Posts Tagged ‘cook’

Apple’s Cook faces Senate questions on taxes

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate dragged Apple Inc., the world's most valuable company, into the debate over the U.S. tax code Tuesday, grilling CEO Tim Cook over allegations that its Irish subsidiaries help the company avoid billions in U.S. taxes. Tweet This Post

Apple’s Cook to face Senate questions on taxes

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Senate panel says Apple Inc. is avoiding paying billions of dollars in U.S. taxes, but the world's most valuable company says it is complying with the laws and pays "an extraordinary amount" in taxes to the U.S. government. Tweet This Post

Weeping Tim Cook Spotted Screaming For Help At Steve Jobs’ Tombstone

PALO ALTO, CA—Eighteen months after the death of his mentor, Apple CEO Tim Cook was seen Wednesday pounding the tombstone of company founder Steve Jobs and begging for guidance in his leadership of what was once the largest corporation in the histor… The Onion Tweet This Post

Too Soon to Identify Midterm Election Themes: Charlie Cook – Brought to you by CIT

Winston Churchill once commanded that a server, “Take away this pudding, it has no theme.” While next year’s midterm elections will certainly have a theme, we don’t yet know what it will be. Politics News Headlines – Yahoo! News Tweet This Post

Jeff Sessions shows how to cook Obamacare books

Sen. Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III had a task for the GAO: take out all the reform in Obamacare, and tell me what happens to the deficit. Via Steve Benen, he got the answer he wanted: the deficit increases. Here he is touting this new study. Tweet This Post

Chicago’s Cook County OKs gun tax to defray costs of violence

CHICAGO (Reuters) – The county that includes Chicago approved a tax on firearms on Friday to help pay healthcare costs from gun violence, making it what is believed to be the first major U.S. metropolitan area to enact such a levy as a form of gun control. The Cook County Board of Commissioners voted 9-7 [...]

Chicago’s Cook County wants tax on bullets to pay for healthcare

CHICAGO (Reuters) – The top executive of the county that includes Chicago took aim at gun owners on Thursday, proposing a tax on bullets and firearms to help defray healthcare expenses associated with the high rate of gun violence. If approved by the Cook county commission, the nation’s third most populous county could be the [...]

COLUMBIA, SC—Restaurant cook Nathan Damien was relieved after he got all his meals for the week prepared by Monday afternoon.

COLUMBIA, SC—Restaurant cook Nathan Damien was relieved after he got all his meals for the week prepared by Monday afternoon. Tweet This Post

American Voices: Bin Laden’s Cook Released From Gitmo

After 10 years as a prisoner at Guantánamo Bay, 52-year-old Ibrahim al-Qosi, who served as a cook at an al-Qaeda compound in Afghanistan, was released and allowed to return to Sudan. Tweet This Post