General Electric has been a piston of the American economic engine for 125 years. It pioneered the light bulb and the jet engine. It survived the Great Depression, the dot-com crash and the 2008 ...

KFC has issued a high-profile, humorous apology for its chicken shortages in the UK. The fast-food chain used a full-page ad in British newspapers to apologize for shutting down hundreds of ...

Every year, police officers seize tens of thousands of rifles, shotguns, machine guns and other firearms from criminals across the country. While many agencies destroy these weapons, a growing ...

What's the best position for staring at a glowing rectangle and frantically moving your fingers for eight hours straight? Sitting is killing us. Standing desks are better but have their own issues ...

For automakers, competition today is as likely to come from Silicon Valley as it is from Detroit, Japan or Germany. In a brave new world of self-driving cars and electric vehicles, Ford decided it ...

$9 for a loaf of bread in Tokyo? $2,100 for a dinner bill in Paris? To see which cities are the most expensive for employees and travelers, the Economist looked at the prices -- in U.S. dollars ...

A tiny porpoise finds itself in a battle for survival against the forces of fish mafias, drug cartels, and a Chinese black market. When US border agents raided the home of Song Shen Zhen, they ...

Over the past several days, two major American companies found themselves facing public relations disasters. A fatal engine failure aboard a Southwest (LUV) flight left the airline scrambling to ...

California resident Gerilynn Aflleje was horrified when her 4-year-old Siberian Husky mix was killed by a local animal shelter over $180 in fees that she couldn't afford. Her dog, Chunk, had been ...

Americans love refrigerators. They even give them a nickname: "fridge." Almost 100% of homes have a refrigerator, according to government data. It's the most popular home appliance. But here's an ...

The ongoing protests and violence that have occurred over the past several days in Milwaukee are about more than the police killing of Sylville Smith. They are about years of inequity, high ...

The FBI estimates that retail crime costs the U.S. $30 billion a year, and some household items that people steal may surprise you. Apparently, thieves missed the "Thou shalt not steal" part of ...