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McDonald's Corp. CEO Jack Greenberg said Thursday he plans to retire at the end of the year. Greenberg, a 21-year veteran of McDonald's, will be succeeded by McDonald's Vice Chairman and President Jim ...

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 ...

Sylvia Rosas decided to go to the emergency room after getting stung by a bee in her yard in Valrico, Florida. She had experienced allergic reactions in the past, but didn't have an EpiPen on hand.

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The stock market should have carried a warning in 2016: Steep drops and sudden acceleration may cause whiplash. From crashing oil prices that fueled Wall Street's worst-ever start to a year, to ...

Editor's Note: Today, a Canadian payment processor named PacNet Services, Ltd. became one of the many targets of an unprecedented crackdown on global mail fraud, which was announced today by ...

Just how big a deal is artificial intelligence? "AI is probably the most important thing humanity has ever worked on. I think of it as something more profound than electricity or fire." That's a ...

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 ...

It was already a frantic day in the Donald Trump presidential transition: The incoming president had attacked a reporter at a circus-like press conference, and a series of Cabinet confirmation ...

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 ...

Julia Horowitz contributed to this report.