The familiar tick-tock of wall clocks originates from the escapement mechanism, which controls gear movement in precise steps. While our brains perceive two distinct sounds, clocks actually produce ...

Columnist captures the tick-tock stress of Christmas shopping, from Black Friday crowds to Cyber Monday deals.

It's all part of the best Black Friday sales, of course, with Amazon really taking charge today – actual Black Friday. It's ...

To the editor: Something I don’t think most people understand is the massive advantage the U.S. economy holds because the dollar is, by and large, the currency the world has adopted. That powerful ...

We can draw a few conclusions from an off-year election, when iconic races in blue states went, as expected, overwhelmingly Democratic. Nevertheless, there is only a year left before the midterms. So ...

The American penny is history. The nickel might be next.The last pennies were pressed at the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia on Wednesday, a victim of production costs higher than their worth coupled with ...

For more than 43 years, clock master Jim Gramlich has given much of his life to the downtown clock, which was dedicated on its current location on Feb. 26, 1982 19th-century tower clock will strike ...

As sports gambling accusations spread through Major League Baseball, the NBA and college basketball, the NCAA has one week to decide whether to adopt a proposed rule change that would allow college ...