The White House and the attorneys general of 49 states announced an agreement with the nation's five largest mortgage providers to provide at least $25 billion to address mortgage and foreclosure abuses. It will not only help thousands of working families right now, it will establish new protections for homeowners going forward.
The stock market just had its best first quarter in 14 years and analysts are scrambling to raise their estimates for the year. In the measurements of seemingly every other indicator of US economic health, optimism bubbled up with each new report released in March.
The Nasdaq composite index broke through 3,000 on Wednesday for the first time since the collapse in dot-com stocks more than a decade ago marking the best February on Wall Street in 14 years.
Canada booked its best two-month employment gain in three decades with news Friday that the economy churned out 58,200 new jobs in April -- a report that was far stronger than anyone anticipated.
The Dow closed at an all-time high Tuesday, beating the previous record it set in October 2007, before the financial crisis and Great Recession. The Dow Jones industrial average jumped from the opening bell, climbing as much as 158 points early and closing at 14,253.77.
Optimism has been good for Bert Jacobs, who along with his brother John, co-founded Life is good in 1989. The lifestyle and clothing brand has grown from two brothers sleeping in a van while they sold T-shirts door-to-door on college campuses to a $100 million business built around the idea of spreading optimism.
Federal maritime officials have approved a plan to protect whales in and around San Francisco Bay. Shipping industry representatives joined with whale researchers to establish new cargo lanes that will protect blue whales, the largest marine mammal, in their feeding grounds outside one of the busiest ports in the world.
Michelle Obama joined Disney executives today to announce an unprecedented move in the battle against childhood obesity. The media company will eliminate the advertising of unhealthy food and beverages from all of its Disney channels, the first major media company to introduce standards for food advertising on shows targeting kids and families. Mrs. Obama called it a game changer that would give parents more leverage as they campaign to bring healthier foods into their kids' diets.
Starting today, Microsoft's Technology for Good program are donating Office 365 to nonprofits worldwide regardless of the organization's size. The offer is available in 41 countries today, and will be rolled out to 49 more by July 2014.
People can't get enough of a new fast food joint in central California that is super-sizing healthy alternatives to greasy fare.
Three days after promising to match donations for four humanitarian relief groups, the tech giant helped raise over ten million dollars.
In Libya, the oil is once again flowing. Libya's oil industry is now back up to 90 percent of its pre-war production, earning the income that gives many Libyans confidence that, despite hardship, they do have a shot at a better future
Global advertising giant JWT paired two of its clients, a Brazilian cancer center with Warner Bros., who enlisted their Justice League comic book illustrators to create superhero stories that transform chemotherapy into a "Superformula." They even made covers for intravenous bags with superhero logos.
Bethel, Alaska is a town so remote that it has a total of zero fast food restaurants. No Burger King. No McDonalds. No KFC chicken. That's why residents were thrilled when flyers circulated around town about a new Taco Bell arriving. The joy, however, turned into disappointment. The flyers were a hoax — the result, police say, of a feud between two residents. But all was not lost.
A Sacramento homeowner is now $300,000 richer thanks to workers who unearthed a dozen jars of gold dust while installing heating and air conditioning under the floor. The workers turned over the gold dust to the homeowners, who had no idea it was beneath their feet all these years.Read More
A dreamed-up doughnut that melds together chocolate, caramel and pecans has earned its inventor $10,000. Andrew Shepherd was crowned the winner on Monday after beating out 63,000 entries in a Tim Hortons contest..
Taryn Thompson was astonished and grateful when strangers helped find her lost family heirloom. It was a special ring that her grandmother Louise Thompson left her after she passed away in 2007. As reported by WLEX 18 News, the western Kentucky student was attending a wedding in Lexington when she stopped into the Gratz Park Inn to freshen up. That's when she must have lost the ring… but, no one at the hotel could find it.
Too good to be true? Experts always tell you there is no such deal. Don't believe them. BMW New Zealand yesterday ran an April Fool's ad in the Auckland Herald saying the first person to walk into the dealership and ask for "Tom" could swap their old car for a new Beemer.
Urban warehouses, derelict buildings and high-rises are the last places you'd expect to find the seeds of a green revolution. But from Singapore to Scranton, Pennsylvania, vertical farms are promising a new, environmentally friendly way to feed the rapidly swelling populations of cities worldwide. In March, the world's largest vertical farm is set to open up shop in Scranton.
Whole Foods Market has partnered with Gotham Greens to build the nation's first commercial-scale rooftop greenhouse for growing year-round local produce atop the store in Brooklyn beginning this fall.
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