[BLOOMBERG BUSINESSWEEK] While most of the folks at McDonald’s (MCD) are selling burgers, some are busy putting out fires. In just the past six weeks or so, Massachusetts...
[THE NEW YORK TIMES] Some 96,000 borrowers who received checks to compensate them for wrongful foreclosures on their mortgages will be getting an additional check to correct for...
[NNPA] By Lyndia Grant Special to the NNPA from the Washington Informer If you pray, you’ve got the key to the kingdom. And by faith, you’ll...
[THE WASHINGTON POST] Until it happened to him, Itzhak Brook, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at Georgetown University School of Medicine, didn’t think much about the...
[UPI] Hundreds of millions of patients every year worldwide get healthcare-associated infections, but handwashing could prevent half of them, U.N. officials say. Officials at the World...
[LOS ANGELES TIMES] n the face of mounting criticisms and sluggish PC sales, Microsoft continues to insist that its gamble on the radically redesigned Windows 8...
[THE WASHINGTON POST] Several prominent liberal organizations are launching a boycott of Facebook, an escalation in the simmering feud over founder Mark Zuckerberg’s immigration reform push....
[SF GATE] Few people have worn or even seen Google Glass, but early reviews have made businesses and government officials wary. Already, Google Glass has already been banned...
[TIME] Most airlines view fees for baggage and ticket changes as easy, highly lucrative revenue streams. Southwest Airlines views them quite differently: If it added baggage...
[UPI] A study sponsored by the U.S. Travel Association said that every dollar invested in business travel was returned almost 10 times over in business revenue....
[LOS ANGELES TIMES] It’s the new retirement: More than four in 10 Americans think they’ll have to work into their 70s or 80s because they can’t...
[NNPA] By Roz Edward Special to the NNPA from the Atlanta Daily World According to the data found in a new report, “The Buying Power of...
[NNPA] By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent ASHVILLLE, N.C. (NNPA) – Before the end of the Great Recession, researchers at United for a Fair Economy, a...
[NNPA] By Maya Rhodan NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Whites had an average wealth of $632,000 in 2010 while Blacks had about $98,000 and Hispanics...
[ABC NEWS] We know a bad habit when we see one. Smoking? Check! Not exercising? Duh! Gorging on doughnuts? Of course! But what about, say, eating...
[REUTERS] A trade group representing makers of artificial limbs on Tuesday promised to provide prosthetics free of cost to the estimated 20 to 25 victims of...
[CNN] The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Tuesday that it approved the availability of the Plan B One-Step emergency contraception pill without a prescription for...
[NNPA NEWS WIRE SERVICE] By Rory O’Sullivan Special to the NNPA from Black Voice News Like many Americans, Gillian Minter with Fair Housing Council of Riverside...
[NNPA NEWS WIRE SERVICE] By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Marie Johns, the retired president of Washington Verizon, was busy managing a consulting...
[ABC NEWS] The daughter of Rev. Jeremiah Wright, President Obama’s controversial former pastor, has been accused of laundering money in an alleged $1.25 million fraud led by...
[ABC NEWS] The patients who lost limbs as a result of the Boston Marathon bombings might benefit from the lessons learned in treating soldier amputees injured...
[LOS ANGELES TIMES] Two months after resuming her duties on “Good Morning America,” Robin Roberts revealed she was hospitalized last week. Roberts offered the news on her Facebook page Thursday morning...
[ABC NEWS] Some of the country’s top research institutions have combined to launch a massive online archive. The Digital Public Library of America began beta testing...
[CNN MONEY] Every time you mindlessly give a sales clerk your zip code at checkout, you’re giving data companies and retailers the ability to track everything...
[REUTERS] Using a computer tool to help doctors analyze mammography images increases the number of early, non-invasive breast cancers that are caught, but also means more...
