California regulators on Friday warned other automakers that they would soon start checking more cars for "defeat devices" that can cheat government emissions tests, similar to those used by Volkswagon to cheat on their emissions test. Discovery of such devices in Volkswagen's "clean diesel" cars, has weakened the...

The Department of Justice(DOJ) has just issued new policies that will prioritize the prosecution of individual employees of companies and not prosecutions of just the companies, as has been the history in recent years. The implications of the new change is already causing a stir. The DOJ has come under significant criticism because of the...

Here is one you should know. According to the Wall Street Journal, a hedge-fund firm affiliated with "The Black Swan" author Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Πgained more than $1 billion in a week based on investments on extreme events in financial markets. Universa Investments LP was up over 20% on Monday, when the Dow Jones...

According to a Polish official said Friday he has seen an image made by ground-penetrating radar that seemed to prove the discovery of an armored Nazi train missing in southwestern Poland since World War II. The German train filled with gold, gems and armaments went missing around the city of Walbrzych while it was fleeing...

A US judge has ordered that Lance Armstrong undergo three more hours of testimony under oath as part of the whistleblower case against him. He was questioned in a deposition for seven hours in July and his lawyers tried to block additional testimony, saying their client has already answered 1,600 questions about doping in...

In case you haven't read some of the background of the worldwide hacker group doing insider trading, the actual facts surrounding the worldwide group that gained access since 2010 to news wire services including Business Wire and MarketWire, gaining access to tens of thousands of early releases on major business deals, reads like a...

Medicare will now pay doctors for offering end-of-life counseling to patients. This policy change will take effect retroactively from January 1, 2015. The counseling absolutely voluntary for patients. Many physicians already engage in such conversations with patients without charging them additional amounts. In addition, some private insurers have...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, along with international partners, including Interpol took action against more than 1,050 websites that sellΠdangerous counterfeit medicine and medical devices, the agency said Thursday. Illegal medical devices were seized worldwide, and warnings were sent to the operators of offending websites, the FDA said in a news release....