Hurricane Maria is stalking the same Caribbean islands that were ravaged by Irma earlier this month, as the tempest looks to put its stamp on the 2017 hurricane season, among the busiest in recent…
Nearly half of Americans say they are very likely to make a sizable purchase before the end of the year, according to a new .com report, an indication of continued consumer confidence and a…
Average gasoline prices have dropped in 45 of 50 states, with the national average declining nearly five cents a gallon, the first weekly drop since damage from Hurricane Harvey forced refineries to close.
Modern medicine is succeeding in reducing the number of early deaths, according to a recent study.
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is recommending that six of 27 national monuments under review by the Trump administration be reduced in size and proposes changes to several others.
Nearly 41 million U.S. internet users will go online only on a mobile device in 2017, an increase of more than 4 million users from a year earlier.
Google faces a new lawsuit accusing it of gender-based pay discrimination, another black eye for the Silicon Valley company.
Investors are focusing on Uber and Lyft, the two companies that are powering the ride-sharing industry.
North Korea is not backing down. Flouting international condemnation, the isolated rogue nation fired a ballistic missile over the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido Friday.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) said Thursday it will invest $40 million over three years in Chicago’s underserved South and West sides in an effort to address the city’s poverty and violence in…
The announcement this week that Target is hiring 100,000 seasonal workers for the holidays might be the first of other encouraging hiring announcements from retailers for the holiday season.
If you want to live in a city with low stress, brush up on your German. Seven of the 10 least stressful cities in the world are places where that is the dominant spoken…
Can North Korea actually destroy Tokyo, with a population of almost 13 million people, in a nuclear holocaust?
New research suggests a potential slowdown in municipal revenue as fiscal growth in American cities contracts for the second straight year.
Reaching Generation Z, those born in 1995 or later, has become a challenge for marketers and prospective employers, according to outplacement and executive coaching firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas.
The deadliest parts of the world for road crashes tended to be in South America, Africa, the Middle East and Southeast Asia, while the safest area is Europe.
Nearly three-quarters of office workers in North America would quit their job to move to an organization that allows them to work remotely more frequently, even if they don’t get a pay hike.
Census data tell us that if we want to stay married longer, our chances are better if we get a well-paying job.
More than 50% of the gas stations in seven metropolitan areas in Florida were without fuel, a consequence of the disruptive force of Hurricane Irma.
As the Southeast cleans up from Hurricane Irma and Texas rebounds from the historic punishment meted out by Hurricane Harvey, the tempest-tossed South may have to prepare for another storm in the Atlantic. Hurricane…
