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For many, an umbrella may seem a pedestrian, often disposable object. Not so for the umbrella maker Carlo Suino, 60, who believes an umbrella should not only last a lifetime [...]

Andy Litinsky, who helped start the former president's social media company, revealed Mr. Trump's last-minute doubts about an agreement that made them all very wealthy. Former President Donald J. Trump's [...]

Ann and Sid Mashburn, clothiers in Atlanta, have opened a store on Madison Avenue. Is it a business to be reckoned with? Upstarts! That was this reporter's initial reaction on [...]

Byline: Nicki Jhabvala When Daniel and Tanya Snyder issued a statement in early November saying they were exploring a potential sale of the Washington Commanders, the timeline was unclear. A [...]

Since the days of the gold rush, dreamers hoping to strike it rich have been staking their claim to a dusty 80-acre town in the Mojave Desert called Nipton. For [...]

Byline: Tony LaRussa Apr. 16Tony Vigilante isn't a master beer brewer or a professional pizza chef. But he sure loves a great pint to wash down a tasty pizza. So [...]

Byline: Jonathan Lee Video game content creator Jason 'Videogamedunkey' Gastrow has established himself as one of the most popular satirists, critics and video essayists in the field. This week, the [...]

At Monty's Good Burger, a chain in Los Angeles, there's no meat but lots of selfies. LOS ANGELES -- Even if you've never eaten food from Monty's Good Burger, there's [...]

Byline: Margaret Sullivan As the would-be new owner of Twitter, Elon Musk has been touting his passion for free speech over the past week. He's also been showing his confusion, [...]

And in some ways he did. Even before Elon Musk proposed a roughly $44 billion deal to take over Twitter, his tweeting habit had become an essential part of his [...]

Elon Musk could pledge his Tesla shares, borrow from banks or team up with private equity to raise the funds. Each option comes with caveats. People who try to take [...]

Byline: SEAN SILCOFF, Staff Lead Toronto password management company 1Password has raised US$100-million from its largest outside investor and several prominent software entrepreneurs, including the CEOs of Shopify Inc., Slack [...]

Byline: Sarah Hauer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, USA TODAY NETWORK - Wisconsin JACKSON, Wis. - Cindy Poiesz was stuck at her desk for more than 12 hours a day in her [...]

Byline: Allan Sloan Much of Wall Street these days worships at the altar of 'shareholder value.' Sounds like a benign term, doesn't it? But in reality, 'shareholder value' is a [...]

Byline: Glenn Kessler 'I opened my own deli, it was like Subway before Subway, even built the counter in my dad's garage. And I did it for two years and [...]

LOS ANGELES -- Most wage-earning women have gone through some version of this prework routine: assemble appropriate outfit (not too flashy, not too drab). Add layer to protect against office [...]

Byline: Katie Mettler Daren Metropoulos is the youngest son of the billionaire businessman known as 'Mr. Shelf Space,' the former co-face of Pabst Blue Ribbon's hipster revival, heir to the [...]

Byline: Matt Krantz, USA TODAY Billionaire investor Warren Buffett released his must-read, wisdom-filled letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders Saturday, and stood by his self-described 'Big Four' stock investments, despite their [...]

Byline: Thomas Heath I have two Keens in my life. One is the legendary Keens Steakhouse in New York City. I die for the dry-aged T-bone. This column is about [...]

Byline: Thomas Heath WASHINGTON - Pakistan-born Imran Aftab was traveling in 2004 when an AOL Time Warner colleague posed a rude question. 'Imran, you're from Pakistan, yet you seem normal,' [...]

Byline: KATHERINE SNOW SMITH; Times Staff Writer ST. PETERSBURG -- When Carolyn Brayboy signed on to her husband's plan to buy three buildings on Midtown's 22nd Street S, she knew [...]

Byline: ELIZABETH BEHRMAN Barbara Baker wasn't deterred by the less-than-ideal reputation of N Howard Avenue. Instead, she embraced West Tampa's rich history and made it her place of business for [...]

Byline: MARSHA LEDERMAN PROFILE VANCOUVER -- It's a busy Vancouver morning and, from his shop window, James Coleridge is witness to the rush of contemporary life: people in business suits [...]

Byline: JEFFREY S. SOLOCHEK; TIMES STAFF WRITER DADE CITY -- Leslie Monticco heads to the small kitchen of the Coffee Mug Cafe on Meridian Avenue to supervise her 15-year-old daughter, [...]

Wandering through Andreas Murkudis's cluster of sleek boutiques, hidden in a courtyard in Berlin's Mitte neighborhood, one gets the feeling that Mr. Murkudis thinks of his shops more as intimate [...]

When Corina Elgart, 33, of Huntington, N.Y., was a criminal investigator in Washington, she never dreamed she'd be competing in ''Next Great Baker,'' the TLC reality-show spinoff of Buddy Valastro's [...]

At the government's request, the tribes that populate the remote Indonesian island of Sumba stopped hunting heads in the 1950s. Or at least that was what was supposed to happen. [...]

Byline: Laura Petrecca As a Marine in Iraq, Brian Iglesias dodged bullets, ducked hand grenades, saw others lose limbs and wondered each morning if it would be his last. Someone [...]

Byline: Jon Swartz SAN FRANCISCO -- The father of Twitter has hatched a start-up that he hopes does for financial transactions what Twitter did for communication. Square, the venture from [...]