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Profitable Giants Like Amazon Pay $0 in Corporate Taxes. Some Voters Are Sick of It.

Akron, about an hour west, is faring better economically. Mayor Daniel Horrigan won’t confirm or deny it, but Amazon is believed to be the company he has recruited to move into Akron’s Rolling Acres Mall, a once-thriving shopping center that closed in 2008, becoming a symbol of both the recession and the retail disruption caused […]

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Polish protest after gallery removes suggestive banana art

Entertainment / En Sound Media

A suggestive banana artwork was removed from display by Poland’s national gallery sparking a social media protest. The 1973 video “Consumer Art” by artist Natalia LL, shows a woman eating the fruit. It had been on display at the National Museum in Warsaw for several years but was taken down last week after the museum’s

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Labour ‘s John McDonnell says UK economy requires ‘revolution’

Business / En Sound Media

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionLabour is planning a “revolution” for the UK economy, John McDonnell has told the BBC. Labour is planning a “revolution” for the UK economy, John McDonnell has told the BBC. The shadow chancellor was speaking to Newsnight for a series of reports to mark 40 years since

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A New Marriott Division Goes Head-to-Head With Airbnb

Travel / En Sound Media

The company’s plan, said Chekitan S. Dev, a professor in the Hotel School of the S.C. Johnson College of Business at Cornell University, “keeps any migration of lodging nights from traditional hotels to home-sharing in the family.” Marriott isn’t the first hotel company to dabble in home sharing. In 2017, Hyatt invested in Oasis Collections,

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Streaming service Spotify hits 100 million paid user mark

Technology / En Sound Media

Music streaming service Spotify said Monday that its paying subscribers have reached 100 million for the first time, up 32% on the year and almost twice the latest figures for Apple Music. The Stockholm-based company called the figure, which was reached during the first three months of 2019, “an important milestone.” The growth was driven,

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The Latest: Slain player’s dad calls crime ‘senseless’

Sports / En Sound Media

The Latest on the killing of a Washburn University player and wounding of a New York Giants draft pick (all times local): 10 a.m. The father of a Washburn University player who was killed in a weekend shooting in which a New York Giants draft pick was wounded says the crime “shattered a lot of

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Boeing shareholders meet as company’s plane faces scrutiny

Finance / En Sound Media

Boeing shareholders are meeting six months to the day since the first of two deadly crashes involving the company’s 737 Max airliner and as new questions arise about the aerospace giant’s handling of the crisis. Southwest Airlines says it wasn’t told that a safety feature on the Max was turned off until after the first

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Revealed: the four BP Portrait Award finalists

Entertainment / En Sound Media

Image copyright Hopkins/Pironti A nude painting of a photographer with her dog and a portrait of a 95-year-old grandmother are on the shortlist for this year’s BP Portrait Award 2019. There are four finalists, selected from more than 2,500 entries from 84 countries. The winner, who will pick up £35,000 in prize money, will be

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What can bees teach economists about how markets work?

Business / En Sound Media

Image copyright Getty Images It’s a little known fact that economists love bees – or at least, the idea of bees. The Royal Economic Society’s logo is a honeybee. The Fable Of The Bees, published in 1732, uses honeybees as a metaphor for the economy – and anticipates modern economic concepts such as the division

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Rabbi describes seeing synagogue attacker

World / En Sound Media

A rabbi who was injured in the deadly shooting at a synagogue near San Diego on Saturday has described the moment he faced the gunman. Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein lost his right index finger in the attack, in which one woman died and two other people were injured. A 19-year-old man named as John Earnest was

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