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By Stephen Ohlemacher |
May 23, 2012
Mitt Romney has swept all the delegates in the Kentucky and Arkansas primaries, putting him within one win of claiming the Republican nomination for president.
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By Anne D'Innocenzio |
May 22, 2012
ISS, whose clients mostly include pension funds, has recommended voters not support Wal-Mart's CEO, based on alleged Mexican bribery claims.
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By Anne D'Innocenzio |
May 14, 2012
The California State Teachers' Retirement System, one of the nation's largest pension plans, filed a lawsuit in Delaware against Wal-Mart, asking that any financial damages as a result of its leaders' actions be returned to the company. It holds more than 5.3 million shares of Wal-Mart, or well under 1...
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May 9, 2012
A military program to provide free health care in poor areas of the South came to one of Alabama's most impoverished regions, where teams have treated more than 12,000 people in less than two weeks.
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By Anne D'Innocenzio |
May 7, 2012
The fund, which holds 5.3 million shares in the company, says Wal-Mart's executives had breached their responsibility in handling an alleged bribery scheme.
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By Anne D'Innocenzio |
April 17, 2012
Mike Duke, the CEO of Wal-Mart Stores Inc., received a pay package in 2011 worth $18.1 million, a 3 percent dip from the year before, according to an Associated Press calculation, mainly because his performance-based cash bonus shrank.
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By Alan Fram |
April 17, 2012
Senate Republicans derailed a Democratic "Buffett rule" bill Monday forcing the nation's top earners to pay at least 30 percent of their income in taxes, using the day before Americans' taxes are due to defy President Barack Obama on one of his signature election-year issues.
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By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar |
April 16, 2012
Tornado, hurricane or flood, nursing homes are woefully unprepared to protect frail residents in a natural disaster, government investigators say.
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By The Associated Press |
April 10, 2012
Teen births fell again in the United States in 2010 with the highest rate once more in Mississippi, according to a new government report.
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By John Sullivan |
April 5, 2012
Two researchers say a stricter fidiciary standard does not in fact increase costs to the point of pricing certain registered reps out of the market.
