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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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A tiny porpoise finds itself in a battle for survival against the forces of fish mafias, drug cartels, and a Chinese black market. When US border agents raided the home of Song Shen Zhen, they ...

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says he didn't mean to promote the Lego Batman movie. On Friday, Mnuchin, who was a former Hollywood producer, tried to clarify remarks he made last week in an ...

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 ...