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Ronda Rousey is the best female MMA fighter in the world. She's also a model, a trash-talker, and an Olympic medalist. She has everything it takes to be a mainstream sports star, and tonight she'll headline the first eve...

Earlier this month a mathematician working with the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search, found the biggest prime number ever -- 17 million digits long -- 2 ^ 57,885,161 minus 1. The internet got super hyped up about thi...

Increasing the minimum wage to $9 an hour and tying it to the cost of living will not, on its own, lift the country out of its economic doldrums. But it will definitely lift millions of Americans out of poverty, stimulat...

Some Poland Spring water bottles may be contaminated by gasoline, the New Hampshire Department of Health warned in a consumer advisory published this week. According...

The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing two huge gay marriage cases this term, including a fight over a Clinton-era law that bars the federal government from recognizing same-sex marriages. Obama's relatively gay-friendly admi...

Account Management Assistance offers to reduce credit card interest rates, but satisfied customers are scarce.

The Drive4COPD 300, the first race of the NASCAR Nationwide Series season, was today. It ended with a big crash during the final lap. 20-year old Kyle Larson was the driver of a car that stuck the catch fence. The front ...

Experts in workplace psychology say that some of the inevitable complaining by employees is helpful, even necessary, but that it can also become toxic.

THE MAN in the aisle seat was talking to me about the woman he liked to travel with. She would fly into JFK once a year and they would make their way to the West Coast; he would visit her home country of Iceland regularl...

Stephen Kaufer, the chief executive of TripAdvisor, developed his company after a frustrating search for hotel advice online.

Americans weren't always addicted to buying things. Long before U.S. consumers racked up $11.3 trillion in aggregate debt, people used to save money for things they actually needed. But in the age of plenty that followed...

Wojciech Inglot, a Polish chemist and businessman who founded and ran a cosmetics company, Inglot, that grew into an international success with nearly 400 stores in 50 countries, has died.

What others see as the future of the workplace, and what parents see as a most important tool for juggling home and work, Marissa Mayer apparently sees as disposable.

Transforming the American health care system could include offering safe harbor from malpractice suits for doctors who demonstrate high-quality care.

Lily Kanter, co-founder and chief executive of Serena & Lily, a home décor company, says she assigns no more than four employees for a project to drive innovation.

Prof Stephen Milner from Manchester University discovered the historic document by accident while researching town criers and the proclamations they read out in archives in Florence. The 1513 proclamation, which called f...

Outside shareholders who support an independent analysis of the company's value are wary of dealings by Michael Dell that may take the business private.

Your boss is caught in the act of "going at it" with a junior colleague, and it's perfectly acceptable. That's the espionage division of the CIA, according to former clandestine operations officer Reuel Marc Gerecht, who...

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A Russian cruise ship is now adrift in the North Atlantic after breaking free from a towing line when it was being sent from Canada to a scrapyard in January. The Lyubovy Orlova, built in 1976, once took passengers to th...

Here's a framework for making sense of the flood of mobile news coming out of Barcelona.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- A report finds California's workers' compensation system has awarded millions of dollars in benefits for job-related injuries to thousands of professional athletes,...