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Twitter gets lots of grief from investors because it hasn’t taken over the world the way Facebook did, at least in terms of amassing users. But maybe it’s destined to stay small, serving a vital, if limited, role for the ...

For decades, a modest farmhouse in central Virginia was thought to be what remained of President James Monroe’s home in Charlottesville, Virginia. It turns out, historians were wrong. New evidence suggests the building that has long been billed as the home ...

Women would be required to register for the military draft under a House committee bill that comes just months after the Defense Department lifted all gender-based restrictions on front-line combat units. A divided Armed Services Committee backed the provision in ...

The number of people seeking U.S. unemployment benefits climbed last week, but remained near the lowest level in four decades, a sign that the slumping economy isn’t boosting layoffs. THE NUMBERS: The Labor Department says weekly applications for unemployment aid ...

What’s in your 401(k)? For more of us, the answer is just a single fund. Target-date retirement funds aim to make investing simple, and that’s why their popularity is exploding. Just pick one pegged to the year you plan to ...

Airline schedule changes are often frustrating. Suddenly a mid-morning flight shifts to one leaving before sunrise or a leisurely layover turns into a mad dash to the next gate. Savvy travelers, however, realize that sometimes schedule changes — usually an ...

The House passed a bill Tuesday requiring the Department of Homeland Security to use testimonials from former extremists and other social media messages to combat “Hollywood-style propaganda” used by the Islamic State and other militant groups to recruit new members. ...

A gay rights group sued the Justice Department on Wednesday for failing to produce hundreds of pages of documents related to a 1953 order signed by President Dwight Eisenhower that empowered federal agencies to investigate and fire employees thought to ...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday seemed poised to overturn the conviction of former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell on political corruption charges and place new limits on the reach of federal bribery laws. Justices across the ideological spectrum expressed major concerns ...

The Senate passed a bill Tuesday that would limit the public’s access to some footage from police body cameras, which Republican lawmakers said was a necessary prerequisite for more law enforcement departments to take up the technology. Other bills mandating ...

Apple sold more than 51 million iPhones in the first three months of this year — and that’s the problem. That’s 10 million fewer iPhones than the tech giant sold during the same quarter a year ago. As a result, ...