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AT&T is paying $105 million to settle charges it ignored and profited from scams that put unauthorized third-party charges on customers’ phone bills.


Long lines are a consistent image of every election cycle, but in some states the wait can get really long.


Japan isn’t having enough babies. Blame the labor market — and sexism.


Secretary of State John Kerry says the US is looking at the plan “very, very closely.” But is it a good idea?


But Alaska, Louisiana, and Texas also face big risks from the current plunge in prices.


The World Bank’s new approach for comparing living standards internationally is making China and India look richer and displacing the US and Japan from the top of the world economy league tables.


The country can borrow at ultra-low rates, but instead of investing in its future it’s letting vital infrastructure crumble.


Bad practices are threatening the Pacific fisher, coho salmon, and other cute critters.


Patrick Modiano, the French novelist whose work explores ideas of isolation and identity during the Nazi occupation of France, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday morning.


America’s largest auto port keeps growing.


Let’s use IMDB ratings to speculate!


Offices with a more even women-men split perform better but have lower morale, a new study finds


How Ebola cases are being missed and under-counted.


The state has redefined what it means for college students to consent to sex. Will their sex lives and rights change dramatically? Probably not.


Thanks, sequestration!