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A forensic accountant gave key testimony in the first trial of Paul Manafort, President Trump's former campaign chairman.

Public-sector unions can't collect fees from nonunion members anymore. Now anti-union groups are campaigning to get union members to quit.

Hurricane Florence, currently tearing along the Southeast coast of the U.S. could bring wind gusts of 80 mph. The governor of North Carolina said that “tens of thousands of structures are expected to be flooded.” The post-storm costs could be high as communities buy up the drywall, lumber, and steel to rebuild. The price of […]

Updates to the Apple Watch could mark the tech company’s entry into the growing business for personal emergency devices.

Unemployment in the United States currently stands at the low, low 3.9 percent. What’s not to like? A new paper from the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston argues that, historically, a low unemployment rate can signal trouble for the economy. It seems there is some danger in too much employment. Click the audio player above […]

“Every time we made contact with a community, we kept going back, and we kept going back, every day without missing a beat,” José Andrés says.

A government-backed study says the country's internet users are worried about missing out on online knowledge and are willing to pay for educational podcasts.

They warn the usage of e-cigarettes by teens has reached an epidemic proportion.

A few GOP lawmakers are bucking the party line by backing a tax on CO2 emissions.

More than 400,000 people without cars are in the path of Hurricane Florence, many of them low-income.