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Foreign investment in Cuba might be at risk if U.S. allows lawsuits over confiscated property
Cuba's efforts to attract foreign investment to boost its ailing economy were limping along even before the Trump ... Read More
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Worried about a slowing economy, Fed officials want to maintain a key stimulus program
Amid growing worries about a slowing economy, Federal Reserve officials indicated at their meeting last month that they plan later this year to stop paring back a key stimulus program put in place in the wake of the Great ...Read more
Nearly 150 years later, the buffalo slaughter hangs over American Indian wealth, study finds
Eight years ago, an economist produced a new theory that international trade played a major role in an American tragedy: the immense killing in the late 19th century that brought the North American bison close to ...Read more
Haiti's economic lifeline has taken a hit. Expedia just made it worse
PORT-AU-PRINCE -- Haiti's tourism sector is up in arms over recent travel warnings from the U.S., Canada and France that have led to at least one booking company -- Expedia -- blacklisting the country's two international ...Read more
Marriott workers' lawsuit says inconsistent schedules and credit union loans are a predatory mix
PHILADELPHIA -- Hourly Marriott workers in Philadelphia are in the midst of a lawsuit against the Marriott Employees Federal Credit Union, saying the credit union's $500 mini-loans are predatory and lack transparency on ...Read more
Airlines make you say you're male or female. Coming soon: a nonbinary gender option
When people buy plane tickets, they have to select a "gender" option: male or female. But those two categories don't cover everyone, so some major airlines are planning to offer more choices.
Airlines for America and the ...Read more
Chicago officials will start tracking businesses that sell CBD products. Here's why
CHICAGO -- As CBD products become more common on store shelves throughout Chicago, city officials are keeping track of businesses that say they are selling the increasingly trendy products.
The move comes as officials ...Read more
Step It Up
Remember the old days?
Remember when your boss tracked the amount of work you did?
Not anymore.
Now, employers don't care about how much work you do. Now, the only thing employers track is how many steps you take.
In...Read more
Knowing When a Job Is Worth Keeping
Q: My title is manager but I am not allowed to manage anything. I am supposed to oversee a gated community of homes. The reality is that I have no authority to act as a manager, and I have to take up every issue I'm made...Read more
Managers sue Aramark over 2018 bonuses; seeking class-action status
Two Aramark managers filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday in Philadelphia alleging that the food-, building-, and uniform-services giant broke a contract when it decided this month not to pay 2018 bonuses to thousands of lower-...Read more
Talks between Trump administration and California over fuel-economy standards break down
WASHINGTON -- Already-faltering negotiations between the Trump administration and California aimed at resolving a dispute over fuel-economy standards have broken down completely, according to a top Democratic lawmaker.
...Read more
Yelp fired manager after he didn't take calls, check email '24/7/365,' lawsuit claims
Mark Weathers' path to termination at Yelp started with an email his boss sent him a few minutes before midnight on Good Friday. Weathers didn't answer it, because he wasn't checking his email a few minutes before midnight...Read more
Mark Zuckerberg talks privacy, accidentally disses Facebook Portal
Talking about the future of technology, which is Mark Zuckerberg's personal challenge this year, can be hard, as the Facebook CEO has found out over the years -- whether it's before Congress or on television.
So it seems ...Read more
Consumer Confidential: FDA's vampire warning highlights billionaires' obsession with not growing old
The federal government finally took a stand this week on vampires feasting on the blood of the young.
It's against the practice.
Actually, the Food and Drug Administration issued a warning about older people injecting ...Read more
Google Nest Guard has a microphone, but it didn't say that on the box
Google has admitted that Nest Guard, the keypad and motion sensor device that's part of the Nest Secure system, has a built-in microphone whose existence the company failed to disclose in any of the product's literature.
...Read more
Foreign correspondent Lara Logan has left CBS News
Foreign correspondent Lara Logan, once a rising star at CBS News with her war reporting, quietly exited the network last year.
Logan, whose reporting was mostly seen on "60 Minutes" in recent years, left after her last ...Read more
Michael Hiltzik: Courts hammer Trump for sabotaging Obamacare, in rulings that could cost the Treasury billions
Legal experts thought that one of President Trump's cruder attacks on the Affordable Care Act would come back to bite him once the courts took a crack at it.
Court rulings have flooded in over the last few weeks, and the ...Read more
Tech Q&A: Here's how to block more junk e-mail
Q: My Outlook e-mail program keeps receiving similar spam messages, even though I've labeled them as junk and blocked their senders. These e-mails have little rectangles between the letters in the subject line, and come ...Read more
Social Security and You: High Anxiety and Social Security Maximizing Madness
My wife used to thank me, with her tongue firmly planted in her cheek, for never being rich. She would say, "It seems to me that the more money people have, the more they worry about it."
And gosh, did those words of ...Read more
No Such Thing as a 'Little' Sale
On our 25th wedding anniversary, my wife gave me some beautiful diamond cuff links. Unfortunately, I could not find French cuff shirts in Dallas.
On a speaking engagement in Burlington, Iowa, I was told of a store in Fort...Read more
Who is Jonathon Morgan? Researcher makes a name — and finds controversy — in cybersecurity world
AUSTIN, Texas -- Long before Jonathon Morgan worked with U.S. intelligence officials or made headlines for controversial social media activity, he was a 21-year-old dad seeking to connect with other young parents.
That ...Read more
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