Oil prices back above $100 a barrel, rising U.S. exports and falling stocks of distillates, and growing demand for both heating oil and diesel may prove to be a toxic mix for energy consumers this winter.

As I walked into the CBS Broadcast Center at 5:00am this morning, I passed a group of Occupy Wall Street protestors, as they were about to start their “Day of Action.” I hollered over and said, ‘What’s your mission today?’ and the response was the same mantra that the group has been espousing for weeks: […]

Study abroad is on the rise again with 4% more American students studying abroad than last year.

After graduating from Carnegie Mellon in 2005 Jenny Gammello spent two years in New York City struggling to launch an acting career – ­before deciding to make her peace with grown-up job reality €”and study for the LSAT. But a funny thing happened on Gammello’€™s way to law school. She answered a Craigslist ad from […]

More and more employers are demanding that workers who smoke, are overweight or have high cholesterol shoulder a greater share of their health care costs, a shift toward penalizing employees with unhealthy lifestyles rather than rewarding good habits.

There’s nearly a year to go till the 2012 Presidential election and already the Republican field has faced off for at least ten debates since May. That intense schedule has helped boost the campaigns of more polished candidates, while sinking the public perception of those who stumble.

Herman Cain has his first real opportunity to shift his campaign’s narrative back to his popular 9-9-9 economic plan at Wednesday night’s presidential debate.

How did we allow these games being played at institutions of higher learning, where the primary goal is supposed to be educating young people, to become such a damning, out-of-control influence on our lives? To completely skew what we should easily recognize as the difference between right and wrong?

New York’s TKTS booth, a discount theater ticket kiosk in Times Square, opened in 1973 with a revolutionary four-part formula: Take one cultural hub, add one funky booth, cut ticket prices in half and limit sales to day-of shows.

The sexual abuse scandal at Penn State, perhaps the most shameful in the history of college sports, has brought a national outcry, led to the firing of the university’s president and legendary head coach Joe Paterno, and plunged a football-crazed campus into turmoil.

The headlines of the past two days have been dominated by news of family violence. Three cases have been reported involving sons lashing out at family members. Two of those cases had horrific outcomes.

Facebook takes many forms: it’s a social network, a photo album, and a game platform, among other things. But with the recent announcement of a partnership with agencies including the U.S. Department of Labor, Facebook may soon become another entity to its users: a job search site.