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"I started this war killing Germans in Africa, now I'm killing Germans in Germany." After 2009's "Inglourious Basterds," Brad Pitt is back to killing Nazis in new movie "Fury," except this time it's a much more serious f...

Tel Aviv will introduce a network of sky-high cars by 2016, BBC reports. If successful, the prototype will become the basis for a larger, commercial transit system. The 500-meter loop of hovercraft rail is a collabora...

The Sunni Muslim extremist group ISIS has its own line of products for sale online.

When we examine "have" and "have-not" issues in the United States, we usually think of the digital divide or the enormous gap between the rich and the poor or the difference in resources of city schools and suburban scho...

Sexy marketing isn't helping retailers sell to teens anymore. So what gives? They're just putting it in the wrong place

"Daily Show" host Jon Stewart lampooned a recent series of awkward comments both Hillary Clinton and Vice President Joe Biden have made about their wealth in recent weeks. Stewart characterized the attempts by Clinton an...

Once again, executives involved in a pay-TV merger appeared on Capitol Hill to tell lawmakers why the merger should be approved. On Tuesday, AT&T and DirecTV brass testified before both...

Billionaire Paul Singer isn't buying Argentina's latest sob story. The hedge-fund mogul urged a Manhattan federal judge on Tuesday to deny the embattled country's request to delay a court order...

After a dizzying rally, real-estate investment trusts may be overheating. As investors flock to these shares in search of high payouts, some fund managers are worried that a repeat of last year's sharp selloff could be i...

The list of Finra's top earners will surprise you. Plus: Finra employees make double industry pay

Schedules a shareholder vote, discloses ongoing investigations of former father-son executive team.

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This post is sponsored by xAd. Let's say you’re at home watching "Game of Thrones" when you decide it's finally time to start reading the books. Pulling out your phone, you look up some critics' reviews and readers' r...

Buying a home overseas may seem like an unaffordable investment, but some places offer luxury at a bargain. With the help of Point2Homes, we've put together a list of some of pretty overseas properties that are available...

A powerful new World Cup-themed PSA seeks to link a team's tournament loss with an increase in domestic violence. Tender Education and Arts created this #StandUpWorldCup campaign and PSA in response to a study conducted...

The U.S. economy shrank 2.9 percent in the first quarter, indicating far greater weakness in the world's largest economy than the previous estimate of a 1 percent contraction, the government said on Wednesday. The weakne...

The Supreme Court blocked Internet streaming service Aereo from upending TV networks.           

The government is considering whether to sue banks and other mortgage servicers to recover its losses from alleged insurance kickbacks that may have cost government-controlled mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac h...

After decades of American jobs and money going to China, creating an outsized trade imbalance, the pendulum has started to occasionally swing in the other direction with increased Chinese investment in goods made in the ...

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Israeli startup Parko successfully raised $1.1 million in seed funding for its API, which uses crowdsourced data to help drivers find available parking spots in real time. SparkLabs, Global Ventures, OurCrowd, and Europe...

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