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Google plans to kill off its auto-insurance comparison tool, according to industry sources

Google plans to kill off its auto-insurance comparison tool, according to industry sources

  Google could be on the verge of killing off the car-insurance comparison tool it rolled out last year. Joshua Dziabiak, COO of a rivalcar-insurance comparison… Read More ›

Uber stands by policies in wake of Kalamazoo shooting, even after getting complaints of erratic driving

Uber stands by policies in wake of Kalamazoo shooting, even after getting complaints of erratic driving

  Uber is standing by its safety background checks in the wake of the shootings in Michigan. Detectives believe that Uber driver Jason Dalton shot eight… Read More ›

Valeant is Tanking

Valeant is Tanking

  Embattled Canadian drugmaker Valeant Pharmaceuticals may have to restate its earnings results, The Wall Street Journal reports, citing unnamed sources. The stock was last trading… Read More ›

New York – CDC: Elevated Cancer Risk In Lumber Liquidators Laminate Flooring, Stock Plunges

New York – CDC: Elevated Cancer Risk In Lumber Liquidators Laminate Flooring, Stock Plunges

  New York – Lumber Liquidators’ stock plunged Monday as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now says people exposed to certain types of… Read More ›

Washington – Video: Joe Biden Argued For Delaying Supreme Court Picks In 1992

Washington – Video: Joe Biden Argued For Delaying Supreme Court Picks In 1992

Washington – Vice President Joe Biden says Supreme Court vacancies should be filled even in an election year despite his comments suggesting the contrary in… Read More ›

Washington – Seas Are Rising Way Faster Than Any Time In Past 2,800 Years

Washington – Seas Are Rising Way Faster Than Any Time In Past 2,800 Years

  Washington –  Sea levels on Earth are rising several times faster than they have in the past 2,800 years and are accelerating because of… Read More ›

Agreement reached in deadly caste protests in India

Agreement reached in deadly caste protests in India

Off and on throughout India’s history, the country’s caste system has provoked violence over rights and opportunities. One such conflict was resolved Monday, with the… Read More ›

El Chapo’s beauty queen wife says she fears for his life

El Chapo’s beauty queen wife says she fears for his life

Atlanta – The wife of Sinaloa cartel boss Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman says she fears for her husband’s life and that the Mexican government is using… Read More ›

North Korea offered — then rebuffed — talks with U.S.

North Korea offered — then rebuffed — talks with U.S.

  Washington – North Korea quietly reached out to U.S. officials through the United Nations in New York last fall to propose formal peace talks on… Read More ›

Rash of Gaza suicides points to rising poverty, despair

Rash of Gaza suicides points to rising poverty, despair

In contrast to the West Bank, life in the Strip just keeps on getting worse. And yet Hamas rule is under no threat   Media… Read More ›

Veteran nuclear expert: Iran deal could make things worse

Veteran nuclear expert: Iran deal could make things worse

Dr. Ephraim Asculai releases book with accounts of Israeli Atomic Energy Commission’s early days.   A senior Israeli nuclear researcher cast doubt on the nuclear… Read More ›

Saudi Arabia is facing a looming ‘catastrophe’

Saudi Arabia is facing a looming ‘catastrophe’

  Saudi Arabia is facing a looming disaster in the next three decades as the country is steadily running through its supply of nonrenewable groundwater… Read More ›

The biggest sign it’s time to quit your job

The biggest sign it’s time to quit your job

  There are a lot of good reasons to quit a job: Your values don’t align with those of your employer; you don’t get along… Read More ›

Here’s who Yahoo could approach as soon as Monday to buy its core business

Here’s who Yahoo could approach as soon as Monday to buy its core business

  Yahoo’s board announced on Friday that it hadcreated an independent committee to start looking for “strategic alternatives” to spinning off its core business —… Read More ›

A SEC filing reveals some uncomfortable truths about how stock trading works on Wall Street

A SEC filing reveals some uncomfortable truths about how stock trading works on Wall Street

  A new filing from the Securities and Exchange Commission sheds light on a few uncomfortable aspects of the stock research and trading business. The… Read More ›

Washington – Sanders In Congress: A Mix Of Victories, Quixotic Efforts

Washington – Sanders In Congress: A Mix Of Victories, Quixotic Efforts

  Washington –  Bernie Sanders came to Washington as an activist, not a legislator. The Democratic presidential candidate has preferred rabble-rousing to the schmoozing required… Read More ›

New York – Gas Prices Drop 5 Cents Over Past 2 Weeks, To $1.77 Share Tweet Share Mail

New York – Gas Prices Drop 5 Cents Over Past 2 Weeks, To $1.77 Share Tweet Share Mail

  New York – The average price of gasoline has dropped 5 cents over the past two weeks, to $1.77 a gallon. Industry analyst Trilby… Read More ›

Banned Islamist group suspected behind slaying of Hindu priest in Bangladesh

Banned Islamist group suspected behind slaying of Hindu priest in Bangladesh

  Dhaka, Bangladesh – A Hindu priest was killed and a devotee injured in northern Bangladesh on Sunday in the latest attack on minority religious figures… Read More ›

In Syria, dozens killed as bombers strike in Homs and Damascus, regime says

In Syria, dozens killed as bombers strike in Homs and Damascus, regime says

ISIS has claimed responsibility for multiple attacks in strongholds of the Syrian regime Sunday that killed at least 122 people and scores of others injured,… Read More ›

Kalamazoo Uber driver picked up fares between killings, source says

Kalamazoo Uber driver picked up fares between killings, source says

Kalamazoo, Michigan – The man accused of killing six people and injuring two more in a Saturday evening shooting rampage in Kalamazoo, Michigan, was an Uber… Read More ›