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Pope Francis has responded to critics who have called him a "Marxist" in a new interview with an Italian newspaper, saying Marxist ideology "is wrong" while simultaneously noting that much of what he wrote in his powerf...

An 18-year-old man has been arrested and charged in the brutal beating and rape of an elderly nun outside St. Titus Church in Aliquippa, Penn., CBS Local reports. Andrew Bullock, 18, of Aliquippa, is facing felony charge...

Primarq, a marketplace facilitator, soon may enable homeowners or buyers to raise money for a down payment, or build up enough equity to qualify for a less expensive mortgage rate.Major corporations raise capital by sell...

Grainger concludes that reducing cost of each project is the most effective way to increase R&D productivity, even if this makes decision-making along the way slightly worse.

TBWA\Chiat\Day's Carisa Bianchi set out to become a diplomat or spy. She ended up with a lifelong career in advertising, including stints on the Energizer, Sony PlayStation and Levi's accounts.The gig: Carisa Bianchi is ...

It's been more than six years since the monthly unemployment rate in Massachusetts has been higher than the U.S. average as a whole.

Last night, Justin Wolfers Tweeted a chart from Visualizing Economics' Catherine Mulbrandon showing Lorenz curves by income source: labor, capital, business and capital gains. It basically shows that different parts of t...

Click for sound.   The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is hosting its 2013 DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials December 21-23 in Homestead, Florida. Six teams will go head-to-head to build the ultimate di...

The mountain of refrigerators, cellphones, TV sets and other electrical waste disposed of annually worldwide is forecast to grow by a third by 2017, according to a U.N. study released Sunday.

Big-time investors gobbling up huge numbers of area's foreclosed homes — as the new reality of single-family rentals becomes more common after the mortgage meltdownBig-time investors are gobbling up thousands of houses...

From a mountainous region on the edge of the Amazon rainforest to coffee mugs in Flint, John Cherry and Teresa Villacorta are bringing a taste of Peru's to Genesee County.

A flurry of legal cases, investigations and leaked bank documents have drawn attention to the opaque movement of diamond-backed money.     

Boxer Manny Pacquiao Faces Both IRS and Philippine Tax Fights, and Two Big Tax Liens

Homebuilder Carmin Awadzi's client had a request. She wanted to include a basement room for rough-and-tumble play in her new home. Her five children needed a place to burn off energy in the winter on rolling trikes and z...

Tire-maker Michelin says it is recalling about 1.2 million tires sold in the U.S. because an increasing number are experiencing tread loss or rapid air loss.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Idaho farmer Robert Blair isn't waiting around for federal aviation officials to work out rules for drones. He and a friend built their own, outfitting it with cameras and using it to monitor his 1...

Nevada regulators are scheduled to vote on the sale of NV Energy to a company owned by billionaire Warren Buffett.

It has been approximately five years since we got out of the Great Recession. What have we observed in the economy since? We have seen a very slow pace of economic recovery as job creation has been lackluster and unemplo...

Chia brothers transform sign business into global exhibition brand

Returns, rewards, whatever you call them, most people want to make something off of the money or effort they provide to a venture. And it's human nature to try to get the greatest reward on the smallest input possible.

Donnel Baird's BlocPower seeks to provide jobs to young black men, while helping small businesses install solar power.

I was surprised that the Ninth Circuit's decision, last month, on Irwin Schiff's appeal of his conviction and sentence did not attract more attention.  Irwin Schiff could well be viewed as the grandfather of the contemp...