Hurricane Sandy Hotels and landlords make a quick buck charging $700 a night for a single room in New York. Greedy landlords and hotel owners looking to make a quick buck from the thousands without power or displaced by Hurricane Sandy were exploiting people's desperation by demanding outrageous prices for a shelter. As of yesterday morning Craigslist was full of posts for costly rooms, with one ad promising people the luxury of a single bedroom apartment with electricity for a 'mere' $700 per night. U.S. seeks advertising, sales data on e-cigarette companies. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has ordered a half-dozen e-cigarette companies to turn over sales and advertising data, the federal regulator said on Thursday, in the first sign of a likely probe of their marketing practices.
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Las Vegas shooting victims, MGM reach settlement of up to $800M. Victims of the 2017 Las Vegas shooting have agreed to settle their lawsuits with the hotel where the massacre took place. MGM Resorts International could pay up to $800 million to the victims, who say the hotel failed to protect them when a gunman opened fire from his suite. Where to try bia hoi, Hanoi's 25 cent beer. As soon as the sun sets in Hanoi, Vietnam, there's only one place to be the corner of Ta Hien and Luong Ngoc Quyen streets. Rafael Nadal pulls out of next week's Shanghai Masters with an inflamed left wrist. Nadal's withdrawal could prove decisive in the battle to end the year as world number one, with Novak Djokovic in the semi-finals in Tokyo this week and due to defend his title in Shanghai.