How CEOs predict the future
In the lead-up to war in Ukraine, a few prescient companies increased their presence in the country, securing an influential position as competitors fled. The ability to foresee major events…
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Stop hiding money offshore, IRS warns tax cheats
In addition, a new set of reporting rules are being phased in under the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act that will require many foreign financial institutions to report accounts held…
Alibaba is a better bet than Yahoo
Alibaba will report its fiscal third quarter earnings on Thursday morning. This is the second earnings report for Alibaba since its initial public offering in September. The stock rose more…
Obamacare Nears Major Goal With One Month To Go
More than 9.5 million people have signed up for private health insurance coverage this year using the Obamacare exchanges, the Department of Health and Human Services disclosed Tuesday, putting the…
Space Shuttle Columbia Fast Facts
The Columbia Accident Investigation Board determined that the cause of the accident was a piece of insulating foam that broke off and struck a hole in the leading edge of…
Former Senate Intel Chair Strikes Back At CIA For Spying
WASHINGTON — Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the former chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, struck back at the CIA Tuesday, blasting the spies for failing to hold personnel accountable for…
CNN’s Brian Stelter Gives Upside Down Report During Blizzard
Conflicting reports concerning the severity of Tuesday’s blizzard have left many New Yorkers feeling confused. But CNN’s Brian Stelter may have come through with the most disorienting report yet. –…
Argentina’s President pushes intelligence shakeup after Nisman scandal
Kirchner has sent a draft bill to the country’s parliament which, if passed, would mean the Secretariat of Intelligence (SI) is replaced by the Federal Intelligence Agency. In a taped…
Vanderbilt Rape Case Defendant: No Memory Of Alleged Assault
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A former Vanderbilt football player charged with rape told a jury Monday that he can’t remember a dorm room sexual assault that prosecutors say he and…
Indonesian minister’s puzzle: Why was AirAsia jet the only one in trouble?
That’s the big question on the mind of Indonesia’s Transportation Minister as investigators finish preparing the initial report into the crash last month of the Airbus A320-200 with 162 passengers…
Chinese mother tries to sells newborn boy for $7,000
Yang sold the baby boy to a couple in the same county for 42,000 yuan. She gave 35,000 yuan to Huang and kept 7,000 yuan for herself, the report said….
Vanderbilt Rape Trial Evidence: Several People Failed To Intervene For Unconscious Woman
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Defense attorneys for the former Vanderbilt University football players whose own cellphones show they participated in a dorm-room sex assault have placed blame on the elite…
CIA Torture Report Sinks A Little More, As Agencies Don’t Bother To Read It
WASHINGTON — When the new Senate Intelligence Committee chairman, Richard Burr (R-N.C.), announced that, allegedly unbeknownst to him, the former chairwoman had widely distributed the panel’s study of CIA torture,…
Your Car’s Engine Roar Might Be Totally Fake
Do you feel really tough when you rev your engine and peel out of the driveway? Turns out that satisfying roar might all be a lie. “Fake engine noise has…
Senate Intelligence Committee Democrats Prepare To Battle New GOP Chairman On CIA Torture Report
WASHINGTON — Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee are gearing up to fight their new Republican chairman’s attempts to reclaim the panel’s report on the CIA’s torture program, setting the…
Many spouses are cheating
The report is based on a survey of 1,000 adults living in the U.S. – Chicago Mercantile Association: Certain market data is the property of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. and…
Rep. Barbara Lee Says She ‘Will Not Seek’ Nomination To Be Ambassador To Cuba
WASHINGTON — Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) is denying a report that she and President Barack Obama have a “gentlewoman’s agreement” to make her the next ambassador to Cuba, should he…
Nearly All Public University Campus Cops Now Carry Guns, Pepper Spray
Nearly all campus police officers at public universities now carry guns, pepper spray and other weapons, according to a new Justice Department report, and experts say more private schools are…
California’s Former Prisoners Often Don’t Know They Can Vote, Study Finds
With severe overcrowding, abuse allegations and controversial sentencing laws, California’s prison system is a knotty political topic that often appears on the ballot. But according to a new study, many…
Looking for Jim Webb’s 2016 vision? Check Twitter
For the last two-months, Webb has been tweeting about criminal justice reform, mental health issues and efforts to increase middle class incomes. He has urged the United States to reshape…
Prosecutor in 1994 Buenos Aires Jewish center bombing found dead
Nisman, who had been under the protection of a 10-member security detail, was set to testify Monday to lawmakers on a report alleging that President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and…
Wealthiest 1% will soon own more than rest of us combined, Oxfam says
So says a new report, which estimates that by next year the richest 1% will have as much wealth as the other 99%. “The richest 1% have seen their share…
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The end of Google Glass, or a new beginning? Twitter has its say
Google has announced it will stop producing Google Glass in its present form. In a statement posted to its Google + account, the company said it would still be working…
Issa’s portrait removed from committee he chaired
Issa’s final IRS report spreads blame, slams ‘culture of bias’ In their place, pictures of everyday Americans will be hung in an effort to remind lawmakers why they are there….
Trafficked Chinese boy reunited with family after 24 years apart
On Tuesday, Sun was finally reacquainted with his aging father, Sun Youhong, and a younger sister he had never met. The moment was captured in a moving series of photographs….
Families wait and pray as divers search for bodies in AirAsia QZ8501’s fuselage
She and her four sisters have been waiting for news of their only brother, Saiful Rakhmad, a father of three children. More than two weeks after the plane went down,…
States where taxes hit the poor hardest
“No-income-tax states like Washington, Texas and Florida do, in fact, have average-to-low taxes overall. However, they are far from ‘low-tax’ for poor families,” the report notes. In Illinois, there is…
Heroin deaths up for 3rd year in a row
How heroin kills you That means 5,927 people died after using heroin in 2012 and that number jumped to 8,260 deaths in 2013. Those are the latest numbers available. This…
IRS Scandal Fast Facts
Other Facts:The investigation into the email disappearance, which the IRS said was due to a crash of former IRS official Lois Lerner’s hard drive, is part of a wider criminal…