Martin Shkreli, who the New York Times once called the “bad boy of pharmaceuticals,” was arrested Thursday, Dec. 17 for fraud. Shkreli, the 32-year-old founder of the secretive Turing Pharmaceuticals, became a household name and national pariah in 2015. Earlier this year, he acquired an old drug used to treat HIV patients and sick infants […]
The engineer who fell asleep at the controls of a Metro North Rail Road train in 2013, causing a crash that killed four people and injured dozens more, appeared in his first public interview, where he apologized for the incident. In his interview, William Rockefeller reports reliving the incident every day, and says that he […]
Running on the streets of New York can be risky, but the first indoor running studio in the city’s history is helping thousands of people to get their daily dose of aerobics in a safe place. According to local news affiliate Fox 5, Mile High Run Club, a group treadmill studio on East 4th St., […]
As 2016 closes in, digital marketers are beginning to examine the writing on the wall with closer scrutiny to discern what new trends will dominate next year, but are their clairvoyant efforts made for nothing? Forbes’s Jayson DeMers predicts seven trends will create landmark shifts in the field: video content will overtake written content; mobile […]
While the the online shopping giant Amazon has already cornered the eCommerce market, they are still working to take online shopping to an entirely new level. According to AZ Big Media, Amazon recently launched a new service in Phoenix, AZ, that allows customers to receive their packages within a few hours, rather than their previous […]
New York City has begun yet another consumer health advocacy program, much to the chagrin of many locals. This time, they’re targeting sodium-rich foods offered at popular restaurants, by marking each item with an ominous saltshaker symbol. According to Business Insider, the new policy was recently approved by the NYC Board of Health and took […]
Are you feeling “The Force” lately? Maybe it’s just brain freeze. In celebration of the upcoming December release of “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” Ample Hills Creamery partnered with Disney to launch two flavors of limited edition “Star Wars” ice cream: the Dark Side and the Light Side. Each of the flavors designed by Ample […]
As President Obama heads into the final year of his presidency, the Affordable Care Act, more popularly known as Obamacare, is on life support. At least, that’s what many of Obamacare’s critics want the public to believe. But conservative politicians aren’t the only ones pushing back against Obamacare. On Tuesday, December 2, New York City […]
The clamor and consumerism of Black Friday has come and gone, wiping out many stores of their highly reduced retail items. Yet for many winter apparel retailers, this has not been the case. As this Thanksgiving was one of the warmest holidays in recent records, the demand for winter gear is at a shocking low. […]
Over the past decade, many industries have attempted to find a concrete method of cutting down on carbon emissions, but so far nothing has worked. Research, projects, and investments over recent decades, while they have been promising, end up being too costly and difficult to follow through on. Yet today Ohio Senator Rob Portman and […]