The U.S. Senate defeated two attempts by Democrats to extend the Bush-era tax cuts for the middle classes permanently. After the votes, President Obama told Democratic congressional leaders he would be open to a temporary extension of the Bush-era tax cuts for the affluent, but he would demand concessions from the GOP.
Iran's foreign minister dampened the possibility for a breakthrough in upcoming international talks over Tehran's nuclear program, blaming Washington for pursuing a confrontational policy instead of genuine diplomacy.
As the year winds down, investors confront a number of confusing trends. We examined key sectors in the investment world and asked top analysts whether investors should be bullish or bearish in the near and longer terms.
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PayPal, the online payment service, has joined a growing number of companies that have pulled or threatened to pull Internet-support services to the controversial document-leaking website, by cutting off a donations account used by WikiLeaks.
A lawsuit filed Friday against an adult website owner is one of the first to target an internet practice called "history-sniffing," which is drawing increased scrutiny from regulators and academics.
The U.S. and South Korea agreed to revive a broad pact that could drop barriers on a wide array of goods and services, setting up what would be the biggest nation-to-nation trade deal since Nafta.
The American Red Cross says that as a result of concerns over XMRV, it is barring people with a diagnosis of CFS from donating blood.
Google's multibillion-dollar bid to acquire local deals site Groupon ended Friday as the two ended talks.
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Nonprofits have long concentrated on helping those at the bottom of the pyramid, but Endeavor CEO Linda Rottenberg has set her sights on those in the middle. It's a strategy that's paying dividends both in human and financial terms
Twenty years ago, Warren Buffett invited Sharon Osberg to Omaha to play cards. It was a game that changed their lives. Now best friends, the pair chat about their relationship and the rigors of low-stakes, high-pressure bridge
A leading man of modern French cinema, actor Vincent Cassel is poised for international success with this season's "Black Swan."
The former Disney CEO has reinvented himself as author and new-media entrepreneur. Seeing the potential to reach larger audiences than ever before via the Web, the complex mogul talks about the transformation of media from caveman days to those ahead and how content really is king
The East Deck motel weathered Montauk's biggest wave—gentrification—but now the cult-classic inn is on the market. Is the surf really up?
Auburn beats South Carolina 56-17 to win SEC title and likely berth in national-championship game.
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Israel's police said Saturday they arrested two men suspected of negligence in starting a fire that has been raging three days in the Carmel mountains outside the northern city of Haifa, which fire officials now predict could take a week to extinguish.
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Steve and Levi Yoder debate the amount of freedom Levi should have after receiving his first cellphone at 15.
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Photos from NCAA college football games across the country.
Auburn beats South Carolina 56-17 to win SEC title and likely berth in national-championship game.
In a fictional episode, a U.S. Army interrogator must tell a source, an Afghan teenager, that he has been compromised by a WikiLeaks post.
Former U.S. National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley lashed out at WikiLeaks for damaging U.S. diplomacy with its recent document dump.
Anyone who sees "The King's Speech," about how England's King George VI overcame a stammer, will likely come away wanting to know more about the King's Australian speech therapist, Lionel Logue. Speakeasy talked to Logue's grandson.
How best to explain an employment gap in an interview.
In today's pictures, a deadly forest fire leaves ashes in Israel, a sinkhole partially swallows a car in Maryland, a boy dives into floodwaters in Venezuela and more.