Even your lifespan can be local. Researchers have long said that health disparities are heavily influenced by where you live. New data from the National Center for Health Statistics show just how much your neighborhood can impact the length of ...
Read More »Apple deepens Austin ties, expands operations east and west
Apple will build a $1 billion campus in Austin, Texas, break ground on smaller locations in Seattle, San Diego and Culver City, California, and over the next three years expand in Pittsburgh, New York and Colorado. The tech giant said ...
Read More »Sting uses fake Amazon boxes, GPS to catch would-be thieves
The explosion in online shopping has led to porch pirates and stoop surfers swiping holiday packages from unsuspecting residents. The cops in one New Jersey city are trying to catch the thieves with some trickery of their own. Police in ...
Read More »US consumer prices flat in November as energy plunges
U.S. consumer prices were unchanged in November, the best performance since prices actually fell eight months ago. The docile inflation reading reflected a big drop in the cost of gasoline and other energy products. The Labor Department said Wednesday that ...
Read More »Google grilled in Congress: What’s ahead for tech companies
U.S. lawmakers’ grilling of Google CEO Sundar Pichai may have sounded like a broken record, but it amplified the prickly issues facing tech companies as Democrats prepare to take control of the House next month. The 3 1/2-hour hearing Tuesday ...
Read More »Verizon takes $4.6B charge on internet ventures
Shares of Verizon slipped before the opening bell Wednesday with the company taking a $4.6 billion hit on what’s become an expensive internet foray that’s never panned out. In a regulatory filing late Tuesday, Verizon Communications Inc. said it will ...
Read More »Artificial dyes fading, but food will still get color boosts
Many companies including McDonald’s and Kellogg are purging artificial colors from their foods, but don’t expect your cheeseburgers or cereal to look much different. Colors send important signals about food, and companies aren’t going to stop playing into those perceptions. ...
Read More »Panel refuses to separate baby cases from other opioid suits
A panel of judges says lawsuits filed on behalf of babies born in withdrawal from opioids should be considered by the same judge who is presiding in hundreds of claims from local governments against the drug industry. The Judicial Panel ...
Read More »Marlboro maker places $2.4 billion bet on marijuana
One of the world’s biggest tobacco companies is diving into the cannabis market with a $2.4 billion buy-in. Marlboro-maker Altria Group Inc. is taking a 45 percent stake in Cronos Group, the Canadian medical and recreational marijuana provider said Friday. ...
Read More »Letters from law firm outline Bush’s business acumen
Never-before published personal correspondence from George H.W. Bush in the archives of Houston law firm Baker Botts capture a period in the late president’s life that is often overshadowed by his political accomplishments: his career as an entrepreneur who helped ...
Read More »Death becomes her: Women make inroads in funeral industry
A training program for the next generation of morticians and undertakers is testament to a change that is slowly remaking the funeral business. Sixty of the 75 students in the program at the State University of New York Canton are ...
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