Disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes has avoided starting her more than 11-year prison sentence on Thursday by deploying the same legal maneuver that enabled her co-conspirator in a blood-testing hoax to remain free for an additional month. Holmes’ lawyers on Wednesday informed U.S. District Judge Edward Davila that she won’t …
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Finding great deals on airfare isn’t so unusual in the internet age, but some bargains really are too good to be true. Take the travelers who scored sharply discounted tickets for international flights on All Nippon Airways. Because of a currency conversion error, the tickets went on sale for up …
Read More »“Harry Potter” is making a jump from the big screen to the little screen in a straight-to-streaming television series deal, Warner Bros. Discovery announced on Wednesday in a press release. The series will land on Max, a much-hyped streaming service that Warner Bros launched earlier this month. “‘Harry Potter’ is a cultural …
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Honda is recalling nearly 564,000 of its older model CR-V sport utility vehicles because road salt can cause the frame to rust and rear suspension parts to come loose. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said in documents posted Thursday that salt can accumulate and cause corrosion in CR-Vs …
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The Federal Reserve may need to increase the size of its interest rate hikes and raise borrowing costs to higher levels than previously projected if evidence continues to point to a robust economy and persistently high inflation, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Tuesday in prepared testimony to a Senate …
Read More »President Joe Biden said he has a plan to shore up the finances of Medicare, the health insurance plan for America’s seniors: Raise the Medicare tax on people earning more than $400,000 to 5% from its current 3.8%. Mr. Biden, writing in a Tuesday guest essay in The New York Times, …
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Last year, one of my family’s credit cards was used to rack up hundreds of dollars in bogus charges at Apple.com. Another card was compromised four times in a row, as thieves repeatedly charged merchandise and Uber rides. We ultimately got our money back, but repeated credit card fraud can …
Read More »An upscale New Jersey restaurant has adopted a controversial new policy that may strike some as either heartlessly stuffy or just common sense: No kids under 10 allowed in its dining room. Nettie’s House of Spaghetti, in Tinton Falls, New Jersey, recently announced the new rule on Facebook and Instagram, …
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Near the banks of Montana’s Musselshell River, cattle rancher Michael Miller saw a large, white orb above the town of Harlowton last week, a day before U.S. officials revealed they were tracking a suspected Chinese spy balloon over the state. The balloon caused a stir in the 900-person town surrounded …
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Bed Bath & Beyond defaulted on its loans and doesn’t have enough money to repay what it owes, the retailer said Thursday. The home goods chain disclosed the default in a securities filing which said it was considering alternatives — including restructuring its debt in bankruptcy court. The filing isn’t …
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