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I keep reading that people like me -- older white guys -- are angry about what is happening to their country. In recent years, their grievances have been voiced by Rush Limbaugh, Lou Dobbs, Bill O'Reilly and Glenn Beck. ...

There is still a considerable disparity in what men and women earn across the developed world. Research by the OECD has shown just how pronounced the gender pay gap really is. Defined as the difference between male and...

Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images What's it like to be raised by a "Tiger Mom"? It's something that Amy Chua's kids, 19-year-old Lulu Chua-Rubenfeld and her 23-year-old sister, Sophia, know intimately well.  The Chua-Rubenfe...

Hollis Johnson 1. Panera Bread redesigned restaurants to fix its 3 biggest problems The popular fast-casual cafe implemented the Panera 2.0 model in response to frequent complaints from customers about long wait times...

The history of the advertising world is replete with re-branded disasters. From Pepsi to Tropicana to Gap, or is it GAP? — there is no shortage of examples of brands, very large, well-known with tons of brand-equity i...

Facebook now lets anyone with an iPhone in the U.S. stream live video directly to their news feed.  This direct competitor to apps like Periscope is pretty simple to use. Here's how to share your lunch and your life wit...

What could be better than watching Warren Buffett in your living room on Sunday nights, doling out advice to Boy George?

State officials say Nevada gambling revenue was up 1 percent in calendar year 2015 compared with 2014. …

Thomson Reuters US regulators on Thursday approved a new once-daily pill for the liver-destroying hepatitis C virus made by Merck & Co Inc, which said it will sell the drug at a lower list price than its competitors. Th...

Puerto Rico plans to propose a debt exchange to investors at a Friday meeting, offering to swap existing bonds for two new types of securities to help the U.S. commonwealth alleviate its debt burden.

Junko Kimura/Getty Images Over the past year, global markets have been weighed down by concerns about China's economic growth, which sank to a 25-year low in 2015. That decline darkened the outlook of many U.S. companies...

After 10 years as a business owner, I encountered a specific kind of sexism this week that I've actually never come across before. We were in the final stages of interviewing a dev candidate for a job at my startup, Edga...

Intel announced eight executive promotions today, but seven of those are white and Asian men. The lone person who would qualify as a diverse candidate within that group is Christina Min, who was promoted to corporate vic...

As the virus continues to spread

FLINT, Mich. (AP) -- Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder says he wasn't aware that the state offered fresh bottled water for state employees in Flint starting in January 2015, although residents were told that tap water was safe t...

In 2012, scientists discovered a cheap and easy way of editing genes that determine the biological features of all living things, including humans.  The method is called Crispr-Cas9, and it exploits the defenses that b...

WASHINGTON

Department of Education puts firms using its logo 'on notice'

Consumers' outlook on the economy weakened slightly in January, according to the University of Michigan's monthly survey. The final consumer sentiment index was 92 for January. Economists had estimated a print of 93 f...

"Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare" On Thursday evening, FBI special agent David Chaves gave a presentation on insider trading at an event hosted by the New York Hedge Fund Round Table at the Penn Club of New York. Since ...

U.S. stocks opened higher Friday, despite signs of weak economic growth, on encouraging earnings news and higher energy prices. The government said Friday that growth in the U.S. economy slowed as consumers spent less, b...

(Reuters) - Chevron Corp reported its first quarterly loss in more than 13 years on Friday as the oil producer struggled to cope with plunging crude prices that are eroding profitability across all its divisions.