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Thomson Reuters Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, and Jill Stein have all answered 20 questions from the website sciencedebate.org about science. Particularly interesting are their answers to this question (emphasis mine): ...

A 5.2% increase, to $56,500, is accompanied by a steep decline in the poverty rate.

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John Stumpf was coasting toward a carefully planned retirement. But the outcry over sham accounts at the San Francisco bank has put him in a precarious position as he testifies in front of Congress next week.

Stripe announced on Tuesday that it has acquired Tonic, an app development and prototyping service, in a move meant to shore up its developer offering. While financial terms of the deal weren’t disclosed, it was reveal...

The Insider Picks team writes about stuff we think you'll like. Business Insider has affiliate partnerships so we may get a share of the revenue from your purchase. Hamilton BeachYou've probably heard that "breakfast i...

Huntington Bancshares in Columbus, Ohio, is wasting no time capitalizing on its purchase of FirstMerit in Akron, Ohio.

PNC Financial Services Group wants to sell its stake in BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager, a deal that could fetch about $12 billion.

The San Francisco-based bank has been thrown into a harsh spotlight since regulators said it created 2 million accounts customers didn't ask for.

The US Geological Survey (USGS) estimates that millions of earthquakes occur every year, but only one of them will be a "great earthquake" -- that is, one with a magnitude of 8.0 or above. Here are where all the "great ...

Jay Z's artist-owned music service has been streaming red ink, according to filing by its former parent company. Tidal, the streaming service Jay Z acquired last year from Sweden's Aspiro, lost $28 million in 2015 -- or ...

Wells Fargo Chairman and CEO John G. Stumpf said Tuesday that he will answer questions over millions of illegal accounts at a Senate hearing next week

Larry Downing/Reuters The US housing market is healthy, but some market participants worry it may be starting to heat up too much. We think that’s a mistake—and an opportunity. That’s because mortgages today have l...

Apple could completely transform the world of computing by making most of its products obsolete.

Screenshot / YouTube Amazon.com has set a standard for delivering online orders that other companies have struggled to meet. On the positive side for other digital retailers, their shipping times have been steadily impr...

REUTERS/Mike Segar When buildings collapse killing hundreds – or thousands – of people, it’s a tragedy. It’s also an important engineering problem. The 1995 collapse of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Ok...

The NCAA's decision to pull championship games out of North Carolina this academic year will cost the state an estimated $19 million in lost economic activity, primarily in Greensboro and …

Apple/Getty/Business Insider Billionaire businessman Mark Cuban said Apple "needed" the release of the newly-revealed iPhone 7, even if "it wasn't revolutionary."  The owner of the NBA's Dallas Mavericks and star of A...

Comma.ai George Hotz is known for not holding back. Hotz got famous as a teen hacker with a talent for breaking into devices like the original iPhone and PlayStation 3. Now he's got a self-driving car startup, Comma.ai,...

Skeptics say these popular funds are poised for a fall. But that argument ignores their main benefit.

For First Foundation, the government-backed program should help address a recent CRA exam's criticism that it has "poor penetration among businesses of different revenue sizes."

Disruptive new email apps are targeting businesses and power users, rather than the mass market. Disruptive new email apps are targeting businesses and power users, rather than the mass market. It's hard to believe that ...