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I want to take a moment to salute Andrew Mason, the co-founder and now former CEO of Groupon. Whatever else one thinks of his tenure, Mason set a new standard for exiting a job with grace, humor and a commendable lack of...

Las Vegas Strip Shooting Suspect Arrested in L.A.

A tribute to those we lost in 2013.

US soldier pleads guilty in WikiLeaks case and faces 20 years; wanted to expose US 'bloodlust'

5 Things We Hope Dennis Rodman Learned About North Korea

FORT MEADE, Maryland (Reuters) - The U.S. Army private accused of providing secret documents to the WikiLeaks website pleaded guilty on Thursday to misusing classified material he felt "should become public," but denied ...

NASA's Curiosity rover made it all the way to Mars without major setbacks, but now a computer glitch has stopped the robotic vehicle in its tracks. The malfunction was detected Wednesday night, causing corrupted data in ...

Forbes billionaire Alisher Usmanov sold his stake in London-based Mail.ru, Russia's leading free email service, pocketing a cool $532 million in the deal.

The Illinois High School Association has let Chicagoland Jewish High School know that it doesn't have to make a federal case out of when its boys basketball team takes the floor for the Class 1A championship. From the Ch...

On this week's episode of A Movie & An Argument, With Alyssa Rosenberg & Asawin Suebsaeng, we discuss (scroll down for audio): Retired NBA star Dennis Rodman's four-day trip to North Korea this week. Last Sunday's Oscars...

Investors in gold-based mutual funds and ETFs like the SPDR Gold (GLD) continued their slide into the abyss last month, according to fund trackers at EPFR Global in Cambridge, Mass.

Nothing says vacation like getting elbow deep in a bloody pig carcass. At least not for the growing number of travelers looking to add butchery to the repertoire of culinary skills they've picked up around the country (o...

Warren Buffett began his annual letter to shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway by calling 2012 a "subpar" year.

Why does a lifelong jazz pianist who has never been able to read a musical note  suddenly take piano lessons?  Why does a business executive who has already risen to enviable levels with his or her industry decide ...

Former catcher and current St. Louis Cardinals manager Mike Matheny is in the news for his opinion on catchers blocking home plate, and generally when an article begins with a sentence like "former player and current man...

For the first time since it launched its limited edition Métiers d’Art collection, Vacheron Constantin dedicated this year’s series to the fairer sex. The Métiers d’Art Florilège trilogy pre...

The Department of Justice filed a brief today in the case of a controversial California ballot initiative that defined marriage as between one man and one woman, asking the Supreme Court to affirm a lower court decision ...

Some things are better kept separate, but the universe manages to combine them anyway.

The following post was published on the K@W website on February 27, 2013.

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II has canceled a planned trip to Wales because she is experiencing symptoms of gastroenteritis, a Buckingham Palace spokeswoman said Friday.

Warren Buffett is throwing a new wrinkle into Berkshire Hathaway's annual meeting.

In the early 1990s, in the aftermath of the 1990-91 recession, the outcry to politicians was “It’s the economy, stupid!” With the economy currently recovering, but anemically, an apt cry-out might be �...