Mary Barra, General Motors’ new chief executive officer, was in a tough spot recently as she tried to explain to Congress why her company didn’t quickly recall cars it k...
WASHINGTON — When our longtime family doctor retired in the early 1960s, he was, according to my mother, charging the same amount for an office visit as he did in the 19...
Pull yourself away from the nonstop TV news about the lost Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 for just a few minutes. Let’s look back at what we’ve just learned about our 21st...
NEW YORK — The modern income tax was passed 100 years ago on a simple premise — it would apply only to the top one-half of 1 percent of the population and it would be ea...
The financial crisis of 2008-09 had several causes, among them complex financial instruments that few investors understood.
Wall Street’s relentless pursuit of ingeniou...
PITTSBURGH — Butler Cubs boxer Billy Wolfe won an Allegheny Mountain Association Golden Gloves boxing title recently, scoring a decision over Lucas Dupree of Pittsburgh....
WASHINGTON — If you know someone among the long-term unemployed — a category that includes workers who have been jobless at least six months, but in many cases much long...
NEW YORK — Russia’s aggression in Ukraine has had the effect of unifying the Western democracies, at least in their robust condemnation of the action. But travel further...
This week, the federal government is releasing a massive database capable of providing patients with much more information about their doctors.
The Centers for Medicare ...
Pat Paulsen was a hoot. The comedian, who appeared on “The Smothers Brothers” TV show starting back in the late 1960s, was also a perennial presidential candidate, getti...
