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The Olympics officially kicked off on Friday night and the games are finally underway. The competition this year is hotter than ever. Literally. From skiing to ice hockey to biathlon, we rounded up the steamiest athletes...

    You love to scarf them down one after the other but what do you actually know about Cheetos? This brand of cheese-flavored, puffed cornmeal snack was invented in 1948, and since then its annual retail sales have gr...

(Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp is close to a deal to pay $1 billion to settle a U.S. criminal investigation into how it disclosed customers' complaints about unintended acceleration years ago, the Wall Street Journal re...

Philip Seymour Hoffman did not finish filming the last two installments in the blockbuster "Hunger Games" series before his death -- but digital technology may help filmmakers complete the job. Computer effects and camer...

The Museum of the City of New York has published a collection of photos from Edmund V. Gillon that capture street scenes in New York in the 1970s and 1980s. Gillon has published more than a dozen books on New York City, ...

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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A senior Iranian naval commander says his country has sent several warships to the Atlantic Ocean, close to U.S. maritime borders for the first time. The commander of Iran's Northern Navy Fleet, Adm...

Here's the finish line after Saturday's women's cross-country skiing event, the skiathlon 7.5 km classic + 7.5 km free. The three medalists, Norway's Marit Bjoergen, Sweden's Charlotte Kalla, and Norway's Heidi Weng, are...

He got eliminated before the finals of the slopestyle competition, but Russian snowboarder Alexey Sobolev is already one of the big winners of the Sochi Olympics. The 22-year-old painted his cellphone number in giant blu...

Google's stock is a gusher, and even Exxon can't cap it. The fast-growing tech juggernaut briefly nudged past Big Oil's biggest player on Friday to become the second-largest US company...

(Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp is close to a deal to pay $1 billion to settle a U.S. criminal investigation into how it disclosed customers' complaints about unintended acceleration years ago, the Wall Street Journal repo...

By Corrie Pikul You can't quit your day job (yet)...but you can make it a little less uncomfortable. 1. The pain that strikes at the front door. What you feel: A sharp pain at the base of your thumb and the inside of you...

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Vietnam's first McDonald's restaurant is opening on Saturday, marking the fast food chain's first venture into a new southeast Asian market in two decades. The restaurant, located in Ho Chi Minh City, will be the city's ...

The big corporate law firm Schulte Roth & Zabel no longer employs an associate named Samir Tabar, who's accused in a lawsuit of relentlessly harassing and terrorizing his ex-girlfriend, the American Lawyer reports. "M...

Across the US, millions of people are getting 1099-MISC forms. Of course, it’s a way for the IRS to make sure it gets paid the taxes owed. This is done by matching the 1099-MISC form you received and the one that your ...

After it failed last year, a measure that Georgia regulators say would prevent wildlife deaths during drought is making the rounds again in the Legislature.

The rates are at their lowest since before the recession, fuelling fierce competition between landlords and would-be homeowners.

An aide to Gov. Brown orders the Employment Development Department to hire workers and invest in new phone technology to improve service after months of glitches.SACRAMENTO — California has announced a sweeping overhau...

Islamic finance, which includes a proscription against borrowers paying interest to lenders, will grow internationally to more than $100 billion this year, after a difficult 2013. The issuance of sukuk, or shariah-compli...

A Florida county has spent more than $5 million over the past nine years throwing chronically homeless people in jail, when it could have spent considerably less finding them shelter. In its annual report on the state of...

Did you mean to leave your IRA invested in a money market fund?