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Scientists Say Americans Becoming Weather Wimps; Statistics Prove It
We've become weather wimps. As the world warms, the United States is getting fewer bitter cold spells like the one that gripped much of the nation last week. So when a deep freeze strikes, scientists ...
3 More Well-Known But Unidentified Retailers Were Breach Victims: Reuters
Target Corp. and Neiman Marcus are not the only U.S. retailers whose networks were breached over the holiday shopping season last year, according to sources familiar with attacks on other merchants ...
Economic Cost of January Freeze Put at $5B, Insurance Costs Not Available Yet
Hunkering down at home rather than going to work, canceling thousands of flights and repairing burst pipes from the Midwest to the Southeast has its price. By one estimate, about $5 billion. The ...
W. Va. Chemical Spill Brings State Capital to Standstill
A chemical spill left the water for 300,000 people in and around West Virginia's capital city stained blue-green and smelling like licorice, with officials saying Friday it was unclear when it might ...
Privacy Groups Worried About Gmail Links to Google+ Network
A new feature in Google Inc.'s Gmail will result in some users receiving messages from people with whom they have not shared their email addresses, raising concerns among some privacy advocates. The ...
FINRA, SEC Targeting Firms Giving Bad 401(k) Rollover Advice
Brokers who give retiring workers bad advice about what to do with their 401(k) plans should expect some headaches: U.S. securities regulators are taking a closer look at what happens when investors ...
Supreme Court to Hear Broadcasters’ Copyright Case
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear a closely watched appeal filed by the four major broadcasters against an online television service, Aereo Inc., backed by media mogul Barry Diller that ...
Judge Strine Nominated to Lead Delaware’s Supreme Court
Leo Strine, the outspoken chief judge of Delaware's nationally important business court, has been nominated to lead the state's Supreme Court, Delaware Governor Jack Markell said last Wednesday. The ...