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William Nylander was scorned by many last season for not performing up to his six-year, $45 million contract. Now, the Maple Leafs are seeing a nice return on their investment.

Raheb Homavandi/Reuters The US and Iran's decades as adversaries started with the Iranian revolution in 1979 when students overran the US Embassy in Tehran while protesters chanted "Death to America." But the seeds of th...

Want to spend the most amount of money possible on your student loans? Well, here are the 5 worst ways to pay off student loans.

Google records your queries when you use the "Hey Google," wake word with its speakers. But for voice search, it records way more, like everything       

Capital Gains Tax? Yes, besides sales tax, excise tax, property tax, income tax, and payroll taxes, individuals who buy and sell personal and investment assets must also contend with the capital gains tax system. If you ...

Federal Reserve policymakers who last year were frequently at odds over where to set U.S. borrowing costs opened 2020 telegraphing confidence in the state of the economy and signaling broad agreement that monetary policy...

MANDEL NGAN / AFP Apple may have spent less on lobbying than its Silicon Valley peers, but the costs of doing business amid a raging trade war with China seem to be partly reflected in the company boss's executive compen...

Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for Palm Springs International Film Festival Alex Rodriguez was spotted taking pictures of Jennifer Lopez while she posed on the red carpet at the Palm Springs International Film Festival Awa...

'The Grudge' started 2020 with a relative whimper, with $5.35 million on Friday for a likely $13 million opening weekend.

The threat of an escalating conflict between the U.S. and Iran puts the Strait of Hormuz, a narrow waterway through which a fifth of the world's petroleum supply must move through, back in focus.

Chris Hondros/Getty Images Macy's is one of the oldest and largest department store chains in the US, with more than 500 locations around the country. We consulted shopping experts and various blogs and online reviews to...

Marc/Airbnb Rental sites like Airbnb and HomeAway offer up stays in everything from cabins to castles. Many of the castles are surprisingly affordable, especially if you bring a large group of friends. You can stay in me...

One of the world's largest gatherings of meteorologists is in Boston next week. Will weather spoil the 100th AMS meeting?

Amazon automatically records you whether you like it or not, with Apple it's opt-in. Google records audio and keystrokes       

The number of women directing movies in the top 100 has more than tripled over the past decade and peaked in 2019, but women still make up only a small fraction of all directors.

Michel Linssen/Redferns Two men who accused Michael Jackson of sexually abusing them as children in the documentary "Leaving Neverland" can now sue the pop star's companies following a ruling made in California on Friday...

TypingDNA, a startup leveraging AI to identify people by the way they type, has raised $7 million in venture capital from Gradient Ventures and others.

An independent survey was conducted among more than 750 decision makers in the UK to identify the specific growth-related challenges that companies are facing.

The video game industry changes all of the time, and so UT Austin is trying to change how it teaches video game design as well.

Amazon.com is considering opening stores in Germany, its second biggest market after the United States, the ecommerce company's head in the country was quoted as saying on Saturday.

Consider it a wake-up call. Stock-market investors shouldn't panic, but intensifying U.S.-Iran tensions bring home the potential for geopolitical turmoil to make for bumpier price action.

We would all like to take a vacation sometime. But many of us are too afraid to leave our business for very long, out of fear that it may not be able to survive without us always being there. But maybe a vacation is just...