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With a merger, American Airlines ends a yearlong courtship of US Airways. 8:53 a.m. | Updated Ending a yearlong courtship by US Airways, American Airlines agreed to merge with the smaller carrier, ...

Editor’s note: Marc Andreessen’s venture capital firm, Andreessen Horowitz, has invested just under $50 million in Bitcoin-related start-ups. The firm is actively searching for more Bitcoin-based ...

Justin Pagan, a seventh grader at the Lower Manhattan Community Middle School, “barely” liked reading, he said — until he discovered the Bluford series. With the Bluford books, Justin’s classmate ...

The end of Mahler’s Ninth Symphony contains some of the most spiritual and peaceful music ever written. So when a cellphone began ringing – and ringing, ringing, ringing without cease – during a ...

Morgan Stanley has reached an agreement to take full control of the Smith Barney retail brokerage joint venture, a business that it has called a crucial part of its future. The deal announced on ...

Disunion follows the Civil War as it unfolded. On June 28, 1862, in the midst of the Seven Days battles outside Richmond, smoke billowed in the distance as Confederate cavalrymen advanced toward the ...

Nature provides plenty of reasons for parents to adore their newborns. The giant eyes, the adorable coos, the flawless skin. But in the days following the birth of my son in May, it was his fresh, ...

A number of readers, both at this blog and other places, have been asking for an explanation of what IS-LM is all about. Fair enough – this blogosphere conversation has been an exchange among insiders ...

Donald J. Trump, who has repeatedly dabbled in conspiracy theories during his time on the campaign trail, accused Senator Ted Cruz’s father of associating with Lee Harvey Oswald not long before Oswald ...

Various updates | Scientific analysis pointing to a human role in warming the climate through burning fossil fuels goes back to 1896, with Svante Arrhenius’s remarkable paper, “On the Influence of ...