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Admissions Scandal Devin Sloane, an L.A.-based business executive, got four months behind bars for his part in the college admissions scandal. Sloane paid $250,000 to fraudulently get his son into the University of Southern California as a water polo recruit. NBC News

The Fund Manager Blocking Johnson’s Brexit Sprint Gina Miller wins another bid to impose scrutiny on U.K. divorce from EU Gina Miller in London on Tuesday. Soon after the 2016 Brexit referendum, Ms. Miller began to agitate against the U.K. government’s plan to leave the EU. Photo: henry...

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There has often been a tension between the personalities who give and the causes to which they give. But the 21st century has already seen a flood of bad actors giving philanthropy a bad name. Here are some of the worst. Michelle Celarier Published on September 24, 2019 Photo by...

“If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” - Maya Angelou

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Facebook Tactics Snap has reportedly been telling the Federal Trade Commission about all the ways it felt Facebook was trying to suppress its rise—methods that it compiled in a dossier named "Project Voldemort." The FTC is also talking to other companies about Facebook's alleged...

Google Victory Google has won a hugely significant ruling from the EU's top court: it doesn't have to delist links around the world just because someone in Europe wants to exercise their local "right to be forgotten." The company had argued that global delisting would have set a terrible...

Credit Suisse Launches Probe Into Its Surveillance of Top Executive Inquiry follows reports that the bank put former wealth-management head Iqbal Khan, who is set to join UBS, under surveillance Iqbal Khan, who ran Credit Suisse’s wealth-management arm, left the bank abruptly in July. He was...

“Patience is bitter but its fruit is sweet.” - Aristotle

Where the World’s Wealthiest Families Are Putting Capital – And Where They Aren’t Family offices are planning to increase their exposure to private equity — the second biggest allocation in their portfolios — amid doubts that hedge funds can protect their wealth in a downturn, according to...

The Last Time the Market Acted This Way, Value Stocks Gained 30 Percent Expensive stocks with weak prospects might be outperforming high-quality bargain shares, but value isn’t broken — it’s due for a resurgence, according to QMA. Julie Segal September 23, 2019 Haruyoshi...

The perk of werk: Companies are using ‘accelerated pay’ to entice new employees As US wages continue to stagnate and unemployment remains low, about 12% of companies -- including Walmart and McDonald’s -- are offering a controversial new perk to attract workers: on-demand access to earned wages...

Bitcoin Futures NYSE owner Intercontinental Exchange has launched its bitcoin futures contracts, with the first trade taking place shortly after 8 p.m. yesterday. Whereas CME Group's bitcoin futures contracts, launched in 2017, pay out in cash, ICE's pay out in bitcoin. CNBC

737 Max The Indonesian government's first formal finding on the crash of a Lion Air flight almost a year ago will reportedly place blame on Boeing design flaws and U.S. oversight lapses, as well as pilot errors and maintenance mistakes. Wall Street Journal

“Begin at once to live and count each day as a separate life.” - Seneca

The NFL coach searching for his family:I’m normally suspicious of stories with headlines that claim they’re “jaw-dropping,” but this one totally lives up to the hype. At 44 years old, Kansas City Chiefs running backs coach Deland McCullough went searching for his biological parents. What he...

By Alex Prewitt September 19, 2019 This story appears in the Sept. 23, 2019, issue of Sports Illustrated. On the morning he learned his bank account had been drained, Rashad McCants couldn't afford doughnuts. As a rookie at Timberwolves training camp in the fall of 2005 it was his duty to snag...

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