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Bills, bills, bills. There's nothing like a fat stack of monthly invoices to make you feel like waving a big white flag that says "POOR." But with a little financial...

The presidential campaigns of Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain moved Friday to disclose more information to the public about their top fundraisers, after it was disclosed that they had...

Interior design guru Christopher Lowell and his film crew have been working at a frantic pace. In just six months, they've produced 13 half-hour episodes for his new problem-solving series,...

What was once a seemingly unstoppable climb in home prices has given way to a plunge in value in many areas. Yet there is a bit of good news: This...

Gerald Tsai, a fund manager and financier who pioneered the creation of performance funds in the 1950s and '60s and later turned a canning company into the financial services giant...

Bobby Durham, a drummer whose precise, understated style made him much sought after as a sideman by such jazz greats as Duke Ellington, Lionel Hampton, Oscar Peterson and Ella Fitzgerald,...

Bruce Conner, an artist internationally admired for his haunting, surrealistic sculptures and groundbreaking avant-garde films, died Monday at his home in San Francisco. He was 74. His death followed a...

John Simon, a Civil War scholar whose mammoth effort in editing of the papers of Ulysses S. Grant created a new standard for the organization of historical documents, died Tuesday...

Dorian Leigh, who combined pristine blue eyes, curling eyelashes, an arresting intelligence and intoxicating sexuality to become one of history's most photographed models -- perhaps the first to truly merit...

American military and intelligence officials say there has been an increase in recent months in the number of foreign fighters who have traveled to Pakistan's tribal areas to join with...