by Christina Lee | Apr 21, 2010 | Business & Tech, Topics
Get the Flash Player to see this content. See the latest currency’s new features (Christina Lee/MNS) WASHINGTON — A new $100 bill debuted Wednesday. Updates include a 3-D security code in the center of the bill that turns bells into 100s as the bill is...
by Michael Beller | Apr 21, 2010 | Business & Tech
WASHINGTON — Americans looking to satisfy their gambling itch can do so now at the close to 1,700 casinos across the country. A bill in the House of Representatives could bring casino gambling to the approximately 86.8 million American homes with Internet access....
by Max Frumes | Apr 20, 2010 | Business & Tech
WASHINGTON – Two key financial regulatory agencies told lawmakers Tuesday that they are seeking out for destruction any legal or accounting loopholes that would allow financial institutions to use the same method Lehman Brothers did in making its balance sheet look...
by Michael Beller | Apr 19, 2010 | Business & Tech, National Security
WASHINGTON — Pentagon officials said Monday improved, intensified training and more personnel are integral to better oversight and administration of government contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan, which total $80 million in taxpayers’ money in the last five years....
by Beth Lawrence & Ramsen Shamon | Apr 16, 2010 | Business & Tech
WASHINGTON — A Friday tweet by a Twitter user called “mcspill” proclaiming Starbucks breakfast sandwiches “yummy” could hardly have been more mundane, but even it could prove valuable to someone, somewhere down the line. That’s the theory...
by Max Frumes | Apr 15, 2010 | Business & Tech, Politics
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Postal Service could eliminate Saturday delivery without losing any “career jobs” to help solve its financial crisis, Postmaster John Potter told a congressional committee on Thursday. During a House Oversight and Government Reform...