In a socially responsible era, company workers get an additional two years covered at Arizona State University.
2015
Posted inBusiness
Stock market rises on hopes interest rates will stay low
A Federal Reserve official signals that the Fed isn’t in a rush to raise rates.
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Posted inBusiness, Nation & World
YouTube Kids app criticized
Consumer and child advocacy groups want the FCC to see if Google is unfairly exposing children to advertising content.
Posted inNation & World
Artists place Snowden sculpture in Brooklyn park
The NSA whistleblower’s appearance is short-lived as authorities remove the sculpture within a day.
Posted inNation & World, Politics
Obama ramps up lobbying for Iran nuclear agreement
Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, a nuclear scientist, makes his case but lawmakers are resisting the plan.
Posted inNation & World
Kenyan warplanes bomb al-Shabab camps in Somalia
The airstrikes are made in response to the extremist group’s massacre of 148 college students.
Posted inNation & World
Nation Dispatches
ZION, Ill. Teen killed by police was shot twice in the back An autopsy has revealed that a teenager killed by a police officer in Illinois over the weekend was shot twice in the back, authorities said Monday. Justus Howell was shot by Zion police on Saturday afternoon. Police say officers responding to a call […]
Posted inBoston Bruins, Sports
Commentary: Bruins forward lines far from set in stone
Boston is running out of time to figure out the right combos.
Posted inNation & World
The Rev. Gardner C. Raylor, a key civil rights preacher, dies at 96
Around 1960, at a time when some black pastors considered Martin Luther King too politically liberal and rejected his approach, Taylor sided with King.
Posted inNation & World
Rolling Stone backlash could hurt victims
Many worry that victims won’t report rapes for fear they will be accused of making it up.