Breast cancer is one of those feared illnesses by many women. There are numerous commercials about breast cancer awareness, including statistics and warning signs. It’s been talked about for decades and most people will know someone who has it or has suffered from it. There are some who no longer...
Cheers to life — seriously. When it comes to making it into your 90s, booze actually beats exercise, according to a long-term study. The research, led by University of California neurologist Claudia Kawas, tracked 1,700 nonagenarians enrolled in the 90+ Study that began in 2003 to explore impacts of daily habits...
KFC took out full-page newspaper ads on Friday to apologize for its restaurant closures. KFC has issued a high-profile, humorous apology for its chicken shortages in the UK. The fast-food chain used a full-page ad in British newspapers to apologize for shutting down hundreds of restaurants this week because it ran...
Citigroup said it would issue refunds averaging $190 to customers who were overcharged. Citigroup is preparing to issue $330 million in refunds after the bank discovered it had overcharged nearly two million credit card accounts on their annual interest rates, a spokeswoman said on Friday. The bank, which has about 150...
Update, Saturday: SpaceX has delayed Sunday's launch due to a requirement for further testing on the rocket's fairing, or nose cone. A new launch date will be announced soon. Original story: Less than three days after launching a Spanish radar imaging satellite from California, SpaceX early Sunday aims to launch a Spanish...
SpaceX successfully launched its Falcon 9 rocket Thursday morning. But the hard part came next: trying to catch the rocket's falling nose cone with a big net on a ship in the ocean. Wait, what? Part of the SpaceX ethos is "rocket reusability." By reusing as much of the rocket as possible,...
E-cigarette vapors contain toxic metals, including lead, that leak from the heating coils, according to a new study. Scientists at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health examined e-cigarette battery-powered devices owned by 56 users, publishing their findings Wednesday in Environmental Health Perspectives. The aerosols contained potentially unsafe levels of lead,...
The roaring American economy will probably sink into a recession before President Trump stands for re-election in 2020. At least that's the view of Ray Dalio, the billionaire investor who predicted the 2008 financial crisis. "The probability of a recession prior to the next presidential election would be relatively high, 70%...
Japanese automaker Toyota dominated the competition in Consumer Reports' 2018 ranking of the best vehicles in the U.S. Although Toyota has lost its throne as the world's largest automaker by sales volume — falling behind Volkswagen and the alliance of Nissan-Renault-Mitsubishi — the Consumer Reports verdict served as a reminder...
The sharp drop in January home sales was not due to a shortage of homes for sale. It was due to a shortage of affordable homes for sale. While real estate economists continue to blame the pitiful 3.4-month supply of total listings (a six-month supply is considered a balanced market),...
error: Content is protected !!