Michelle Obama at book-signing: 'Buy away'
Michelle Obama on Tuesday returned to the business of selling her first book, and she started by telling scores of people waiting in line at a popular ...
AT&T to sell home automation, security packages
AT&T Inc. is launching its home security and automation service in 15 cities Friday, with an eye toward getting customers hooked on security cameras, ...
US home sales slip as supply remains tight
Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes dipped in March as the supply remained tight. But the sales pace remained ahead of last year's. The National ...
Gardeners make plans with no certainty in forecast
There's no question that Eric Ciula picked a bad year to get into a competition for growing the biggest tomato. The worst U.S. drought in decades was ...
Judge: JCP can sell Martha-designed goods for now
J.C. Penney can sell certain home goods designed by Martha Stewart that were destined for shelves in May — for now, a New York State Supreme Court ...
Judge won't dismiss part of Martha Stewart lawsuit
A New York State Supreme Court judge has rejected a motion by Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia lawyers to dismiss Macy's claim that the New York-based ...
French Quarter becomes a stage for music fest
Jazz guitarist Raphael Bas says French Quarter Festival is as close as it gets in the U.S. to the music festival he grew up attending with his family ...
Koolhaas unites architecture, design and fashion
Shedding his "puritanical" attitude against architects designing objects, Rem Koolhaas has shifted scale to create 11 pieces of furniture for the U.S.
Is home where the profit is?
J.C. Penney is honing in on its home department as part of a bigger plan to turn its stores into mini-malls of sorts. The struggling department-store ...
US homes sales highest in more than 3 years
U.S. sales of previously occupied homes rose in February to their fastest pace in more than three years, and more people put their homes on the market
US housing starts rise, permits at 4 ½-year high
U.S. builders started more homes in February and permits for future construction rose at the fastest pace in 4 ½ years. The increases point to a ...
Pritzker Prize winner Ito seeks ideas in nature
When he says why he especially likes Sendai Mediatheque, the public library that ranks among his most famous works, Toyo Ito, the Japanese architect ...
Quaint Finnish homes in Warsaw face destruction
Nearby the big city rumbles, but one feels almost transported to a quiet forest village when standing amid a colony of Finnish wooden houses in ...
Syria official warns of trafficking in antiquities
A Syrian government official warned Wednesday of rampant trafficking in antiquities from his country and appealed for U.N. help in halting the illicit ...
Heating system suspect in Mexico oil company blast
A water-heating system may have leaked gas into a tunnel beneath the headquarters of Mexico's national oil company for more than seven months before ...
US home prices accelerate in November
U.S. home prices accelerated in November compared with a year ago, pushed higher by rising sales and a tighter supply of available homes. The Standard ...
New York City extols virtues of tiny apartments
Sam Neuman jokes that he doesn't casually throw off his coat when he gets home at night — it would take up half his apartment. Such is life in his ...
Chefs hail first foodies with inauguration salute
Some of Washington's top chefs came together to salute the president ahead of the inauguration, in part because of the first family's influence on the ...
Surge in home construction likely to continue
The aftermath of the housing bust forced many homebuilders to dramatically scale back construction on new homes to avoid the risk of ending up saddled ...
History vs. history as China plans to rebuild past
In a corner of old Beijing, the government may soon be both destroying history and remaking it. District officials want to re-create a piece of ...
US home prices rise in October from previous year
US home prices rose in most major cities in October compared with a year ago, pushed up by rising sales and a decline in the supply of available homes
Top chefs join call for gender-neutral Easy-Bake
Some well-known male chefs are getting behind a New Jersey girl's call for Hasbro to make a gender-neutral Easy-Bake Oven. Chefs including Manuel ...
End may be sight for FBI's unloved Hoover building
Just six blocks from the White House, the FBI's hulking headquarters overlooking Pennsylvania Avenue has long been the government building everyone ...
MTV renovates House of Style, looks behind scenes
The "House of Style" that MTV built back in 1989 has undergone some serious renovation, but it always had good bones. The show's past and present come ...
Zippers and "Bo-flakes" deck the White House
"Bo-flakes" featuring the first dog and ornaments fashioned from zippers are among the new twists on traditional favorites at the White House this ...
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