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California power company PG&E has agreed to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in civil settlements to avoid prosecution. The utility was found responsible for two major wildfires in recent years.

A new Spanish-language soap opera is entertaining U.S. audiences... and educating them. Nuestro Barrio, rich in romance and heartbreak, also works in tips on personal finance for first-generation immigrants.

Reports of adult abuse have been steadily increasing since 2012 as baby boomers reach retirement.Washington State Department of Health leaders say they are concerned by the drop in reports during the pandemic, saying elder abuse was still likely occurring.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Russo edited and contributed to a new volume called A Healing Touch: True Stories of Life, Death, and Hospice. He says the book that he and his five fellow writers thought would be about loss and grief turned into something very different.

Journalist Martin Davidson knew his German grandfather had something to hide. After the old man died, Davidson discovered the secret: He'd been an officer in the SS.

Federal, state and local governments, along with many private companies, are struggling to get their finances in order, and many are looking at one major cost: pensions. Many pensions in the U.S. aren't sustainable, economist Dambisa Moyo says, and they've made American corporations uncompetitive.

Johnny Appleseed is the legendary frontiersman who planted orchards all over what's now the Midwest. But he was also a real man, a wanderer and evangelist who actively contributed to his own myth.

Homer & Langley, the new novel by E.L. Doctorow, re-imagines the lives of the eccentric Collyer brothers, two collectors who died amid tons of rubbish in their Fifth Avenue mansion.

David M. Walker is the former comptroller general of the United States. His book, Comeback America, details the current financial crisis and offers his ideas on controlling spending and restoring fiscal responsibility in the United States.

More than three-quarters of Americans say they are micromanaged in the workplace. Management consultant Harry Chambers, author of My Way or the Highway: The Micromanagement Survival Guide explains the classic characteristics of micromanagers and how best to deal with them.