In 2003, the San Francisco-based Union Bank adopted a new practice that allowed it to begin charging its customers more overdraft fees. Now, the customers are fighting back — and they’re doing it en masse. On Tuesday, a Florida federal judge ruled that customers who have been charged excessive overdraft fees can sue Union Bank [...]
We’re fascinated by odd celebrity friendships, and this particular paring has to be one of the strangest ever. Actress Emma Stone has revealed that she’s pals with Beatles legend Paul McCartney! This brings up all sorts of questions, like, how did they meet and what do they do when they hang out? Well, we can tell you. [...]
WASHINGTON — The nation’s health care tab is on track to hit $4.6 trillion in 2020, accounting for about $1 of every $5 in the economy, government number crunchers estimate in a report released Thursday. How much is that? Including government and private money, health care spending in 2020 will average $13,710 for every man, [...]
Exxon Mobil Corp, the world’s largest publicly traded oil company, said higher oil prices contributed to a 41 percent rise in its second-quarter profit, but results fell short of expectations. Shares of the Irving, Texas company fell 1.5 percent to $82.02 in premarket trading. Exxon reported a profit of $10.68 billion, or $2.18 per share, [...]
Guns, cigarettes, shootings…it’s your everyday gangster movie! Except sadly um, this is real life. Rachel Avila, a 30-year-old mother, tried to light her cigarette with a gun but instead, had the bullet ricochet off the ground and hit her daughter. To be fair, because the gun, a derringer style .22, was so small, Avila thought [...]
FAIRFIELD, Connecticut (Lynnley Browning) – If you want to know why tax from surging corporate profits isn’t making much of a dent in the United States’ crippling budget deficit, a glance at Microsoft Corp’s recent results provides some clues. Things were rosy in the giant software company’s just-ended fiscal fourth quarter, which produced record sales [...]
An old man dies. Such is life, my son. And for all our sadness, life surely must go on. Except when the old man didn’t actually die, and woke up inside the morgue a day later. Then it’s time for an explanation. Like, what? A 80-year-old South African man got the rudest of awakenings yesterday [...]
Ford Motor Co plans to build a $900 million production plant in India, doubling its investment in the country, as the U.S. carmaker seeks to catch up with rivals in the second-fastest growing auto market in the world. Foreign car makers have been ramping up investment in a price-conscious Indian market, where small cars are [...]
In sleepy Raleigh, North Carolina sits Peace College—not a hippie school, as you would suspect, but a women’s college, which is basically the same thing. But not for long! Peace has announced plans to let dudes attends. But, as a compromise, they will remain segregated in classes. Way to satisfy no one at all! Inside Higher Ed [...]
When it comes to ridiculous and unnecessary products, British-born luxury gadget guru Stuart Hughes has the game on lock. Hughes, and his wife Katherine, create and sell unique one-of-a-kind luxury pieces that hold price tags that will blow your mind. From iced out iPhones and gold PS3s to platinum Macbooks and gold and diamond-encrusted plasma [...]
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