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Privacy watchdog Irish Data Protection Commission penalized Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:FB) €17 million ($19 million) for failing to prevent a series of data breaches on its Facebook platform in 2018, Bloomberg reports. The breach affected up to 50 million accounts.  "This fine is about record-keeping practices from 2018 that we have since updated,…

Goldman Sachs Group Inc (NYSE:GS) analysts downgraded forecasts for U.S. economic growth for this year, reckoning that spikes in oil and other commodities since Russia's invasion of Ukraine will hurt spending, reported Reuters. The investment bank cut its annualized growth forecast to 2.9% against a previous expectation of 3.1%.  It expects fourth-quarter…

El Pollo LoCo Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:LOCO) reported a fourth-quarter revenue decline of 1.3% year-over-year to $108.96 million, beating the consensus of $108.58 million. Franchise revenue in the quarter increased by 12.6% Y/Y to $15.3 million. System-wide comparable restaurant sales increased 11%.   Adjusted EPS improved to $0.17 from $0.16, beating the consensus of $0.12.…

A new peer-reviewed study compared the effects of LSD and psilocybin, two substances currently standing as top molecules behind the recent psychedelic medicine boom. While both compounds have a rich history of human use, not much research has been dedicated to contrasting the effects they produce in human psychology. The…

In 2015, the movie ​​Concussion, starring Will Smith and Alec Baldwin, told the true story of a doctor and his fight against the National Football League to suppress his research on chronic traumatic encephalopathy CTE), a degenerative brain condition suffered by professional football players, as well as other athletes and as victims of…

The Queen's COVID-19 diagnosis adds another chapter to the long history of deadly diseases breaching the palace walls, including bubonic plague, smallpox and influenza.

In an age of elite scorn, government mandates, a rotten economy—and powerful, decentralized communication tools—common people are pushing back.

And how to make them great again.

Inflation-adjusted revenue per student in public schools is up 68 percent in the Empire State—and 24 percent nationally—over the past two decades. Time for School Choice.

The author of the new book "San Fransicko", says the homelessness crisis is an addiction and mental health crisis enabled by policies that permit open-air drug scenes on public property and prevent police from enforcing laws