The settlement, one of the largest ever in the United States according to the Justice Department, covers the gross revenue received by Google as a result of Canadian pharmacies advertising through Google’s AdWords program, and the gross revenue made by those pharmacies from their sales to U.S. consumers. “The Department of Justice will continue to [...]
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer says she meant no disrespect when she pointed a finger at President Obama during an intense discussion on an airport tarmac. But the Republican governor says the Democratic president showed disrespect for her by abruptly ending their conversation. Obama, for his part, responded in an interview with ABC News that the [...]
Carlos Henriquez stood front and center with his bass throughout “The Music of Cachao,” Jazz at Lincoln Center’s tribute to the pioneering Cuban bassist and composer Israel Cachao López on Friday night at the Rose Theater. This was, as Mr. Henriquez noted with a chuckle in the concert’s second half, a departure from his usual [...]
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. – Happy Valley was perfect for Joe Paterno, a place where “JoePa” knew best, where he not only won more football games than any other major college coach, but won them the right way: with integrity and sportsmanship. A place where character came first, championships second. Behind it all, however, was an [...]
The Cuban government has denied that a man who died in custody on Thursday was a political prisoner who had been on hunger strike. State-controlled media said Wilman Villar had been in jail for beating his wife, and died of pneumonia despite intense medical efforts to save him. Activists insist he was a dissident and [...]
If you hadn’t heard of SOPA before, you probably have by now: Some of the internet’s most influential sites—Reddit and Wikipedia among them—are going dark to protest the much-maligned anti-piracy bill. But other than being a very bad thing, what is SOPA? And what will it mean for you if it passes? SOPA is an [...]
Medical researchers in Britain have successfully treated six patients suffering from the blood-clotting disease known as hemophilia B by injecting them with the correct form of a defective gene, a landmark achievement in the troubled field of gene therapy. Hemophilia B, which was carried by Queen Victoria and affected most of the royal houses of [...]
Sirius-XM’s Cristina Radio and En Vivo to Include National Coverage of 2012 Election National Latino Broadcasting LLC (NLB) announced today the roll-out of cutting-edge programming examining current political issues on Cristina Radio and En Vivo, its channels on SiriusXM targeting US Hispanics. NLB has made a commitment to provide extensive and insightful coverage of the [...]
Visitors and residents in Westminster and Kensington and Chelsea will be able to access free WiFi on their smartphones, laptops and tablet devices this summer during the Olympics thanks to mobile network operator O2. A statement released from O2 mentioned that they will be installing Metro wireless network units to street furniture’s from this month. [...]
Twenty-six Cubans came ashore near Newfound Harbor in the Florida Keys in what authorities described as a possible migrant-smuggling operation. The refugees, who arrived Friday, were taken into custody by the U.S. Border Patrol during an operation that also involved the Coast Guard, according to federal officials who asked not to be identified because they [...]
Venezuela President Hugo Chavez, who suffered from cancer, has been told by doctors that he has less than a year to live. Chavez, 56, declared himself cancer-free after undergoing surgery in Cuba to remove a tumour and said no ‘malignant cells’ had been found. Medical sources close Chavez have, however, countered his claims and insisted [...]
On the first King holiday since the now-global Occupy movement launched in New York City in September, the reignited debate over inequality drew hundreds of protestors to march in wintry temperatures in Manhattan, stopping at a Bank of America branch to shout, “The banks got bailed out, we got sold out.” At least two protesters [...]
The news yesterday from Cairo, once again, was ominous. This time Iran warned its oil-producing neighbors in the Persian Gulf against boosting production to offset any potential decrease that might occur when and if Iran drops its exports in the event of an embargo. Iran does not want to see oil shipments from Saudi Arabia, [...]
Around the world, propagandists for the Castro brothers in Cuba are heralding the regime’s “new economic reforms.” After plundering the island’s wealth during 52 years of brutal repression and totalitarian rule, the octogenarian dictators of Cuba are again introducing free-enterprise principles. With their palms wide open, of course. Granted ’tis the season of good will, [...]
Three people are confirmed dead after a cruise ship carrying more than 4,000 people ran aground off Italy. There were scenes of panic as the Costa Concordia hit a sandbar on Friday evening near the island of Giglio and listed about 20 degrees. Most people reached land by lifeboats but some swam to shore. At [...]
COMMERCE has long been at the mercy of the elements. The British East India Company was almost strangled at birth when it lost several of its ships in a storm. But the toll is rising. The world has been so preoccupied with the man-made catastrophes of subprime mortgages and sovereign debt that it may not [...]
Carbon dioxide may be public enemy number one in the fight against global warming. But taking aim at methane and soot has a better chance of keeping the planet cooler in the short run, a new study finds. Cutting the amounts of these two pollutants that are poured into the sky would diminish warming by [...]
A federal judge has ruled that a Rhode Island high school must tear down a prayer banner that encouraged students to be kind and helpful because it offended non-Christians and was a violation of the U.S. Constitution. FOLLOW TODD ON FACEBOOK U.S. District Court Judge Ronald Lagueux ruled that the prayer banner at Cranston High [...]
If you live or work in an area with marginal cell service and want to use your Android smartphone to make and receive voice calls, you can. The key is to piggyback on an Internet connection at your location using the Internet bandwidth there to carry your voice traffic. This method of calling works using [...]
IT SEEMS a strange sort of new year’s resolution. Twice in a row the Hungarian government has begun the year courting controversy with what critics see as dangerous deviations from democratic norms. In 2011 it was forced to begin its six-month presidency of the European Union defending a media law that officials in Brussels thought [...]