Finance news

• AmerisourceBergen to pay $625 million in U.S. civil fraud settlement

  01-10-2018 23:51 via yahoo.com
  The settlement announced on Monday by the U.S. Department of Justice boosts AmerisourceBergen's total payout to $885 million over its repackaging and distribution of pre-filled syringes that were not approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.In September 2017, the company's AmerisourceBergen Specialty Group unit pleaded guilty to a related misdemeanor, and paid $260 million of criminal fines and forfeitures.It set aside money for the entire civil settlement in its fiscal year ended Sept.
  
  Read more

• Border Patrol Agent Must Pay $220K After Gender-Reveal Starts Massive Arizona Wildfire

  01-10-2018 23:40 via yahoo.com
  The off-duty Border Patrol agent called for help after accidentally starting the blaze.
  
  Read more

• Border Patrol Agent Must Pay $220G After Gender-Reveal Starts Massive Arizona Wildfire

  01-10-2018 23:40 via yahoo.com
  The off-duty Border Patrol agent called for help after accidentally starting the blaze.
  
  Read more

• What Kanye West Got Right and Wrong About the 13th Amendment, According to Historians

  01-10-2018 23:38 via yahoo.com
  Historians separate fact from fiction
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• What Kanye West Got Right and Wrong About 13th Amendment, According to Historians

  01-10-2018 23:38 via yahoo.com
  Historians separate fact from fiction
  
  Read more

• Correction: Abortion-Louisiana story

  01-10-2018 23:28 via yahoo.com
  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — In a story Sept. 26 about an appeals court ruling on a Louisiana abortion clinic regulation, The Associated Press misidentified the president who appointed Judge Edith Brown Clement to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Judge Clement was appointed to the appellate court by President George W. Bush, not George H.W. Bush.
  
  Read more

• 10 meme Halloween costumes for people who spend too much time online

  01-10-2018 23:25 via yahoo.com
  When you finally log off and head to a Halloween party this October 31, you'll want to let everyone know where you've spent the past 364 days: online. Luckily, while 2018 hasn't given us much in the way of good news, the meme harvest has been bountiful. And a lot of them translate nicely into Halloween costumes. SEE ALSO: Here's how you need to prank your kids this HalloweenHere are a few of the best — and, more importantly, the easiest to pull off. 1. Mason RamseyThe Walmart yodel kid is
  
  Read more

• ATF warns public after 400 guns stolen in Tennessee

  01-10-2018 23:24 via yahoo.com
  MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — About 400 guns have been stolen from a United Parcel Service facility in Memphis, Tennessee, and authorities are concerned about the theft's potential effect on public safety in this city and elsewhere.
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Key Democrat Warns Trump Not to Jam New Nafta Deal Through Congress

  01-10-2018 23:19 via yahoo.com
  Michigan Representative Sander Levin urged the White House to secure bipartisan support for the pact rather than bank on a lame-duck Republican House to approve it.Levin predicted that Democrats will take control of the House in 2019 following midterm elections.
  
  Read more

• Brett Kavanaugh confirmation – LIVE: Mitch McConnell hits out at Democrats saying they are ‘untrustworthy’ and wanted ‘media circus’ around Christine Ford

  01-10-2018 23:17 via yahoo.com
  Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court has been delayed as the FBI carry out a "limited" additional background check after Republicans were blind-sided by one of their senators who said his vote for the nominee was dependent on such a probe.Donald Trump later said it "wouldn't bother me at all" if the scope of the investigation was 'expanded' to include interviews of all three of his nominee's accusers and Mr Kavanaugh himself.Last week's explosive testimony before the Senate Judiciar
  
  Read more

• Discoveries that revolutionized cancer care win Nobel Prize

  01-10-2018 23:14 via yahoo.com
  Two researchers from the U.S. and Japan won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for discoveries that have revolutionized cancer care, turning the body's immune system loose to fight tumors in an approach credited with saving an untold number of lives.
  
  Read more

• One year after Las Vegas massacre, gunman's motive a mystery

  01-10-2018 23:12 via yahoo.com
  One year after a heavily armed gunman embarked on the deadliest mass shooting in US history, raining automatic weapons fire from a hotel window down onto a country music concert, Las Vegas is no closer to knowing why.Mynda Smith, whose sister Neysa Tonks was killed at the concert, spoke at the event.In Washington, President Donald Trump marked the anniversary.
  
