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TASS via Associated Press Fidel Castro, the former Cuban leader who died Friday night at the age of 90, once requestedthat the leader of the Soviet Union consider launching a nuclear strike against the US in the event th...

Gregory Shamus/Getty Images The Ohio State-Michigan matchup on Saturday was the most-anticipated game of the regular season with both Big Ten conference and national championship implications on the line. While the Bucke...

Wikimedia Commons The CIAdeclassified scores of articles from Studies in Intelligence, The Agency's internal journal on "historical, operational, doctrinal, and theoretical aspects of intelligence." One undated article s...

The IRS targeted certain small captive insurance arrangements that take advantage of I.R.C. Section 831(b) and the ability of the captive to exclude from income a certain amount of premiums earned each year. The IRS iden...

The coffee shop ruling is a common problem in the EO world. Can you take a business activity and give it enough of an overlay of religious, educational, or charitable activity to then conclude that is is operated primari...

Activists of the Dakota Access Pipeline say they will deny a federal order to leave the land they are protesting on. The $3.8 billion pipeline is earmarked to transport 470,000 barrels per day of crude from Bakken oil fi...

Online sales in the U.S. surged on Black Friday for what has traditionally been the biggest shopping day of the year for brick-and-mortar retailers.

Demand is up for Hawaiian Electric Co.'s only solar rooftop program for homeowners. By mid-November, 322 applications had been filed for the self-supply program that allows homeowners with rooftop solar …

One of Nebraska's largest farms will be up for auction later this week. The Omaha World-Herald reports ( ) the Thomas Land Co. holds 28,645 acres of ranch and farmland …

Solar has generally been a difficult business, and that isn't looking to change under President-elect Donald Trump. Tesla officially acquired SolarCity in a deal worth roughly $2 billion on Monday. Prior to the sharehold...

What's the deal with carbohydrates? Should you eat them or cut them out entirely? Michelle Adams-Arent, a sports nutrition consultant, explains how to eat carbs so that you still get the best body composition. Follow Tec...

Carlo Allegri/Reuters In his first address since his victory speech— a two-and-a-half minute YouTube video posted November 21 — President-elect Donald Trump dove right into the issue of trade. On his first day in off...

It was a quick lesson on the perils of revealing too much online. There are many Facebook accounts with another person's picture on it, and people think they have met …

Finish the year strong.

Only time will tell whether the U.S. government will remain a leader in confronting climate change, but corporations are already making clear their determination to curb carbon emissions.        

Silicon Valley Bank, a bank that offers a range of financial services tailored towards technology and life science businesses, is considering whether to remove names from job candidates' résumés in a bid to prevent unc...

Shannon Stapleton Investors have generally been “risk on” since Donald Trump’s victory on 8 November. Are they right? Most investors seem to be primarily focused on President-elect Trump’s “Goldilocks” mix of...

Bankers are raising hell for bigger bonuses in another rough year for Wall Street revenues and employment. Average bonuses are forecast by Johnson Associates to be 5 percent to 10 percent smaller in 2015, down for a seco...

Dear John: Which party do you hold responsible for the national debt? When Ronald Reagan entered the White House, total national debt, from George Washington to Jimmy Carter, was $879 billion. Eight years later, it stood...

Blame easy credit for more consumers trading in cars worth less than what they owe on them        

This Trump market rally is gathering steam -- and it's fueled by growing confidence among wealthy investors that the US now has the world's greatest investment opportunities. The Dow Jones industrial average is up 3.8 pe...

Is it possible that all of the emphasis on "newer" marketing--coping with big data, social media, digital, and sophisticated analytics--is preventing marketers from getting the basics right? To explore this topic further...