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(Bloomberg) — Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox Inc. and News Corp. said the U.S. Justice Department won’t prosecute either company after an investigation into voicemail hacking and payments to public officials in the U.K. The companies announced the decision in separate regulatory filings on Monday. “We are grateful that this matter has been concluded and…
article start Several large banks eased mortgage lending standards at the end of 2014 amid softer demand, including for loans that were eligible for purchase by Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac, a Federal Reserve survey found.Still, nearly 85% of banks said underwriting standards remained basically unchanged, while 14% said credit standards eased somewhat from October…
Sometimes in this world, you want to make someone as wildly uncomfortable as humanly possible. That’s why Facebook’s here. It’s a fact many of us have been neglecting in recent months, what with our Twittter and our Instagrams and our Yik Yaks—we’ve been forgetting about the world of mischief potential within the walls of Zuck’s…
Are we really going to do this? Yes, apparently. We are going to have a “debate” about Is It Good To Vaccinate Your Kids, Yes Or Not Yes? (The answer is “yes,” by the way.) Let’s start with the good news, and then we’ll move on to the “Christ, is it cocktail o’clock yet?” bad…
It comes as no surprise that one of our most popular categories of video continues to be weather. Extraordinary weather events can affect us all, and Storyful is all about people. With heavy snowfall in the US and temperatures plunging in Europe, we thought it a perfect time to explore the phenomenon of winter viral…
HOW TO LOSE WEIGHT IN 4 EASY STEPS I’ve spent the past year losing 80 lbs and getting in shape. A lot of people have been asking me how I did it; specifics like what diet I was on, how many times a week I worked out, etc etc. So I thought I’d just answer…
A couple of months ago, I pitched a feature on the music industry that I was totally qualified to write. But the editor questioned my experience: What exactly had I published about the music industry? By my count, over two thousand blogposts since 2009. But the links to my author pages bounced back because the…
In May of last year, I took a trip to Nevada to report a profile of a political candidate. After a three-hour interview with my subject, a member of her communications team suggested we go to lunch. Midway through, I jumped up from the table and ran toward the restaurant’s bathroom. I was unable to…
A few weeks ago, someone reported this to us at Medium: “I just started an article in Polish. I can type in every letter, except Ś. When I press the key for Ś, the letter just doesn’t appear. It only happens on Medium.” This was odd. We don’t really special-case any language in any way,…
Black or White is offensive. Not because of its patronizing view of race relations, not because of the horrible acting—although that is all there in spades. It’s offensively boring. Every minute of this movie felt like an hour. In the back of my head was one of those cartoon clocks going “tick… tick… tick… tick.”…