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HONOLULU – An Oahu woman who called herself a “Hawaiian Virtual Travel Counselor” has pled guilty to two felony counts for not refunding money to customers when she failed to provide travel services to them and instead illegally withdrew the money from their accounts, according to the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office. Wendy Tenedora Wong – owner of […]
For Daniel Atonna, access to utilities is a personal matter. Atonna, who grew up in New York’s Hudson Valley, said his family couldn’t always afford to heat their home. On some nights, when the heat wasn’t running, he and his sister accompanied their mother to her overnight shifts at a nearby nursing home. The two would […]
The Labor Department ordered Wells Fargo to pay more than $22 million after ruling that the company retaliated against an executive who alleged financial misconduct. According to a Thursday release, the department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration found that Wells Fargo violated whistleblower protection laws for “improperly terminating” an unnamed senior manager. The Chicago area-based manager, who worked in commercial banking at […]
The most perceptive ancient historians and philosophers could not have foreseen a time when a certain type of mass convenience and abundance becomes a threat to democracy, justice and dispersed power. Welcome to the incarcerations of the credit card payment systems Gulag and the corporate state’s drive to stop consumers from paying with cash. So […]
Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp could soon have specialized features available only to users willing to pay for them. Meta is forming a new division called New Monetization Experiences that will be solely focused on paid features for the company’s app, according to a memo The Verge. Wile Facebook and Instagram already have a number of […]
New Orleans Saints created an uproar on Tuesday in response to the team’s decision to trade C.J. Gardner-Johnson to the Philadelphia Eagles in exchange for a couple of future draft picks, having failed to reach an agreement on a long-term extension with one of their star defenders. Intriguingly, NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero reports that the […]
Wee one of the 2022 college football season has arrived, and the Oklahoma Sooners have released their first depth chart ahead of their opener against the UTEP Miners. One of the goals of Brent Venables’ first offseasons with the Oklahoma Sooners was to create competition on the depth chart. Though several spots were solidified heading […]
The Houston Rockets and starting point guard Kevin Porter Jr. continue to share mutual interest in a potential contract extension this offseason, according to Kelly Iko of The Athletic. “Porter is extension-eligible this offseason, and both sides want to get a deal done before the new campaign kicks off,” Iko writes in a story published […]
A Mitchell-to-Houston trade isn’t implausible, but it’s hard to imagine it happening under anything close to those terms. Even if we concede that KJ Martin isn’t too valuable — after all, he appears to want out of Houston at the moment, and he doesn’t have a clear path to rotation minutes — look at the […]
Meta (FB), Facebook’s parent company, reported revenue of $28.8 billion for the three months ending in June, a 1% drop from the prior-year quarter and its first year-over-year revenue decline since going public in 2012. The company’s profit fell far more sharply. Net income during the quarter declined 36% year-over-year to nearly $6.7 billion, a […]
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