The widening achievement gap between affluent and low-income students has received less attention than the divide between white and black students, which has narrowed.

Google is moving into hardware, which is a goal of Larry Page, the chief executive, by developing an “entertainment device” to compete with Amazon and Apple.

Young people still watch many television shows, but they are streaming them on computers and phones to a greater degree.

More than two million Americans could benefit from mortgage relief from the nation’s biggest banks, as part of a broad government settlement to be announced as early as Thursday.

A concept based on Buddhist teachings encourages people to eat slowly, paying close attention to the sensation and purpose of each morsel.

Media and Internet giants at odds over dealing with purloined content on the Web may need to agree first on exactly how bad the problem is.

In a new tactic for countering the data assault, offices are giving workers a second computer screen and sometimes a third.

Mrs. Green, a teenage officers’ mess waitress, signed up in the last months of the war and recalled the officers’ courtly behavior.

A federal appeals court panel ruled Tuesday that a voter-approved ban on gay marriage in California violated the Constitution, all but ensuring the case will proceed to the United States Supreme Court.

"Active users" add up in Facebook's prospectus, but some of those clicks aren't on the Web site.

Two fundraisers for President Obama are brothers of a casino magnate linked to violence and corruption in Mexico who is seeking a pardon.

The United States Constitution was once a model for charters around the world, but its influence is waning, according to a new study.

Although more than half of its 845 million members log into Facebook on a mobile device, the company has not yet found a way to make real money from that use.

Whether you can obtain a job, credit or insurance can be based on your digital doppelgänger — and you may never know why you’ve been turned down.

Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s No. 2 executive, considers herself a role model for women. But her call isn’t simply about mentoring and empowering, it’s also a business strategy.

Mr. Gazzara’s long acting career included playing Brick in the original “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” on Broadway and roles in influential films by John Cassavetes.

Antonio Bolfo was bored, so he became a police officer. To relieve the stress of patrolling South Bronx housing projects, he took a camera on the job. It led to a new career.

The Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation was faced with dissension in its own ranks and roiling anger online over its decision to end its long partnership with Planned Parenthood.

Mr. Bloomberg, a billionaire with a long-term interest in public health, said he would give Planned Parenthood Federation of America a $250,000 matching gift.

Facebook’s public offering will make a lot of billionaires and millionaires, some of them prominent people and others not.

Facebook, the vast online social network, took its first step toward becoming a publicly traded company on Wednesday, as it filed to sell $5 billion of shares.

The social network’s stock offering, expected to value the company at $80 billion to $100 billion, is bound to raise even more concerns about privacy and other issues.

Thanks to a gap between discrimination laws and disability laws, it’s possible for a pregnant woman to be forced from her job.

Facebook plans to file the prospectus for its initial public offering on Wednesday and has picked Morgan Stanley to lead the company's long-awaited stock sale.

Charles Murray’s “Coming Apart” describes the most important cultural trends today and offers a better understanding of America’s increasingly two-caste society.

The vast collection of music, film, videotapes and photographs collected by the folklorist and ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax is being digitized for wider dissemination.

The former editor of Cosmopolitan is financing an institute on media innovation on both campuses, at Columbia's journalism school and Stanford's school of engineering. Her total gift to the journalism school was its largest ever.

What should McDonald's have done differently on Twitter - or was disaster inevitable?

While many modern executives live behind a wall of communications operatives, Rupert Murdoch, the chief of News Corporation, is openly expressing his opinions on Twitter.