The columnist E. Jean Carroll accused President Donald Trump of sexually assaulting her in a department-store dressing room the mid-1990s. The accusation was published in New York magazine on Friday as an excerpt from her new book, "What Do We Need Men For?" Carroll said she met Trump inside Bergdorf Goodman, a luxury Manhattan department…
IS THE Spitzenkandidat process dead? And if so, who killed it? In 2014 the EU grudgingly accepted a convention by which the “lead candidate” of the largest parliamentary group becomes president of the European Commission, the EU’s executive. At the European Parliament elections last month most of the major party "families" duly presented their nominees.…
Politics|Excluding Black Jurors in Curtis Flowers Case Violated Constitution, Supreme Court RulesImageThe Supreme Court in Washington.CreditCreditHilary Swift for The New York TimesWASHINGTON — A white Mississippi prosecutor violated the Constitution by excluding black jurors from the sixth trial of Curtis Flowers, a black man who was convicted of murdering four people in 1996 in a…
Apple is recalling an undetermined number of 15-inch MacBook Pro laptops after learning of an issue that could cause the battery to overheat and pose safety risks. The company is asking owners of select MacBook Pros made between September 2015 and February 2017 to return them to Apple or take them to an Apple Store…
There were 10 banks listed on Slack's S-1, the registration paperwork for its direct listing — but don't go calling them underwriters. Slack started trading Thursday at $38.50, up from the New York Stock Exchange's own reference price, which it set at $26 a share on Wednesday evening. The stock finished the day close to…
PodcastsEconomist RadioAlso on the daily podcast: giving facial recognition the side eye and crimping gender-stereotype adsPodcastsJun 20th 2019IRAN’S DOWNING of an American drone today is just the latest source of tension between the countries. Where does it end? As facial-recognition technology improves, rising privacy concerns are hampering its adoption. And in Britain, advertisements that play…
ImageA drone test flight over Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland, in 2010.CreditCreditErik Hildebrandt/EPA, via ShutterstockIran shot down a United States surveillance drone early Thursday, both nations said, but they differed on the crucial issue of whether the aircraft had violated Iranian airspace, in the latest escalation in tensions that have raised fears of war…
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden is dismissing calls to apologize for saying that the Senate “got things done” with “civility” even when the body included segregationists with whom he disagreed. His rivals for the 2020 nomination, including the two major black candidates in the race, roundly criticized Biden’s comments. But Biden didn’t back down Wednesday…
Google executives faced a barrage of questions about the company's workplace policies and controversial business projects during its annual shareholder meeting on Wednesday, even as the company's cofounders skipped the event and Google's CEO kept mum during a sometimes testy round of questions. Several employees of Google-parent company Alphabet joined other shareholders and addressed senior…
MARIO DRAGHI was certainly hoping for a reaction when he stood up to speak at the annual conference of the European Central Bank (ECB) in Portugal on June 18th—but perhaps not from the world’s most powerful man. Mr Draghi announced that the ECB stood ready to ease monetary policy if the euro area’s economy did…
