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Shaquille O’Neal sits on the bench before the game between the Indiana Pacers and the New York Knicks during Game 2 of the 2025 Eastern Conference Finals at Madison Square Garden in New York City, New York, on May 23, 2025. Jesse D. Garrabrant | National Basketball Association | Getty Images Shaquille O’Neal has agreed […]
A majority of Warner Bros Discovery shareholders voted against the 2024 pay packages of CEO David Zaslav and other top executives at the media conglomerate’s annual stockholder meeting, a Tuesday regulatory filing showed. The board of directors had recommended shareholders to vote in favor of the 2024 executive compensation; however, more than 59% of them rejected the proposal […]
Capital One agreed to pay a $425 million settlement after it faced nationwide litigation accusing it of cheating savings depositors out of higher interest rates by failing to advertise higher-yield accounts, according to a federal court filing. The preliminary settlement, which is pending a judge’s approval, was filed in a notice on Friday in the […]
A Google corporate logo hangs above the entrance to the company’s office at St. John’s Terminal in New York City on March 11, 2025. Gary Hershorn | Corbis News | Getty Images Google agreed to pay nearly $1.4 billion to the state of Texas to settle allegations of violating the data privacy rights of state […]
In 2023, the Winooski River in Vermont spilled its banks, kissing the green truss bridge that spanned it. River water poured onto the marble floors of the State House. Up to nine inches of rain fell within 48 hours, causing hundreds of millions of dollars in damage. A year later, Vermont enacted the Climate Change […]
A few weeks ago, Bill Chisholm told partners at his private equity firm that he was going to buy a basketball team. It wasn’t just any basketball team, mind you – it was the Boston Celtics. The partners at his firm, Symphony Technology Group, were concerned. Where would he get the money? Surely not from […]
Owners of electric cars in Vermont recently got a letter from the Department of Motor Vehicles with some bad news. Starting Jan. 1 they would have to pay $178 a year to register their cars, twice as much as owners of vehicles with internal combustion engines. In imposing the higher fee, Vermont became the latest […]
Certain Walmart managers are getting a pay bump, pushing their total compensation, including stock grants and bonuses, to well over $600,000. The nation’s largest private employer is raising the salary range for its market managers, who supervise store managers in about a dozen locations, from $130,000–$260,000 to $160,000–$260,000. However, Walmart said that the majority of the […]
Vanguard, the large mutual fund company, has agreed to pay $106 million in restitution to settle a securities regulatory investigation into whether the firm misled retail investors about the tax implications of changes in some of its retirement funds. The Securities and Exchange Commission announced the settlement on Friday along with a flurry of other […]
Pedestrians shelter from the rain under umbrellas as they pass the Elizabeth Tower, commonly known by the name of the clock’s bell, Big Ben, at the Palace of Westminster, home to the Houses of Parliament, in London on Feb. 22, 2024. Henry Nicholls | AFP | Getty Images If you’re traveling to the U.K. as […]
