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REUTERS/Robert Galbraith The current opioid epidemic has plagued the entire US. But it has hit one state harder than the rest — West Virginia. West Virginia had the highest drug-overdose death rate in the US in 2014, ...

REUTERS/ Mick Tsikas Some market observers predict a global financial crisis in 2016–’17 — one just as serious, if not more so, than that of 2008–’09. With excess liquidity sloshing around global markets and Br...

Dear Liz: My wife and I both had excellent credit scores. Now mine are in the dump. I co-signed for a friend's daughter's school loan 10 years ago. I know now this was a bad mistake. I guaranteed $25,000. Now two things ...

Artist Scott Blake makes flip books without drawing a single line: instead, he uses a hole puncher. He makes patterns on a computer, prints them out, and then goes through the painstaking process of punching the holes an...

The University of Southern Mississippi has benefited in many ways from the research and development that occurs on campus. …

Goldman Sachs presents the problem, then the solution, for successfully investing in 2016's stock market. The industrial goods sector offers a good case example.

China's manufacturing activity was weaker than expected in April, according to a survey by an industry group. …

Trying to assess the valuation of a stock market is a difficult task. While there are a number of alternatives, famed investor Warren Buffett cited his favorite stock market valuation indicator in a 2001 interview with F...

(Reuters) — Yahoo Inc has shortlisted close to 10 bidders in the auction for its core Internet assets, including Verizon Communications Inc, with most offers involving cash rather than a combination with another compan...

The debt-swamped island's financial crisis is expected to force Washington into action.          

Reuters/Ana Martinez Puerto Rico is going to default.  In a television address made Sunday, Puerto Rico's governor Alejandro Garcia Padilla said the island's Government Development Bank (GDB) will not make a $422 milli...

Amsterdam-based design firm Studio Drift designed Shylights, a permanent installation at the Rijksmuseum that features silk-blooming, choreographed ceiling lamps. Produced by Jenner Deal Follow BI Video: On Twitter

NBC News Sen. Ted Cruz wouldn't answer whether he'd support Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump if he captures the party's nomination — even when the question was posed to him nine times in a row on Sund...

University of Pennsylvania / Scott Spitzer The wealthiest private colleges in America eclipse many corporate giants as financial powerhouses. The endowment for Yale University, for instance, is worth nearly twice as muc...

Flickr/Timothy Krause How do you keep your confidence up when things really aren't going your way? Stanford professor Maggie Neale, who teaches a high-stakes negotiation course,  says people with high aspirations gen...

Of the 1.2 billion people on Earth attempting to learn foreign languages, 800 million have chosen to study English, and they are probably not doing it to binge-watch House of Cards or read the collected works of Sir Wa...

Mars Lisa Schroeder has a pretty sweet job. For the past 16 years, Schroeder has worked for Mars Chocolate — a segment of the $33 billion Mars candy, petcare, and beverage company. Mars Chocolate produces 29 candy bran...

Tell Roger Williams that a multibillion-dollar plant for turning natural gas into liquid fuel near Pine Bluff sounds too good to be true, and he'll turn to history, engineering and finance to argue it's too good not to b...

Maysa Jalbout is working on two problems that many other foundation executives could never even imagine. She has a ton of cash to work with -- $1.1 billion -- but it won't be nearly enough. And that means that her focus ...

Iran's innovation economy is larger than most Westerners know.

Being your own boss is great - until the pressure, stress and neverending tasks get to you. So how do you work on your business without destroying yourself?

Over the past few days, these two beverage giants chimed in with first-quarter earnings that prove they aren't shying away from the battle for consumers as well as striving to meet changing demands