  Read more

• Bernie Sanders Suggests Amazon Wage Increases Are Response To Outside Pressure

  01-10-2018 22:56 via yahoo.com
  UPDATE: Oct. 2 ― Amazon announced Tuesday that it would raise pay for all its
  
  Read more

• Confirming Brett Kavanaugh Now Would Destroy The Supreme Court As We Know It

  01-10-2018 22:47 via yahoo.com
  The Senate should not confirm Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to serve as an
  
  Read more

• Trump's NAFTA Replacement Largely Maintains the Status Quo on Free Trade

  01-10-2018 22:42 via yahoo.com
  Despite a slew of changes of varying significance, more is staying the same than changing, and that's a huge relief to a slew of industries
  
  Read more

• The Briefing Room: FBI probes Kavanaugh, Trump awards Medal of Honor

  01-10-2018 22:33 via yahoo.com
  Questions emerge over what is included in the FBI's investigation into the Kavanaugh allegations, and Trump awards the Medal of Honor to an Army medic.
  
  Read more

• GOP Moderates Flex Muscle As White House Broadens Scope Of Kavanaugh Probe

  01-10-2018 22:29 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON ― The White House on Monday authorized the FBI to interview any
  
  Read more

• Even in new trade deal, US plays hardball with China

  01-10-2018 22:26 via yahoo.com
  Even as he announced a new trade deal with Canada and Mexico on Monday, US President Donald Trump again went after China, making it clear a truce with Beijing was unlikely to come soon.With US tariffs now on $250 billion in Chinese annual exports, about half the total that comes into the US market, and Trump threatening to target the other half, relations with Beijing have deteriorated.
  
  Read more

• New Cancer Treatments Just Won Two Scientists a Nobel Prize. Here’s How They Work

  01-10-2018 22:22 via yahoo.com
  Two researchers were awarded the Nobel for their discoveries
  
  Read more

• New Cancer Treatments Just Won 2 Scientists a Nobel Prize. Here’s How They Work

  01-10-2018 22:22 via yahoo.com
  Two researchers were awarded the Nobel for their discoveries
  
  Read more

• Trump insults female reporter in tense press conference exchange: ‘I know you’re not thinking. You never do’

  01-10-2018 22:21 via yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump has insulted a female member of the White House press corps, suggesting that the reporter was in “shock” by the very fact that she was called on to ask him a question, and that she does not think.The comment came during a Monday morning press conference, where the president also ranted more generally about the media — a group of people he has consistently cast in an adversarial light.The reporter, ABC’s White House correspondent Cecilia Vega, then t
  
  Read more

• Boy, 2, Among 3 Killed in Pennsylvania Car Explosion That Police Call a 'Criminal Incident'

  01-10-2018 22:21 via yahoo.com
  The child's father and a family friend were also killed
  
  Read more

• Fate of Kavanaugh confirmation rests with FBI investigation

  01-10-2018 22:17 via yahoo.com
  In a new poll, more voters found Christine Blasey Ford credible than Brett Kavanaugh.
  
  Read more

• Barack Obama Backs Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez In New Round Of Endorsements

  01-10-2018 21:58 via yahoo.com
  Former President Barack Obama is putting his name behind 260 more Democratic
  
  Read more

• Obama backs more than 200 Democrats ahead of midterms

  01-10-2018 21:43 via yahoo.com
  Former President Barack Obama is expanding his influence ahead of November's midterm elections.
  
  Read more

• The 2018 BMW 230i Is a Blast, Even with an Automatic

  01-10-2018 21:40 via yahoo.com
  BMW's least expensive car is also its most driver-focused.
  
  Read more

• Tesla shares jump on Model 3 numbers, Musk deal

  01-10-2018 21:26 via yahoo.com
  Tesla fans cheered the signs of a manufacturing jump while business analysts said the company needed to fulfil the spirit of the settlement by appointing a strong independent chair and new directors.The electric carmaker's shares sank last week after the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission accused Musk of securities fraud and sought to ban him from company leadership, pointing to a long drawn-out fight that could have undermined Tesla's operations and ability to raise capital.Instead, under
  
  Read more

• GE, seeking path forward as a century-old company, ousts CEO

  01-10-2018 21:22 via yahoo.com
  BOSTON (AP) — General Electric ousted its CEO, took a $23 billion charge and said it would fall short of profit forecasts this year, further signs that the century-old industrial conglomerate is struggling to turn around its vastly shrunken business.
  
