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Luther Vandross collaborator and background singer Fonzi Thornton talks to the WSJ's Lee Hawkins about the celebrities who came and visited the lat...

Wendy Bounds, WSJ Reporter visits the Bronx Zoo and explores the word of turtles and tortoises. The Bronx Zoo is part of a larger effort to build u...

Heather Knight, a social robotics researcher at Carnegie Mellon, is finding ways to design robots that can pick up on social cues and nuanced human...

Today on Off Duty: Wendy reports from the Bronx Zoo ahead of Earth Day and learns about endangered turtle conservation. Plus Lee Hawkins remembers ...

When you are on a science expedition in Alaska and what to get to Mount McKinley, the only way you can get there is on an ice plane. Ice pilot, Ric...

WSJ Ahead of the Tape columnist Spencer Jakab makes a stop on Mean Street to look at GE's earnings and how the company's GE Capital division is giv...

The summer movie season is right around the corner. Watch a collection of movie trailers from this summer's new films including "Abraham Lincoln: V...

The SEC has had ratings firm Egan-Jones in its sights for some time, and chose to take enforcement action late this week. WSJ's Jeannette Neumann h...

Nokia's struggles may have an upside for those shopping for a new smartphone: steep discounts. But is a discounted Lumia Smartphone worth it? Quent...

Barrons associate editor Michael Santoli visits Mean Street to examine the current swings seen in the markets and determine whether they indicate a...

Marketwatch columnist Rex Nutting checks in on Mean Street and take issue with some politicians who feel poor people are poor because they are lazy...

WSJ's Jason Zweig visits Mean Street to handicap the succession plan at Berkshire Hathaway to fill Warren Buffett's shoes.

Dozens of universities and law-enforcement agencies have been given approval by federal aviation regulators to use unmanned aircraft known as drone...

New York's attorney general sued Sprint Nextel on Thursday, seeking $300 million for the carrier's alleged failure to pay sales taxes due on some o...

Verizon, fed up with the high costs of offering the iPhone, plans to push smartphones powered by Microsoft's Windows software, as a counterweight t...

Flights and hotels to Europe are expensive, especially with the London Olympics. But Mediterranean cruises are steeply discounted. We also offer su...

In a world where we e-mail our coworkers to avoid walking 10 feet across the hall, the treadmill desk makes a daffy kind of sense. SmartMoney's Rus...

The judge in the Trayvon Martin case set bail at $150,000 for George Zimmerman. Arian Campo-Flores has details on Lunch Break.

The JOBS Act allows hedge funds to begin advertising, and that means they might become slightly more accessible to small investors, Chuck Jaffe rep...

Splunk, a business-technology start-up with a funny name turned in the best stock debut this year on Thursday, underlining how investors' appetite ...

Three airline unions reach agreements with potential merger. Jack Nicas has details on Markets Hub.

An exclusive WSJ/NBC poll has Barack Obama out to a six point lead over Republican rival Mitt Romney. WSJ's Neil King Jr. says the President also t...

Federal prosecutors preparing for the insider-trading trial against former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. GS -1.50% director Rajat Gupta have disclosed a...

Sen. Marco Rubio again brushed off talk of the vice presidential nomination, saying that reporters and others will soon move onto the next new thin...

Rising layoffs, falling home sales and slowing manufacturing activity are sparking fears that the economic recovery is headed for a springtime stal...

Ford said it will build a $760 million factory in eastern China as part of a plan to double its production capacity there by 2015, marking the moto...

Levon Helm, legendary drummer for 'The Band,' died on April 19th after a long battle with cancer. WSJ rock and pop critic Jim Fusilli remembers the...

The Indianapolis Colts. The Cleveland Browns. The New York Jets. The Washington Redskins. All team are looking to the 2012 NFL draft for the chance...

Alexandra Cheney, WSJ Reporter caught up with Nancy Schafer & Geoffrey Gilmore executives from the Tribeca Film Festival in NYC at the opening brea...

Stocks were little changed as a handful of upbeat earnings reports offset disappointing readings on the domestic jobs and housing markets. Matt Jar...

The Federal Reserve said Thursday that banks will have a full two years to bring their activities in line with the so-called Volcker rule before re...