Walmart is pleading guilty to dumping environmentally hazardous materials and breaking environmental laws. The world's largest retailer agreed to pay more than $81 million in fines after stores improperly disposed of hazardous waste into open sewers in California. The company also admits to improperly handling more than two million pounds of pesticides in Missouri.
The deadly tornado in Moore, Oklahoma last week is causing more damage than initially estimated. Citing Risk Management Solutions, the Wall Street Journal says the twister may have caused as much as $3.5 billion in insured losses. Still, that's less than the damage from a string of deadly tornados in 2011.
And Facebook is stepping up efforts to keep hate speech off its pages after Nissan Motor's UK unit halted some Facebook ads on concern they could run next to content that may have encouraged violence against women.
When you get a fast food craving, is it for a caffeinated beverage, a sandwich, a burger, or Mexican food? A new study by Placed Insights says people on the East and West coasts tend to prefer coffee like Dunkin Donuts and Starbucks, but in the Midwest and South, Subway sandwiches are more popular. Burger King's a big hit among customers with children. And Taco Bell was the favorite among those under 44 or with slightly lower incomes.