  Read more

• The Latest: Investigators ID 3 dead in car explosion

  01-10-2018 21:14 via yahoo.com
  ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) — The Latest on a car explosion in Pennsylvania that killed three people (all times local):
  
  Read more

• Even Trump Thinks Brett Kavanaugh Had A Drinking Problem

  01-10-2018 21:10 via yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump said that although Brett Kavanaugh had "difficulty"
  
  Read more

• Trump Jr says he is more concerned for his boys than girls after Kavanaugh sexual assault accusations

  01-10-2018 21:00 via yahoo.com
  Donald Trump Jr has said he is more worried for his sons than his daughters in the wake of testimony last week from Dr Christine Blasey Ford, who accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault.Mr Trump Jr made the comment while on the campaign trail in Montana, where he is supporting a Republican candidate for the US Senate.“I've got boys, and I've got girls,“ Mr Trump Jr told DailyMailTV, referring to the three sons and two daughters he has with his estranged wife V
  
  Read more

• The US-Mexico-Canada trade deal: What's under the hood?

  01-10-2018 20:59 via yahoo.com
  Canada and the United States came in just under the wire late Sunday, announcing a last-minute deal on a revamped trade agreement for North America.The effort rescued a deal that covers Canada, Mexico and the United States -- which have a combined annual economic output approaching $25 trillion.The newly-dubbed United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, updates the North American Free Trade Agreement, which President Donald Trump had long denounced.
  
  Read more

• US Supreme Court opens term with case of endangered frog

  01-10-2018 20:58 via yahoo.com
  The US Supreme Court opened its new term Monday by handling a case involving a small, critically endangered frog.The court has been short of one of its nine justices since the retirement of Anthony Kennedy in late July.President Donald Trump's nominee to replace him, Brett Kavanaugh, seemed a sure bet for approval until allegations of sexual misconduct arose, and he has yet to be confirmed by the Senate.
  
  Read more

• Las Vegas Shooting: How This Couple Found Love in the Chaos of Horrific Massacre

  01-10-2018 20:32 via yahoo.com
  Nicole Ruffino credits country singer Bryan Hopkins with saving her life.
  
  Read more

• Cameroon tense on anglophone 'independence' anniversary

  01-10-2018 20:28 via yahoo.com
  Yaoundé (AFP) - Cameroon's restive anglophone regions were in lockdown on Monday as separatists marked the first anniversary of a symbolic "independence" declaration just a week before a nationwide presidential poll.A 48-hour curfew was imposed on English-speaking towns in the regions which have been rocked by deadly clashes sparked by the majority francophone country's sensitive linguistic divide.Gunfire was reported on Monday in three built-up areas of flashpoint town Buea in the countr
  
  Read more

• Applebee's Customers Reportedly Stiff Waitress: 'We Don't Tip Black People'

  01-10-2018 20:27 via yahoo.com
  Stiffing a waitress on her tip is bad enough, but giving a racist excuse is
  
  Read more

• Nobel-winning therapy weaponises immune system against cancer

  01-10-2018 20:26 via yahoo.com
  James Allison of the US and Tasuku Honjo of Japan won the Nobel on Monday for identifying two different brakes on the immune system which, when turned off, allow the body's defence system to attack cancerous cells faster and more effectively.Allison was one of two scientists to discover the blocking effect for one such brake -- or checkpoint inhibitor molecule -- called CTLA-4 in 1995.
  
  Read more

• Trump cites the 'trauma' of the FBI investigation on Kavanaugh and his family

  01-10-2018 20:25 via yahoo.com
  During a press conference meant to tout a trade deal, President Trump fielded questions on the FBI probe of Brett Kavanaugh.
  
