President Donald Trump plans to withdraw his highly controversial nominee to chair a key White House environmental panel, according to media reports. Kathleen Hartnett White, who had been picked to chair the White House’s Commission on Environmental Quality (CEQ), came under fire from senators in both parties for what they characterized as her extremist views and disregard for […]

Market mayhem: Main Street is feeling good right now — maybe a little too good if you ask Wall Street. After years of stagnant wages, American workers finally got a legit raise in January. Wages grew at the fastest pace since 2009 — a strong signal of a healthy economy and a tight jobs market. But there was […]

An Amtrak train traveling from New York to Miami collided with a CSX freight train early Sunday morning in Lexington County, South Carolina, killing two Amtrak personnel and injuring more than 100, according to authorities. The crash overnight Sunday caused the lead engine and some passenger cars to derail, Amtrak said in a statement. There […]

After serving on countless DesignCon technical program committees and delivering 19 years worth of tutorials and technical papers, Mike Peng Li says the conference has become a part of him. “It takes a bit of energy and passion to do it,” he told Design News recently. “It becomes so much a part of your life, it’s hard to separate […]

Sunday, February 4 marks World Cancer Day, which aims to unite the whole world in the fight against cancer and raise awareness of the disease. As more and more research focuses on how our lifestyle can affect our risk of developing cancer, here we round up some of the latest findings which suggest small everyday […]

The idea of a corporate university isn’t new. Apple’s Steve Jobs famously set up Apple University to teach company lore and indoctrinate employees in the company’s quirky ethos. McDonald’s Hamburger University teaches restaurant management skills and already has over 275,000 graduates. But few, if any, startups have done it as quickly or with as much […]

What’s better than a fresh bouquet of your favorite flowers on Valentine’s Day? A little something to add to your beauty stash, of course. Celebrate this Valentine’s Day by treating yourself to a new rose-infused or rosy-hued beauty product of choice. If you’re in the market for a fragrance, give Coach’s new rose elixir a sniff or stock up […]

The fortunes of the world’s 500-richest people dropped by $68.5 billion Friday as equity markets swooned with investor worries about the pace of interest rate hikes in the U.S. Warren Buffett led the declines, shedding $3.3 billion to end the day at No. 3 on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index with $90.1 billion. Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest person with $119.6 […]

When my children were little (4, 7 and 9 respectively), I decided to take them on a week-long trip to Disney World in Orlando, Florida. I also took along my mom and my step-father. This intergenerational trip was a ton of fun: My parents really enjoyed watching the kids’ reactions to the Disney characters they would meet […]

Plan your week in entertainment with these highlights and pop-culture milestones: TV Tune-in: Two of Bravo’s biggest reality stars — Real Housewives of New York City‘s Bethenny Frankel and Million Dollar Listing: New York‘s Fredrik Eklund — are getting together for a show of their own. Bethenny & Fredrik premieres Tuesday at 10 p.m. ET/PT. The pair, already friends, become business partners and team up to renovate […]