Headline News Archive

2018

July

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• Trump pondera reducir impuestos a ganancias de capitales. El gobierno de Donald Trump está estudiando la posibilidad de implementar una enorme rebaja de impuestos a los estadounidenses acaudalados, reduciendo el gravamen sobre

• Eliminarán proyecto de salario universal en Canadá. El nuevo gobierno conservador de la provincia de Ontario, en Canadá, anunció el martes que pondrá fin a un experimento con el

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• Trump administration plans to scrap rule to limit for-profit colleges abuses. The Trump administration intends to scrap limits on the debt students amass in career training programs, undoing an Obama-era initiative that sought to tighten

• Meet the rebate, the new villian of high drug prices. An increasingly popular culprit in the debate over high drug prices is the pharmaceutical rebate, the after-the-fact discounts that form the heart of the nation

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• When the caller says your child has been kidnapped. The FBI says hundreds of Southern Californians have received calls this year from scammers claiming to be kidnappers. For one man, that call resulted in 20

• Sec. DeVos’ sides with for-profit colleges over debt-saddled students. The Department of Education wants to make it harder for screwed-over students to get their money back.

• Disneyland sube 40% salario a empleados en California. Disneyland acordó subir a 15 dólares la hora el sueldo mínimo para los empleados de su parque temático en

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• Victim in Queens cheated out of her life savings through online dating scam (Chinese). (本報記者)皇后區一名30歲女子誤墮網上交友騙局，聲稱被情場騙子騙去了所有儲蓄。

• DeVos proposes to curtail debt relief for defrauded students. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos proposed to curtail Obama administration loan forgiveness rules for students defrauded by for-profit colleges, requiring that student borrowers show they have

• Amazon’s facial recognition wrongly identifies 28 lawmakers, A.C.L.U. says. Representative John Lewis of Georgia and Representative Bobby L. Rush of Illinois are both Democrats, members of the Congressional Black Caucus and civil rights leaders.

• Waymo partners with Walmart to shuttle customers in self-driving cars. Customers in Phoenix who order groceries on Walmart.com, will receive savings on their goods, and as their orders are put together at the store,

• FICO, VantageScore stand against FHFA’s delay of new credit score model. The Federal Housing Finance Agency announced Monday it is postponing its search for alternative credit scoring models, but both FICO and VantageScore expressed their disappointment

• Conductores de Uber en Miami dependen del servicio para más de la mitad de sus ingresos. La próxima vez que tome un Uber en Miami, tal vez piense en lo siguiente: la mayor parte del sustento que gana el

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• Qualcomm may abandon acquisition of NXP - stock rose 6% after announcement (Chinese). 晶片製造商高通周三盤後公布財報，優於市場預期。高通並表示，若中國監管機關遲不批准其收購恩智浦的交易，將放棄這項收購案。

• Asian elderly cheated of $100,000 from phone scam (Chinese). 市警62分局24日在布碌崙班森賀舉辦「建立鄰里安全會議」(Build the Block Neighborhood Safety Meeting)，兩名「社區協調警員」(NCO)與社區民眾面對面討論治安問題。華裔社區人士在會中表示，近來常有耆老投訴電話詐騙，更有耆老因此損失10萬元，希望警方辦講座為民眾答疑。

• Closing costs can add considerably to the price of buying a house. In the emotional rush that precedes buying a home—negotiating contract details and price, beating away rival bidders, searching for the best mortgage deal

• How to buy a sofa online. The promise of online shopping—that virtually anything you want can be sent to you within a day or two—is not true

• U.S. breaks up vast I.R.S phone scam. With stiff sentences for 21 conspirators last week in the United States and a round of indictments in India, the Justice Department says it has broken

• The big business of being Gwyneth Paltrow. Goop’s first newsletter left Gwyneth Paltrow's kitchen in 2008, right when the economy was collapsing around us. It wasn’t just the

• Ajustes de presupuestos. La escasa subida salarial anulada por la inflación puede obligar a hacer nuevas cuentas domésticas Hemos cruzado la línea

• Taxistas de Barcelona en huelga contra Uber. Taxistas de todas partes de España se congregaron el miércoles en Barcelona para sumarse a una huelga de 48 horas en protesta

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• IRS debt collection of poor people's tax debts criticized. Private tax collectors acting on the Internal Revenue Service’s behalf have collected tax payments from more than 5,000 poor people in the past year,

• A two-year degree cost him $90k. Now he’s battling the Dept. of Ed.. Advocates say the Trump administration is refusing to implement a regulation that would have offered students who say they were defrauded recourse.

• The SIM hijackers. Meet the hackers who flip seized Instagram handles and cryptocurrency in a shady, buzzing underground market for stolen accounts and usernames. Their victims' weakness? Phone

• Con el agua al cuello: los seguros de inundación van a subir de nuevo... y eso es solo el comienzo. La carta tal vez ya le llegó por correo. “Su vivienda tiene un alto riesgo de inundación”, dice con letra