MEXICO CITY — Mexican American singer Jenni Rivera, the "diva de la banda" whose commanding voice burst through the limits of...
NYC Blacked Out and Abandoned: Sandy's Wake Creates Historic Photo Opp
Label: TechnologyIt was the “zombie-like” traffic lights that first alerted photographer Colin Gray that something was seriously wrong in Manhattan. Instead of the bright red, orange and greens, the lights sat dormant.Armed with just an iPhone and a point-and-shoot, Gray and a group of buddies had crossed the Williamsburg Bridge on foot to get a first-hand look at the damage. Hurricane Sandy had passed through the...
Gabrielle Aplin tops UK charts with Power of Love
Label: LifestyleLONDON (Reuters) – English singer Gabrielle Aplin scored her first British number one on Sunday with a cover of the Frankie Goes To Hollywood hit “The Power of Love”, the Official Charts Company said.Aplin climbed to number one from sixth place with the song, which first entered the charts in 1984 and is the theme for a Christmas television advert for British retailer John Lewis.In the album charts,...
A Breakthrough Against Leukemia Using Altered T-Cells
Label: HealthPHILIPSBURG, Pa. — Emma Whitehead has been bounding around the house lately, practicing somersaults and rugby-style tumbles that make her parents wince. It is hard to believe, but last spring Emma, then 6, was near death from leukemia. She had relapsed twice after chemotherapy, and doctors had run out of options. Desperate to save her, her parents sought an experimental treatment at...
DealBook: A.I.G. to Sell Most of Leasing Unit to Chinese Investors
Label: BusinessThe American International Group agreed on Sunday to sell up to 90 percent of its extensive airplane leasing unit to a group of Chinese investors in a deal that valued the business at about $5.28 billion. It is part of the insurance giant’s effort to sell assets that it considers nonessential to its core operations as the company continues to recover from the financial crisis.Under the terms of the...
New Crowdfunding Site Seeks to Protect Backers of Industrial Design
Label: Technology Entrepreneur Jamie Siminoff wants to build more credibility into crowdfunding — so he’s launching a new platform that takes responsibility for ensuring the viability of new projects.The crowdfunding process, pioneered by sites like Kickstarter, has had its share of huge successes, as well as failures. The problem, says Siminoff, is that when a venture fails, the funders are left holding the...
Rolling Stones rock Brooklyn at anniversary gig
Label: LifestyleNEW YORK (AP) — It sure didn’t feel like a farewell.The Rolling Stones — average age 68-plus, if you’re counting — were in rollicking form as they rocked the Barclays Center in Brooklyn for 2½ hours Saturday night, their first U.S. show on a mini-tour marking a mind-boggling 50 years as a rock band.And although every time the Stones tour, the inevitable questions arise, — whether it’s “The Last Time,”...
New Taxes to Take Effect to Fund Health Care Law
Label: HealthWASHINGTON — For more than a year, politicians have been fighting over whether to raise taxes on high-income people. They rarely mention that affluent Americans will soon be hit with new taxes adopted as part of the 2010 health care law. The new levies, which take effect in January, include an increase in the payroll tax on wages and a tax on investment income, including interest, dividends...
Arithmetic on Taxes Shows Top Rate Is Just a Starting Point
Label: BusinessWASHINGTON — Despite hints in recent days that President Obama and House Speaker John A. Boehner might compromise on the tax rate to be paid by top earners, a host of other knotty tax questions could still derail a deal to avert a fiscal crisis in January. The math shows why. Even if Republicans were to agree to Mr. Obama’s core demand — that the top marginal income rates return to the Clinton-era...
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