat to where we go to lunch, will let us learn about our daily patterns and c...

Mississippi Power Co. says its Kemper County power plant won't be finished by the original May 2014 deadline.

Silk Road, an underground e-commerce site known for trafficking illegal drugs, has been shut down. Its alleged founder, Russ Ulbricht, aka "Dread Pirate Roberts" or "DPR," has been arrested. Silk Roaders are bumming. And...

Detroit on Tuesday defaulted on more than $600 million of general obligation bonds deemed unsecured by the city's emergency manager, a city spokesman said. The move marked the second bond default by the cash-strapped cit...

In The Age of Oversupply (Penguin Group, 2013), Daniel Alpert makes a compelling case that the United States and the world are stuck in a serious crisis of insufficient demand for the foreseeable future. According to Alp...

If your employer pays you severance when you terminate employment or later because you sue, is it for "rendering services?" Clearly it is pay and is subject to  income tax and withholding. But as you aren't actually re...

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The San Francisco bank allegedly failed to comply with customer-service reforms mandated by last year's $25-billion national mortgage settlement.New York's top prosecutor has decided to sue Wells Fargo & Co. over its all...

Nikkei falls 0.7%; SoftBank hits 13-1/2-year high

Maybe the government shutdown will wake the politicians up

Drug-starved Internet users were able to rely on Silk Road to get their fill of whatever vice they wanted until today, when the anonymous marketplace was seized and shut down by the FBI. But the Silk Road is just one of ...

Shareholders of Weight Watchers International (NYSE: WTW) looking to boost their income beyond the stock's 1.8% annualized dividend yield can sell the January 2016 covered call at the $55 strike and collect the premium b...

CHICAGO (AP) -- For millions of Americans trying to log in, the online insurance marketplaces created by the new health care law began with a stalled website, an error message or a menu that didn't work.     

NEW YORK (AP) -- Amazon's new Kindle Fire HDX tablet resembles Google's Nexus 7 in many ways -- from its light weight to its sharp display. Both tablets run a version of Google's Android operating system, and they even h...

Most people know what Twitter is, but many don't know how or why they should use it. Twitter has to prove to investors it can broaden its appeal, analysts say.SAN FRANCISCO — By all rights, Twitter should be wildly pop...

New York's website to allow the uninsured to shop for health insurance under the nation's new health care law has struggled under the surge of nearly 30 million hits in two days.

Family and friends never suspected Ross Ulbricht to be the alleged drug kingpin behind the notorious Silk Road marketplace.