A federal judge on Sunday placed a hold on a Trump campaign lawsuit that seeks to prevent Pennsylvania from collecting mail-in ballots at drop boxes.The Trump campaign had claimed the drop boxes would enable voter fraud, but failed to present any evidence to support its argument.US District Judge J. Nicholas Ranjan said he would "apply…
Technology companies are big on changing the world. And they do. Computers have revolutionized access to information and how we communicate. Software has simplified once tedious tasks. Few industries are untouched by the magic of digitization.But make no mistake: When top executives at the world-changing companies shout too loudly about all the good they’re doing…
The U.S. Justice Department has suggested to AT&T Inc. officials that they figure out how to get the benefits they’re seeking from their proposed merger with Time Warner Inc. without being able to own CNN, TBS and other Turner channels, according to people familiar with the discussions.Antitrust officials have suggested that AT&T explore alternatives such…
A jittery overnight session for U.S. stock futures again turned volatile just before dawn in New York, as investors braced for an announcement from President Donald Trump that could levy tariffs on more than 100 types of Chinese goods.Futures on the S&P 500 Index fell as much as 0.8 percent to a session low after…
In September, an obscure Twitter account promoting a fringe belief about an anti-Trump cabal within the government tweeted out a hashtag: #FakeWhistleblower. It was typical for the anonymous account, which traffics in far-right content and a conspiracy theory known as QAnon, some of whose adherents think that satanic pedophiles control the “deep state.” The Federal…
News AnalysisImageAn imam performed religious rites on Sunday for one of the 63 people killed at a wedding in Kabul, Afghanistan, by an Islamic State suicide bomber.CreditCreditJim Huylebroek for The New York TimesKABUL, Afghanistan — Even as the United States and the Taliban seem close to a deal on an American troop withdrawal, the Islamic…
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After seeming to ease trade tensions with China over the weekend at the G20 summit, the US once again drew the country's ire Wednesday when news emerged of the arrest of Meng Wanzhou, the CFO of the Chinese tech giant Huawei. Meng, the daughter of Huawei's founder, Ren Zhengfei, was arrested in Canada on Saturday…
Here’s your week in review, in haiku. 1. Charlottesville trembles; unite-the-white, say pundits. Kanye eats (Jim) crow. 2. Guessing the Gates’s might skip the “update” note this holiday season 3. With elan, Musk moves markets, not board members. Four- twenty unfriendly? 4. The hate in our mouths grows bigger online, while…
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