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It is an extreme understatement to say times have changed in the U.S. over the last 50 years. Fifty years ago, smoking was the definition of cool. Being skinny wasn't the ideal, but instead what you tried to avoid. Women...

PHOENIX -- Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer has built a political career in standing up to the federal government over everything from immigration to health care....

Warren Buffett says he knows the biggest challenge President Obama will be facing in his second term: Congress. Though the billionaire investor says he thinks...

Alcoholism and other chemical dependencies are the Trojan Horse of the family business. When someone is working in a company there is little to no tolerance for alcoholic symptoms. The...

Cheap food disgusts us, but many of the posh alternatives are just as likely to put you off your dinner We worry too much about food in this country. That's probably why we throw so much away. This wasn't always the case...

A handful of vaunted brands clearly benefit from print, but most ad agencies eschew it. Why?

Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt's daughter Sophie has posted a lengthy account with photos of their recent trip to North Korea. She describes deep government control of the nine-person delegation's visit and North...

Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) made headlines Sunday morning by promising that Senate Democrats will write and pass a full tax and spending bill by the March 1 deadline for the next budget. "It's going to be a great opportu...

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Google chairman Eric Schmidt attracted headlines recently for visiting North Korea, but he had been shy to talk about it. Today he finally opened up about the trip in a carefully worded Google+ post. His daughter had som...

As he revels in his second public inauguration, the president knows his legacy lies at the end of a number of perilous paths Barack Obama was officially sworn in as president for a second term at noon on Sunday, in a Whi...

WASHINGTON -- Senate Democrats intend to approve a budget for the first time in almost four years, a prominent lawmaker said Sunday, but he said...

The prospect of advancing to the Super Bowl has injected every detail of the NFC Championship Game with intensity. Case in point: Falcons defensive back Thomas DeCoud made a solid but unspectacular play by breaking up a ...

Not long after Juan Gallardo Thurlow took over PepsiCo Inc. (PEP)'s Mexican bottling and distribution operations in 2011, the shares of his soft-drinks company, Organizacion...

Treaty amendment should not wait until 2015 - and Labour should co-operate, in the spirit of one-nation politics It is a reflection of disarray both within his own party and in the coalition that David Cameron has virtua...

Subway's been taking a whole lot of heat over the past few days after a photo of an 11-inch "footlong" sub went viral. Lots of angry customers felt like they were getting short changed out of that mysterious missing inch...

Boeing is hoping to quickly find and discover the issue that's caused some of the lithium ion batteries in its Dreamliner jets to catch fire, and persuade regulators like the FAA to let them start flying again after they...

The Atlanta Falcons were able to take an early lead on their first drive with this 46-yard pass from Matt Ryan to Julio Jones: Please follow Sports Page on Twitter and Facebook. Join the conversation about this story

Paul Krugman is taking issue with his Nobel Prize-winning colleague's argument about income inequality. Krugman, responding to a column by Joseph Stiglitz arguing that inequality...

The NFC Championship Game between the 49ers and Falcons is about to start in Atlanta. Even though Atlanta is the #1 seed and has home field advantage, the 49ers are favored to win after dismantling the Packers last week....

The UK's big four banks are facing an extra £1bn bill for mis-selling Payment Protection Insurance, taking the total beyond £11bn.