The Royalty Fee
AdminFranchisees run about 95% of McDonald’s roughly 13,400 U.S. restaurants. They pay rent, monthly royalty fees and other charges, such as annual fees toward the company’s mobile app, in order…
McDonald Franchises will soon
McDonald’s franchisees who add new restaurants will soon have to pay higher royalty fees. The fast-food giant is raising those fees from 4% to 5%, starting Jan. 1. It’s the…
Stepping Away from the Boards
Murdoch is stepping away from the boards after a tumultuous year at Fox’s TV network, soon after the company agreed to pay a $787.5 million settlement in the Dominion Voting…
Rupert Murdoch
Rupert Murdoch is stepping down as chairman of the board of both Fox Corp. and News Corp. , the companies said Thursday. The move will be official in November. Murdoch,…
New Jersey
Property taxes can vary by nearly $8,000 for the same-priced home, depending on where you live in the U.S., a new study reveals. New Jersey’s effective tax rate is 2.23%,…
Death of Young Kurdish
Roughly one year ago, the death of a young Kurdish Iranian woman named Mahsa Amini in police custody lit the fuse that would set off months of protests that rocked…
Trevor Noah
We all know that nightmarish feeling in the pit of our stomachs as we realise we're running late! On Friday, that played out live on air for Trevor Noah. The…
Gretchen Whitmer
A jury in the US state of Michigan has acquitted three men of involvement in a plot to kidnap the state's governor. William Null, Michael Null and Eric Molitor were…
Berlin protesters
Protesters have targeted Berlin's State Opera for refusing to cancel Russian opera singer Anna Netrebko's first performance there since the 2022 war. Chanting "shame", they accused the soprano of failing…
College Affordability
College affordability is an ongoing problem. Tuition and fees have more than doubled in 20 years, reaching $10,940 at four-year, in-state public colleges, on average, in the 2022-23 academic year.…