Returns of toys and gadgets add up to more than $260 billion every year. Optoro, a startup in Maryland, tries to reduce the cost to retailers, and the cost to the environment.
Addiction will be on the agenda for a lot of state legislatures in the coming year. Overdose deaths related to abuse of prescription opioids and heroin are setting records across the country.
The new law, which goes into effect Jan. 1, aims to close the wage gap between men and women by requiring employers to pay both genders the same when they do "substantially similar" work.
Hold out your hand for a century, and 100 million particles of dark matter will pass through each second without leaving a trace. Still, a physicist in South Dakota thinks he may be able to catch one.
The year-end release of correspondence from Clinton's time at the State Department falls short of the court-ordered requirements. 275 of the new emails have been retroactively classified.
A few cities, including Paris and Brussels, have canceled fireworks over fears of terrorist attacks. But in most of the world's major cities, celebrations are going forward as planned.
Campaign manager Barry Bennett and communications director Doug Watts have both stepped down from the Republican's struggling presidential campaign just a month before the Iowa caucuses.