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How I ended my homelessness. some I met staying in homeless shelters would actually find ways to go to jail so they would have a place to stay. Many I met at these places have been homeless for a very long time. Their so...

Authorities in Texas provided an update on their investigation into the fertilizer plant explosion in West Texas. The short story is that the cause of the fire is undetermined. The long story is that the investigation ha...

Diddy Appears on Downton Abbey

You can pick the perfect home, but not who you will be living next door to.

As the Crystal Symphony bore down on Hong Kong, the conclusion of its 16-day "Treasures of Southeast Asia" cruise from Singapore, The Hotel Detective made a list of the things that distinguished the ship and the brand. (...

If April seemed a bit on the cold side to you, you're not alone. The month was the 23rd coldest on record in the United States. Here's what winter looked like in 180 different US cities.

Today in show business news: Not many people watched the American Idol finale, The Voice is still going strong, and Pete Campbell takes to the stage.

The Financial Times became the latest news agency to fall prey to the Syrian Electronic Army, the hacking group which has claimed the social media scalps of the AP, The Onion, the BBC, and NPR, perhaps signaling that new...

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) -- Vermont's new aid-in-dying law, which allows doctors to prescribe lethal medication to terminally ill patients who request it, is set to take effect as soon as Gov. Peter Shumlin signs it on Monda...

The IRS official who revealed the IRS had inappropriately targeted conservative groups on Friday did so on purpose -- by asking a tax lawyer to ask her about it at American Bar Association tax section's annual meeting.

GRANBURY, Texas (AP) -- Gov. Rick Perry says the tornado-wrought devastation in a North Texas neighborhood is almost incomprehensible.

Now, when the Supreme Court has deemed corporations "people" under the First Amendment and when income and wealth are more concentrated at the top than they've been in over a hundred years, has enabled America's financia...

The IRS division responsible for flagging Tea Party groups has long been an agency afterthought, beset by mismanagement, financial constraints and an unwillingness to spell out just what it expects from social welfare no...

North Miami police are searching for two men who they say attacked and shot an ATM repair man.

Exactly a year after Facebook made its disappointing debut as a public company, another less-heralded tech firm held its initial public offering but with opposite results. Tableau Software soared in its New York Stock Ex...

After the departure of two Fusion-io founders last week members of a discussion group I attend shared their insights. The one I found most interesting was written by Jeff Thermond, Entrepreneur-in-Residence of Xseed Capi...

On Thursday, bank-basher Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) slammed several bills headed for the House floor that would severely weaken Wall Street reform. The Dodd-Frank Act, the 2010 law aimed at preventing another financ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- An Arkansas law banning most abortions 12 weeks into a woman's pregnancy won't take effect while a legal challenge is pending, a federal judge ruled Friday.

Man who raped and strangled his neighbour in Sydney boarding house, then threw body into a canal, sentenced to 45 years.

Three teenagers face sex assault charges after they raped a 12-year-old girl at gunpoint and posted a video of the December attacks on Facebook, prosecutors said.

Seattle-based BBC Easy provides automated borrowing base certificates for small and medium sized businesses. With asset-based lending becoming increasingly popular for small business, founders James Walter and Corey Ross...

When, in 2006, the website The Smoking Gun released a secret CIA memo documenting prisoner organizing strategies at Guantanamo Bay, the FBI took notice. Now the site has posted details of the ensuing 44-month-long invest...