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Ramadan, the ninth month of the Islamic lunar calendar, is a time of fasting, reflection, prayer and community for Muslims around the world. This year, Ramadan began on the evening of Tuesday, Feb. 17 ...

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In Texas, a candidate must get 50% plus one vote to win an election. If no candidate reaches that threshold, a runoff election is triggered between the top two vote-getters. Runoff elections for the ...

Shreyas Sen is the Founder and CTO of Quasistatics, Inc. (dba Ixana), which develops Wi-R, a wireless body-area communication technology. He owns shares in the company. How do headphones, toys, ...

Knowledge is power—especially when it comes to budgeting. After all, if you don’t know where your capital is going, how can you identify which expenditures are critical and which can be trimmed? It’s ...

WASHINGTON — When you watch raindrops fall from the sky, they might look slow, but each drop actually reaches a steady top speed as it falls. There’s a little duel in the sky: gravity is pulling the ...

The summer before my freshman year of college, I met up with some girls from my university’s cross-country team to go for a long run on local trails. Before the run, my teammates informed us that the ...

MILAN, Metropolitan City of Milan — The Winter Olympics are here and with various down-hill sports on the schedule, here are some of the fastest out there. There are multiple ski-based sports, but ...