April Fools' Day, celebrated worldwide with pranks and hoaxes, has an unclear origin. The tradition includes attaching paper fish to backs,...

Scott Bessent, a hedge fund executive, has been nominated as Treasury secretary by Donald Trump. Bessent gained support from both MAGA popu...

Charles Dolan, the visionary founder of HBO and Cablevision, passed away at the age of 98 due to natural causes. Dolan launched HBO in 1972...

On his first day in office, Starmer will get briefings from senior civil servants about key issues facing the government, receive congratul...

A list of celebs who left us in 2023.

'Dicks: The Musical' director Larry Charles has slammed the Hollywood studio system and called it a “media monopoly system” in the US.

Here is a roll call of some influential figures who died in 2022.

Entergy Corp, the largest Louisiana utility, is facing tough questions on whether it had done enough to harden the electric system, which l...

The staggering losses, including a 7.8% tumble in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, immediately raised fears that a recession might be on t...

Some in this list are prominent, like Elon Musk. Others are not so much so, like Pallonji Mistry.

The world's top superpower is chock-full of people who possess the potent combination of money and influence that enables them to help shap...

This year, Stanford topped our lists as the best and most selective college in the US. As such, it attracts an extremely talented and intel...

Oracle Corp. has hired former Hewlett-Packard Co. CEO Mark Hurd to help lead the database software maker in a pivotal moment in its 33-year...

NBC, ABC, CNN, MSNBC and E! Entertainment will broadcast MJ's memorial service live. The service is set for 1700 GMT on Tuesday. Jackson's ...

Virginia Tech awarded diplomas Friday to students killed by a classmate last month during a mass shooting rampage,