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Man rappelling in Zion National Park in Utah dies after getting stuck upside down

By 2019 the mining industry will need 78,000 new U.S. workers Bloomberg did a story yesterday with an eye-catching headline, reporting that recent graduates of the relatively obscure South Dakota School of Mines & Te...

Jeff*, like me, is a writer, a speaker, and the head of a consulting company. As far as I can tell, he’s professional, well respected, capable, honest, and has a popular following. Someone we both know has asked u...

There’s no denying it, we’re a nation of burger guzzlers. 50 percent of Americans enjoy a burger at least once a week. Over the course of the year we’ll collectively wolf down over 13 billion burgers...

Amish men and women who attacked their neighbours by cutting their hair and beards will face long jail terms.

Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers praises his side's youngsters after their 5-3 win over Young Boys in the Europa League.

Larry Ellison Oracle's latest results show a company in transition. Overall sales were basically flat at 1%, to $10.9 billion (GAAP). And within those figures is the tale of two Oracles. Hardware sales fell off a cliff, ...

President Obama will win the popular vote, based on forecasting models of 20 political scientists.

Prestwick airport is closed after heavy rain flooded the runway, and is not expected to reopen until Friday morning.

Move that saw one US-backed governor fired is meant to improve governance and clamp down on corruption.

A Pittsburgh-area couple faces charges of conspiracy after selling a neighbor's Rottweiler puppy on Craigslist for $50 after the dog wandered onto its property.

Understanding Negative Amortization Mortgage Loans Potential borrowers need to understand the ramifications of negative amortization mortgage loans (“Neg Am”), both good and bad. First, understand that negati...

It must be awkward when you've declared someone dead and then they not only show up alive, they show up with lawyers. A Texas judge has granted an injunction at least temporarily halting officials' plans to purge 77,0...

WASHINGTON -- Vendors attending the National Association of Convenience Stores' trade show in Las Vegas next month should leave their synthetic drugs at home, according to a friendly reminder from the NACS director of sa...

Once again, we're all spun out. Mitt Romney's appearance last night in the Univision / Facebook presidential candidates' forum produced a lot of policy and electoral strategy soundbites to discuss today, but instead, the...

An online post with a picture of a gun and a threat of violence prompted police and officials with the Issaquah School District to close Skyline High School today in Sammamish, Wash. Shortly after 9 p.m. Wednesday, an an...

The iPhone 5 The market works in mysterious ways. This morning, Skyworks Solutions, which makes chips used in the Apple iPhone and other mobile devices, inched up expectations for the September quarter. The company no...

Police appeal for information following reports of an alleged sex attack on a four-year-old boy at an Asda supermarket.

From ProPublica's Abrahm Lustgarten:On a cold, overcast afternoon in January 2003, two tanker trucks backed up to an injection well site in a pasture outside Rosharon, Texas. There, under a steel shed, they began to unlo...

When it comes to grappling with the effects of climate change, insurance companies could be on the verge of failing the very people they're meant to protect. According to a new report from Ceres, a sustainabili...

Government restrictions on religion around the world were highest in the Middle East and North Africa, particularly in the period before the Arab Spring uprisings, a Pew study found.

My interview with the creator and executive producers of "New Girl," in which they speak in-depth about what Season 2 holds for Jess, Schmidt, Nick, Winston and Cece, is here. But I've also got a lot of details, some of ...