(Bloomberg) — Morgan Stanley agreed to pay $2.6 billion to settle probes into its creation and sale of residential mortgage-backed securities, as the U.S. Department...
TIA GOLDENBERG, Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — When Israelis go to the polls next month, tens of thousands of Jewish settlers in the West Bank will...
(Yahoo) – Hollywood’s racial and gender diversity is increasing. But it’s not increasing quickly enough, says Darnell Hunt, lead author of the second annual Hollywood Diversity...
(The Washington Post) – Georgia will no longer require job applicants to disclose their criminal histories on employment forms after Gov. Nathan Deal (R) signed...
JENNIFER KAY, Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — The mother of Trayvon Martin says she’s disappointed that federal prosecutors decided not to charge a neighborhood watch volunteer...
(Chicago Reporter) – The City of Chicago paid $54.2 million in settlements and verdicts for police misconduct cases last year, including more than $9.5 million...
(Business Insider) – Earlier this week, it came out that Lenovo had shipped a piece of software called Superfish on a bunch of new computers....
(Reuters) – Apple Inc. has been ordered to pay $532.9 million after a federal jury in Texas found that its iTunes software infringed three patents...
(Forbes) – Tomorrow, the FCC is voting on its long-awaited net neutrality rule. Everyone is hoping for a huge, enormous victory for the open Internet...
ALAN FRAM, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama’s health secretary told Congress Tuesday that she has no administrative actions available to fix the “massive...
(Fox News) – Cosmeticians probably won’t agree, but scientists say eyelashes have an optimal length: a third of the width of the eye. This ratio...
(Forbes) – Microsoft has been giving away a lot of freebies through their cloud computing storage service OneDrive lately. Last week, Microsoft gave away 100GB of free storage for two...
JOSEPH PISANI, AP Business Writers ANNE D’INNOCENZIO, AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — The owner of T.J. Maxx, Marshalls and HomeGoods stores became the latest...
(Reuters) – New U.S. single-family home sales fell only slightly in January despite big declines in the snow-battered Northeast while supply rose to its highest level...
TOM KRISHER, AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Buick is the first U.S.-based automotive brand to crack the top 10 in Consumer Reports magazine’s annual brand...
(Fox Business) – With more than 27,500 open internships across the U.S., according to Glassdoor data, now is the time for college students and young professionals to...
DAVID McFADDEN, Associated Press KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Jamaican lawmakers on Tuesday night passed an act to decriminalize small amounts of pot and establish a licensing...
(Bloomberg) – Emerging markets in Asia and Africa still reign supreme: They’re at the top of global growth projections over the next two years. The world...
LUZ DARY DEPABLOS, Associated Press HANNAH DREIER, Associated Press SAN CRISTOBAL, Venezuela (AP) — A 14-year-old boy died Tuesday after being shot in the head during...
(USA Today) – LeBron James Jr. is already showing signs of following in his father’s phenomenal footsteps. He’s led his team to an AAU national...
AUBURN HILLS, Mich. (AP) — Showing off his all-around game, LeBron James broke Scottie Pippen’s NBA record for career assists by a forward when he found...
[fvplayer src=”https://youtube.com/watch?v=cMqmazGYBns” splash=”https://i.ytimg.com/vi/cMqmazGYBns/sddefault.jpg”] (Bleacher Report) – Dallas Mavericks point guard Rajon Rondo joined the team in mid-December, but it looks like he is already butting heads...
DAVID BAUDER, AP Television Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Lester Holt’s audience shot up by more than half a million viewers on his second week filling...
(CNN) – Heidi Thomas has one question for Bill Cosby, “Look me in the eyes. Do you remember me? Do you remember me?” Thomas says she has...
DAVID BAUDER, AP Television Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Two prominent television personalities are accused within weeks of each other of misrepresenting their wartime reporting experiences...
