America’s largest water and wastewater utility dealing with cyberattack
See what's being clicked on FoxBusiness.com. The nation's largest water and wastewater utility announced Monday: suffered a cyber attack This disrupted customers' access to billing and payment platforms. American Water is based and operates from Camden, New Jersey. water and wastewater Serving approximately 1,700 communities in 14 states and 18 U.S. military installations, it is […]
FBI To Pay Millions In One Of Largest Sexual Discrimination Settlements In Bureau’s History
The FBI will pay $22 million to settle a 2019 lawsuit alleging that instructors at the agency's training academy in Quantico, Virginia, discriminated against and harassed female recruits. The settlement goes to 34 women fired by the academy, the Associated Press reported. reported. The lawsuit alleges that instructors harassed female freshmen and that men at […]
Largest Ski Resort Operator In World Announces Mass Layoffs Ahead Of Winter
The world's largest mountain resort operator said Thursday it will eliminate some positions to cut costs even as ski season approaches. Vail Resorts plans to lay off less than 2 percent of its workforce as part of a two-year plan, one company said. news release. The expected job cuts will include “14 percent of internal […]
Consumer confidence falls by largest decline in 3 years
Andy Puzder, a distinguished fellow at the Heritage Foundation and former CEO of CKE Restaurants, compared the economies of the Trump and Harris administrations, arguing that one plan is financially better. Consumer confidence plummeted in September, its biggest drop in more than three years, as Americans grew increasingly concerned about the state of the economy, […]
Oktoberfest, the world’s largest folk festival all things beer begins after ceremonial keg-tapping
Oktoberfest has begun. Mayor Dieter Reiter officially kicked off Oktoberfest at noon Saturday by popping the tap on the first keg of beer, signalling the start of the festival's 189th edition. Thousands of beer lovers celebrated the first clinking of mugs at Munich's fairgrounds during the world's largest folk festival. Munich will open its first […]
Largest US asset managers cut support for climate change proposals
The three biggest U.S. asset managers reportedly scaled back shareholder support for so-called ESG proposals during the last voting period following Republican backlash over their controversial investment policies. BlackRock, State Street and Vanguard, which hold roughly 20% of all companies in the S&P 500, have backed fewer environmental, social and governance resolutions compared to last […]
Caitlin Clark Breaks Yet Another Record in Front of the Largest Crowd in WNBA History
Caitlin Clark wasn't able to pull off a win in her final game of her rookie regular season, but despite the loss, she still found a way to make history. Clark and the Indiana Fever lost to the Washington Mystics by one point on Thursday night, but it was a win in front of a […]
Elon Musk Makes His Largest Known Political Donation Ever To Boost House Republicans
Elon Musk increased his political donations in August, making it his largest donation to date, the National Republican Congressional Committee reported in a Federal Election Commission filing on Friday, Politico reported. The Republican National Congressional Committee (NRCC) reported a $289,100 donation from Musk to bolster Republican efforts to retain control of the House of Representatives. […]
FTC sues three largest drug middlemen for allegedly inflating insulin prices
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) filed a lawsuit Friday against the three largest pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), accusing them of engaging in anticompetitive practices that “artificially” inflate the list price of insulin while increasing their profits. The agency's actions target CVS Caremark Rx, Cigna's Express Scripts and UnitedHealth's OptumRx, which together fill about 80% of […]
Child care costs more than rent across 100 largest US metros
(News Nation) — A new study from LendingTree found that sending two children to daycare in the 100 largest metropolitan areas of the U.S. costs about 40% more than rent. of analysis Decided The average monthly cost of full-time child care for an infant and four-year-old is $2,182, 39.4 percent more than the average rent […]