SAC Capital Advisors, a hedge fund giant, will be $1.8 billion lighter in the pocketbook after being assessed the largest financial penalty ever levied for insider trading. Additionally, the company will plead guilty to criminal charges and stop investing money for...
(Derek Dowell – VNN) Hundreds of pieces of art, representing almost $1.4 billion, were found stashed in the apartment of the son of an art dealer who was among the few authorized by Hitler’s propaganda chief, Joseph Gobels, to sell confiscated works. Though...
As the number of cancelled health care insurance plans mounts (130,000 cancellations in Kentucky, 140,000 in Minnesota, and 400,000 in Georgia for starters), the suddenly uninsured are wondering how President Obama’s oft-repeated re-election campaign promise that “If...
Cuban entrepreneurs taking advantage of a legal gray area have been told they must immediately close privately run cinemas and game salons. Though Raul Castro has received some positive press for creating a list of 200 areas of authorized independent enterprises,...
A gunman walked into a Los Angeles International Airport terminal today and opened fire with an assault rifle. One person, a TSA agent, was killed, and two more injured in the incident. After a brief gun battle with responding police officers, the assailant was taken...
