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The executive dispatched to investigate Volkswagen scandal appears to have been involved in same since 2007, reports suggest

GUEST: 2016 was a huge year for bots, with major platforms like Facebook launching bots for Messenger, and Amazon and Google heavily pushing their digital assistants. Looking forward to 2017, we asked 21 bot experts, ent...

One lesson of the health bill debacle was that the unpopularity of the status quo does not guarantee a workable coalition in favor of any particular reform. The President is likely to discover that fulfilling his trade p...

By taking control of her networking fears, women & money financial expert Manisha Thakor has built a vibrant investment advisory firm.

The Trump administration announced on Tuesday its latest effort to make life more difficult for anyone--citizen or noncitizen--who wishes to travel to and from the United States. As of right now, passengers on directs fl...

Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney on Sunday said that he has "no idea" why Republicans couldn't get enough members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus to support their bill to repeal and replace...

Roman Cho/BN Ranch In 1969, Bill Niman bought his first ranch, an11-acre plotwith pigs and chickensthat roamed freely,for $18,000. Over the next four decades, that ranch grew to several hundred acres, and he built up his...

Millions of gallons of raw sewage and untreated runoff have poured into the United States' second-largest estuary since a massive sewage treatment plant experienced equipment failures that forced it to …

REUTERS/Danny Moloshok Elon Musk is one of the most accomplished tech leaders in the world. You'd think this guy never sleeps. But it turns out, he does in fact sleep! In a Reddit AMA from 2015, the Tesla Motors and Spac...

Democratic Gov. Gina Raimondo is meeting with business and community leaders to discuss the state's economy and ways to develop it. Santander Bank and the Greater Providence Chamber of Commerce …

Connecticut Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro has scheduled a meeting with families who rely on federal heating aid, and plans to call on Congress to shield the program from President Donald Trump's …

Since hitting a record-low of $177 in January 2015, Bitcoin is up almost 600%. On March 2, 2017, it reached a new high of $1,268 per unit--thus surpassing the price of an ounce of gold for the first time ever.

OPEC and its oil exporting ally Russia could feel pressure to extend or deepen output cuts now that most of the post-November gains have faded.

Flying Army bombers off a Navy aircraft carrier, U.S. forces struck a symbolic blow to the heart of the Japanese Empire nearly 75 years ago. The daring mission, known as …

Municipalities that are collecting substantially lower property taxes than they used to from big-box stores must overcome opposition from business interests and their allies in the Legislature to tilt the …

Municipalities that are collecting substantially lower property taxes than they used to from big-box stores must overcome opposition from business interests and their allies in the Legislature to tilt the …

Dear John: I had a $1,200 co-payment on surgery at NYU hospital, $78 of which went to NY state for sales tax -- although I don't think they called it that. I was too preoccupied with the surgery to remember the name they...

Dear John: Here's the background to the big Medicare and insurance rip-off that Congress must address. Without getting too complex, doctors "code" visits so that they get paid for services they've provided. Your first-ev...

Uber is suspending its entire self-driving car program while it investigates a serious crash of one of its vehicles in Arizona. Uber confirmed the accident after a photo was posted on Twitter showing an Uber SUV Volvo on...

China's rulers are planning for the world's biggest megacity with an estimated population of 130 million and the size of New England.

Ethics experts have questioned whether Trump violated the lease of the Trump International Hotel

Once the darling of the U.S. natural gas business, the legendary Haynesville shale play is awakening once again.