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Bernard Madoff's scheme has left dozens of banking firms and private citizens out of billions of dollars. It turns out Madoff's hedge fund was really a pyramid scheme. Henry Blodget, editor of clusterstock.com, discusses who's affected and how much they lost.

In the wake of the Rev. Jesse Jackson's off-the-cuff remarks about Sen. Barack Obama, an ardent critic has emerged: Jackson's son, Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. Jack White, a contributor to TheRoot.com, talks about the changing of the guard in black leadership.

The federal government announced this week it would bail out insurance giant AIG. So where does the government get a spare $85 billion? Slate.com's Samantha Henig has the answer.

Verizon's purchase of Yahoo will close the book on one of the oldest Internet companies. What happened to the other famous '90s brands, like GeoCities, Netscape and CompuServe? A nerdy remembrance.

While a significant portion of the Super Bowl watching audience are around for the ads, it's not just the TV-watching audience to which those ads are geared. Here's a few notable ads to watch Sunday.

Millions of home listings on Realtor.com now include information about climate change-driven flood risk. Other real estate sites are holding off.

The hackers put out Islamic State propaganda and published what they said was a phone list of retired U.S. generals. U.S. Central Command sees it "purely as a case of cybervandalism."

For 11 minutes around 7 p.m. ET on Thursday, Trump's Twitter feed fell silent. Twitter says it was the work of a "customer support employee" on their last day on the job.

The debate began harmoniously, but quickly turned into the kind of lively affair we've come to expect. For much of the night, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz was the subject of attacks.

Bernie Sanders compared Internet speeds in America to Romania — in a bad way. Romanians responded.