Obama To Address Wealth Inequality In Upcoming State Of The Union Address
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will announce a new plan next week to help Americans who continue to struggle to find jobs even as the economy recovers from recession, his senior adviser,...
View ArticleCrafts Retailer Michaels Investigating Possible Data Breach Involving Credit...
BOSTON (Reuters) - Michaels Companies Inc, the biggest U.S. arts and crafts retailer, said it is investigating a possible security breach on its payment card network and advised customers to check...
View ArticleThe Snowden Operation: Did The American Whistleblower Act Alone?
A new book looks at the damage the fugitive American whistleblower and his Snowdenistas are doing to Western interestsEdward Snowden is, in the eyes of many, a secular saint. The fugitive NSA...
View ArticleIMF: Taper Of US Stimulus Funds Could Mean Emerging Market Turmoil
The International Monetary Fund is closely monitoring recent events in the world's emerging markets amid concerns that the withdrawal of monetary stimulus by the US will add to the turmoil caused by...
View ArticleIs It Time For The West To Stop Calling It 'Kiev' And Start Calling It 'Kyiv'?
For the past few months, Business Insider has been following the rapidly intensifying anti-government protests within Ukraine, watching as the Maidan Nezalezhnosti in Kiev becomes more and more...
View Article9 Ways To Get Bloggers Talking About Your Brand
What is one surefire tip for getting bloggers to talk about your brand?The following answers are provided by the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC), an invite-only organization comprised of the world’s...
View ArticleRobotic Gas Pumps Are Coming Soon
Pumping gas is a real pain. It involves actually getting out of your car, moving the muscles in your legs and arms and surrounding yourself with outside air. But one company plans to introduce robotic...
View ArticleInside The Billionaires' Superyachts: Helipads, Tennis Courts, And Missile...
He has designed some of the biggest and most spectacular yachts ever to set sail and can offer just about anything a seafaring billionaire's heart desires – from tennis courts to personal submarines,...
View ArticleArizona GOP Censures Senator John McCain For 'Liberal' Record
Arizona Republicans approve resolution censuring Sen. McCain for 'liberal' voting recordPHOENIX (AP) — The Arizona Republican Party formally censured Sen. John McCain on Saturday, citing a voting...
View ArticleDove's Short Film Reveals The Painfully Honest Way Young Women View Themselves
"In the mirror I cover my arm, like part of it, to make it more narrow," a teenage girl tells her mother."I would have never guessed you did that in the mirror," her mom replies.The above is from...
View ArticleThis Map Shows The Global Divide On Homosexuality
With the impending Sochi Olympics in Russia taking place in a tense atmosphere following anti-gay measures passed by Moscow in 2013, India's re-criminalization of homosexuality, and the surprise...
View ArticleThe 25 US High Schools With The Highest Standardized Test Scores
Here's an awesome chart that looks at the areas of the country that are killing it in the standardized testing arena.While some universities and employers, like Google and IBM, are downplaying the...
View Article11 Extremely Successful People Share Their Best Productivity Hacks
Most of us have had those days when we've come in to work, been confronted by a massive to-do list, and had no idea how to get it all accomplished.For people running large organizations, that can be...
View ArticleDRONES: Commercial Drones Are Becoming A Reality, With Huge Impacts For Many...
Not too long ago, when most people heard the word “drones,” they thought of unmanned military aircraft engaged in highly controversial clandestine operations. But when Jeff Bezos announced that Amazon...
View ArticleA Classy Way To Admit Your Startup Is Dead
Chris Poole created the insanely popular and infamous message board site 4chan way back when he was only 15. Since then, he's launched a company called Canvas, which he pivoted into a drawing-based art...
View ArticleMouthwashes May Increase Risk Of Heart Attack
Using antiseptic mouthwash can increase the risk of heart attacks and strokes, a new study has found.Scientists branded the products, regularly used by half a million Britons, a health “disaster”...
View ArticleWhy Palm Beach, Florida Is The 'New Greenwich' For Wall Streeters
Behind a semicircular brick drive and a lawn as manicured as a putting green sits a 30,000-square-foot masterpiece of Italian Renaissance architecture called Casa Nana.John Porter, a real estate...
View ArticleHere's A Chart Of Interest Rates Going Back To 3000 BC
The chart below, one of a number of excellent long-term charts put together by @Macro_Tourist, shows interest rates going back to 3000 BC.A PDF with more charts as well as the one below can be found...
View ArticleThis Heat Map Reveals The Secret To IKEA's Store Design
In our recent tour of IKEA's store in Brooklyn, we kept thinking back to a 2011 lecture from Alan Penn of the UCL Bartlett School of Architecture.Penn and his assistants analyzed IKEA's layout by...
View ArticleBAD OMEN: Birds Attack Peace Doves Freed From Pope's Window
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Two white doves that were released by children standing alongside Pope Francis as a peace gesture have been attacked by other birds.As tens of thousands of people watched in St....
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