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China rejects a shipping alliance aimed at saving the industry money, despite approval from the US and the EU.

Retired Marine Cpl. Kyle Carpenter is set to receive the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest award for bravery, on June 19. Carpenter will be the third Marine to be awarded the medal since the start of the wars in Iraq ...

Billboards and outdoor ads can get pretty repetitive after a while. But every now and then, a company will partner with an ad agency and create something magical and completely new. In 2013 alone, there were 158,868 bill...

In 1908, a young journalist named Napoleon Hill met with the industrialist Andrew Carnegie, one of the richest men to ever live, to discuss how he became so successful. Carnegie liked Hill so much that he decided to shar...

A committee of MPs questions the value and effectiveness of the equity loan scheme, drawing an angry response from ministers.

The above map shows the most liberal and most conservative towns in each state in America.  Political data analytics firm Clarity Campaign Labs provided the underlying data to Business Insider. The firm compiled the inf...

Each purchasing decision we make is actually quite dependent upon the context in which it is made.

A trans-Pacific free trade pact could be agreed upon early next year before U.S. presidential election politics get in the way, Australia's trade minister said Wednesday.

In a recent front page article, the Washington Post tells what it casts as the story of how Bill Gates, through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, used his fortune to promote adoption of the now-controversial Common ...

Drawn by demand for Cipla's medicines internationally and factories across India, Teva Pharma or Mylan may be suitors

Tesla could resume selling its electric cars directly to consumers if a new bill voted on by the state Assembly is recognized by the Senate and the New Jersey Governor.

The above graphic shows the largest company by revenue in every state. Created by Mike Simmons in collaboration with Broadview Networks, the map drew information from Hoover's — a Dun & Bradstreet company — database ...

The evacuation of the Smithfield Foods plant in Tar Heel on Tuesday followed the explosion of a 300,000-gallon water tank and a resulting wall of water that knocked out the…

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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid took to the Senate floor Wednesday to blast former Vice President Dick Cheney, after he and his daughter, Liz, published an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday criticizing Pres...

Mobile gaming will grow around the world as people in developing regions earn more and get more access to smartphones.

U.S. auto safety regulators—who have been raked over the coals by Congress for failing to detect a broad pattern of ignition defects in General Motors Co. cars—are turning up the heat on Fiat Chrysler Automobiles abo...

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“The seeds of great success are often right in front of you, hidden in the ashes of adversity.”     

Spain will not qualify for the World Cup's knockout stage after losing to Chile 2-0, the defending champion's second straight loss in the group stage. This pleased one Brazilian fan greatly, who gleefully held up his iPa...

After dueling bids, Men's Wearhouse completes $1.8B purchase of rival Jos A Bank

This post is in partnership with Fortune, which offers the latest business and finance news. Read the article below originally published atFortune.com. If U.S. District Judge Denise Cote needed a reminder that she backed...