JPMorgan Chase & Co is close to vaulting past Bank of America Corp to become the biggest bank in the United States, but it will likely get there in an odd way -- by shrinking less than its rival. Both JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America are getting smaller as they shake off the excesses of the... Read more...
When Hurricane Katrina devastated one of New Orleans’ oldest public housing developments, families were displaced and job opportunities became scarce. Goldman Sachs’ Urban Investment Group joined with an experienced developer, McCormack Baron Salazar, to destroy the neighborhood and displ... Read more...
Three years ago, Heather Vogell, an investigative reporter at the Atlanta Journal Constitution, sat down with a data analyst to crunch some numbers. She had just received the latest crop of scores for the CRCT, a state standardized test. Curiously, Vogell noted, several schools statewide had ch... Read more...
Internet search operator Google is bracing for a fine that could top $500 million, after a federal probe of illegal online pharmacy ads placed on the website over the past three years. Law enforcement sources told CNN that federal prosecutors in Rhode Island, along with undercover agents ... Read more...
Many parents worry, no doubt, about the effect video games have on their children. We list the ten most common problems recently investigated by researchers from 2006-present. An increase in emotional disorder symptoms An increase in and behavioral disorder symptoms Declines in verbal memo... Read more...
A court-appointed monitor will oversee the use of "stop and frisk" searches by city police, a high-profile part of the mayor's efforts to combat violent crime, according to a settlement agreement announced Tuesday. Authorities also will take additional steps to make sure the stops are only ma... Read more...
Pharmacy industry groups warned Google years ago that it should be doing a better job screening ads from online pharmacies that break U.S. laws. But Google didn't respond to their warnings, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal. Earlier this month, an SEC filing revealed that Googl... Read more...
Previous efforts in the 1990s to recover nuclei in cells from the skin and muscle tissue from mammoths found in the Siberian permafrost failed because they had been too badly damaged by the extreme cold. But a technique pioneered in 2008 by Dr. Teruhiko Wakayama, of the Riken Centre... Read more...