Community Health Systems, a publicly traded hospital operator based in Franklin, Tenn., said that personal data, including names, Social Security numbers and addresses, for 4.5 million patients had ...

Draft is a series about the art and craft of writing. I like to imagine a sentence as a boat. Each sentence, after all, has a distinct shape, and it comes with something that makes it move forward or ...

Borderlines explores the global map, one line at a time. It’s funny the way close observation can change your perception of things. Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle says something like this about ...

“Only Southerners have taken horsewhips and pistols to editors about the treatment or maltreatment of their manuscript. This — the actual pistols — was in the old days, of course, we no longer succumb ...

Pregnant women often go to great lengths to give their babies a healthy start in life. They quit smoking, skip the chardonnay, switch to decaf, forgo aspirin. They say no to swordfish and politely ...

$10 million a minute. That’s about how much the trading problem that set off turmoil on the stock market on Wednesday morning is already costing the trading firm. The Knight Capital Group announced on ...

Learn about key events in history and their connections to today. On Jan. 20, 1981, Iran released 52 Americans who had been held hostage for 444 days, minutes after the presidency had passed from ...

A former board member involved in a merger that created the nation’s largest electric utility has blasted an abrupt leadership change at the company. “This is the most blatant example of corporate ...

The last name painted on the grand liner, christened the S.S. Normandie in 1932 and being converted into a troopship called the U.S.S. Lafayette a decade later, was Lipsett, in large white letters.

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 ...

OKLAHOMA CITY — The crowd at Donald J. Trump’s rally here Friday night quickly began booing the young protester clad in the “KKK supports Trump” T-shirt, who was escorted from the event. But for Mr.

As auto lenders reach out to those with poor credit, they are increasingly using starter interruption devices, technology that allows them to remotely disable a car, to spur timely payment. The ...