THE DEAL PIPELINE: When money management magazine and website Forbes Media LLC is sold, likely to Fosun International Ltd., the Chinese conglomerate that has taken the front-runner position in the company’s auction, sources said, it will be for a much lower price than private equity minority stakeholder Elevation Partners LP was hoping to receive. Two […]

HUFFINGTON POST: Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) announced her decision to veto legislation on Wednesday that would have allowed businesses to legally refuse service to anyone on “religious freedom” grounds, effectively allowing them to discriminate against same-sex couples. Brewer said the bill had “the potential to create more problems than it purports to solve.”.. Businesses […]

THE TIMES OF ISRAEL: … In a letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon, the head of the European Jewish Association, Rabbi Menahem Margolin, urgently requested that Israel “send trained security guards to protect Jewish communities in Ukrainian cities and towns.” Ukrainian Jewish communities throughout the country are seriously concerned and […]

HUFFINGTON POST / AP: President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday ordered massive exercises involving most of its military units in western Russia amid tensions in Ukraine. Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said in a televised statement made at a meeting of top military brass in Moscow that the exercise is intended to “checks the troops’ readiness for […]

PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE: After weeks of unchallenged command of the state’s television markets, businessman Tom Wolf has sprinted into the lead in the Democratic primary for governor, according to a Harper Polling survey.

HUFFINGTON POST / REUTERS: Ukraine’s parliament voted on Tuesday to send fugitive President Viktor Yanukovich to the International Criminal Court, while his acting successor expressed concern about “signs of separatism” in Russian-speaking Crimea… The Hague-based court said it would need a request from the government of Ukraine giving it jurisdiction over the deaths… Yanukovich’s fall […]

NEW YORK TIMES: … At times, a Senate report into how Credit Suisse, a bank based in Zurich, helped its American customers hide billions of dollars of assets from the United States Treasury reads more like a John Grisham novel than a white paper… The report is scathing both to the financial institution and to […]

WALL STREET JOURNAL: …. One way of doing that would have the phone companies retain the data, officials said. The NSA would then tell the companies when it needs searches of call records concerning specific phone numbers the agency believes are connected to terrorism. The companies would provide the results to the NSA… A second […]

WASHINGTON TIMES: … It happened Feb. 25, 1964, at the Miami Beach Convention Center. The film clip and sound bite have now become part of the American story — Liston quitting his stool before the eighth round, a young Cassius Clay, as Ali was known then, bouncing around the ring, waving his hands, yelling to […]

NEWSMAX: “I consider income inequality the most dangerous part of what’s going on in the United States,” former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said at the National Association of Business Economists conference Monday, according to The Fiscal Times… Greenspan also calls for immigration reform, where he sees a connection to the income inequality issue. The […]