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Lawmakers grill Apple execs over tax strategy
WASHINGTON — Apple Inc. Chief Executive Tim Cook was supposed to face a hostile Capitol Hill crowd but instead he wielded the company's popularity like a shield to deflect some of the most aggressive questioning over the company's...
Tags: Apple Inc., Politics, U.S. Congress, Corning Incorporated, Rand Paul
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Apple CEO Tim Cook strongly defends tax policy at Senate hearing
WASHINGTON — Apple Inc. Chief Executive Tim Cook strongly defended the company's tax practices Tuesday at a Senate hearing highlighting the technology giant's use of Irish subsidiaries to shelter billions of dollars in income from U.S. taxes....
Tags: Apple Inc., Politics, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, U.S. Congress
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Five things at stake for Apple at Senate tax hearing
Apple hardly seems the invincible name it was just one year ago. Faced with slower growth, a badly bruised stock price and questions about its innovation leadership, the company has plenty of fights on its hand. And now it has a new foe attempting to...
Tags: Tim Cook, Politics, John T. Chambers, Companies and Corporations, Economy, Business and Finance
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Apple skirts U.S. taxes, panel finds
WASHINGTON — Apple Inc., one of the most successful and valuable companies on the planet, will be tested Tuesday when Chief Executive Tim Cook testifies about the company's controversial tax practices before a hostile Senate subcommittee. Should...Tags: Apple Inc., Politics, Personal Income, Taxation, U.S. Congress
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Apple tries not to stand out in the tax-avoidance crowd
Apple found itself in the uncomfortable position Monday of being labeled a corporate bad guy, drawing fire from senior senators in both parties for using subsidiaries in Ireland to reduce its tax bill. But if Apple has its way, its bitter rival Google...Tags: Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Politics, Crime, Law and Justice, Google Inc., Computing and Information Technology Industry
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Report: Apple avoided billions in U.S. taxes on foreign income
This post has been corrected. See the note at the bottom for details WASHINGTON -- Apple Inc. has used an elaborate web of offshore subsidiaries to avoid paying billions of dollars in U.S. taxes on $44 billion in foreign income over the past four years,...
Tags: Apple Inc., White House, Politics, Personal Income, U.S. Senate
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Chicago's first archbishop was 'good prelate, good man'
Chicago Tribune reporterWhen the president of All Hallows College in Ireland saw the regal man on the framed canvas, he knew the portrait buried in a Dublin basement should head home to Chicago. The painting of Patrick Feehan, Chicago's first Roman Catholic archbishop,...Tags: Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago, Roman Catholicism, Religion and Belief, Holy Name Cathedral, Francis I
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PASSINGS: Vincent G. Dowling, John La Montaine
Vincent G. Dowling Actor, director gave Tom Hanks early break Actor and director Vincent G. Dowling, 83, who left behind a long career with Ireland's national theater to run a Shakespeare festival in Cleveland where he gave a young Tom Hanks an...
Tags: Obituaries, Awards and Prizes, Richard Nixon, Alzheimer's Disease, Music
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Murray making great strides at Loyola
Declan Murray has learned the best way to become wise beyond your years is listening to people who have a few on you. When Murray decided the time had come for him to stop being an undersized soccer player, he asked the head football coach at Cleveland'...
Tags: College Sports, National Collegiate Athletic Association, High School Sports, Track and Field, Awards and Prizes
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British lawmakers accuse Google of dishonesty over UK tax strategy
Associated PressLONDON (AP) — U.K. lawmakers subjected search giant Google to blistering criticism Thursday, accusing the U.S. Internet company of playing games with Britain's tax rules to avoid paying what it owed. In his second appearance before Parliament in...Tags: Labor Legislation, United Kingdom, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, Career and Workplace
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Sting added to Printer's Row Lit Fest
Having introduced the world to such colorful characters as a prostitute named Roxanne and a stalker who monitors “Every Breath You Take,” Sting will help launch a new Chicago-based storytelling initiative when he appears at the Chicago...
Tags: Awards and Prizes, Authors, Music, Entertainment, Literature
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Carmel Quinn, volunteer
Carmel Quinn, a homemaker and volunteer, died of a heart attack Sunday at University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center. The Timonium resident was 83. Born Mary Katherine Carmel Fay in Belturbet, in County Cavan, Ireland, she moved to Baltimore in...
Tags: Roman Catholicism, Mercy Medical Center (Baltimore, Maryland), Religion and Belief, Timonium, St. Joseph Medical Center
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