finance

Satellite pay-television service DirecTV will drop One America News Network (OAN) when the right-wing channel’s current carriage deal expires, likely a critical hit to OAN’s viewership and finances. About 90% of the right-wing network’s revenue came from a contract with AT&T’s TV platforms including DirecTV and U-verse, Reuters reported in October 2021, citing sworn 2020 testimony by an OAN accountant. DirecTV is the […]

Starting next year, Princeton University will offer full rides to undergraduates from families earning less than $100,000 a year, the Ivy League school announced this week.  Financial assistance is slated to take effect in the fall of 2023 and expected to include about 1,500 students, according to information released Thursday from the school. In addition to a full […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This page is a guide to USA TODAY’s monthslong investigation of Utah-based Nomi Health, the no-bid contracts it received, and questions that officials raised over its testing accuracy and campaign contributions. In early 2020, nearly no one outside of Silicon Slopes, a well-connected, influential business group in Salt Lake City, had ever heard of Nomi […]

New coronavirus cases increased 8.1% in Connecticut in the week ending Sunday as the state added 4,529 cases. The previous week had 4,188 new cases of the virus that causes COVID-19. Connecticut ranked 35th among the states where coronavirus was spreading the fastest on a per-person basis, a USA TODAY Network analysis of Johns Hopkins […]

Oregon reported far fewer coronavirus cases in the week ending Sunday, adding 4,231 new cases. That’s down 10.3% from the previous week’s tally of 4,719 new cases of the virus that causes COVID-19. Oregon ranked 45th among the states where coronavirus was spreading the fastest on a per-person basis, a USA TODAY Network analysis of […]

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 […]