  Read more

• The Latest: Trump says US helping after devastating tsunami

  01-10-2018 20:14 via yahoo.com
  PALU, Indonesia (AP) — The Latest on a powerful earthquake and tsunami that hit part of central Indonesia (all times local):
  
  Read more

• Brett Kavanaugh confirmation – LIVE: Senate democrats 'send FBI list of 24 people' to interview for investigation into Trump's Supreme Court nominee

  01-10-2018 20:10 via yahoo.com
  Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court has been delayed as the FBI carry out a "limited" additional background check after Republicans were blind-sided by one of their senators who said his vote for the nominee was dependent on such a probe.Last week's explosive testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee of Dr Christine Blasey Ford, who alleges a drunken Mr Kavanaugh sexually abused her at a college party in 1982, was hotly contested by Mr Kavanaugh in his counter-testimony.In th
  
  Read more

• Why What You Focus on Matters at Work

  01-10-2018 19:58 via yahoo.com
  It's about figuring out how to dodge distractions from their workload so that they have enough time and energy left to channel toward their key projects and career mission.Without being very intentional and conscientious about what you attend to at work, it's easy to fragment your focus and derail your professional goals.Distractions exist, there's no way around it -- but once you're aware of what's out there, you can map out a solid game plan that keeps your interest riveted to what's essential
  
  Read more

• The 7 Home Decor Sales We're Excited About This Week

  01-10-2018 19:58 via yahoo.com
  Consider us your personal shoppers
  
  Read more

• Is This the Maryland House Where Christine Blasey Ford Was Allegedly Assaulted?

  01-10-2018 19:55 via yahoo.com
  Kavanaugh's friend, Timmy Gaudette, lived in a Rockville, Maryland, home in the 80s.
  
  Read more

• Quake-hit Indonesia buries dead in mass grave

  01-10-2018 19:53 via yahoo.com
  Indonesian volunteers began burying bodies in a vast mass grave on Monday, victims of a quake-tsunami that devastated swathes of Sulawesi, as the UN warned that some 191,000 people were in urgent need of humanitarian assistance.Indonesia is no stranger to natural calamities and Jakarta had been keen to show it could deal with a catastrophe that has killed at least 844 people, according to the latest official count, and displaced some 59,000 more.In response, President Joko Widodo opened the door
  
  Read more

• Maddox Ritch Case: Witness Says Boy Was Running Toward Park's Office on Day He Vanished

  01-10-2018 19:52 via yahoo.com
  When she heard that a little boy had disappeared, Brooke Sheppard said she knew it was the same child.
  
  Read more

• Trump claims India says it will reduce tariffs on Harley Davidson: 'They called us'

  01-10-2018 19:50 via yahoo.com
  Donald Trump has claimed India has promised to reduce tariffs on Harley Davidson motorcycles and other US products and was keen to start trade talks immediately.Having described the south asian country as a “tariff king”, he told reporters he had spoken to prime minister Narendra Modi who had promised to reduce the levies.“India charges us tremendous tariffs.
  
  Read more

• Donald Trump Calls Media 'Loco' While Discussing U.S.-Mexico Trade Deal

  01-10-2018 19:47 via yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump on Monday called the press "loco" -- Spanish for
  
  Read more

• Trump’s NAFTA Revision Ignores Climate Change, Bolsters Oil And Gas Industries

  01-10-2018 19:44 via yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump's deal to tweak the trade agreement among the United
  
  Read more

• Palestinians, Israeli Arabs strike against Israel's Jewish nation law

  01-10-2018 19:41 via yahoo.com
  Palestinians joined Israeli Arabs in a general strike Monday protesting Israel's controversial Jewish nation-state law and commemorating the deaths of 13 people killed in clashes with police in October 2000.In the Arab Israeli community of Jatt in northern Israel, 1,500 participated in the central march in memory of the October 1 victims, killed in a series of clashes with police in 2000 during protests in support of the second Palestinian intifada.Twelve Israeli Arabs and a Palestinian were kil
  
  Read more

• Groupon to pay IBM $57 million to settle U.S. patent dispute

  01-10-2018 19:41 via yahoo.com
  IBM's lawsuit, filed in U.S. court in Delaware in 2016, alleged Groupon used IBM’s patented e-commerce technology without authorization.A jury sided with IBM in July, ordering Chicago-based Groupon to pay $83 million in damages.William Lafontaine, IBM’s general manager of intellectual property, said in a statement the deal demonstrates the value of the intellectual property the Armonk, New York-based company derives from its annual investment of more than $5 billion in research and d
  
  Read more

Follow @FinanceUSA_News on Twitter!