And we now know that Mueller had serious concerns about how Barr rolled out the report and the narrative he set around the special counsel’s findings. The Justice Department has released a letter that Mueller wrote to Barr on March 27, days after the report was delivered to the department, expressing serious concerns that Barr’s…
President Donald Trump retweeted more than five dozen messages in an hour Wednesday morning, most seeking to cast doubt on the support of firefighters for Democratic presidential front-runner Joe Biden. Biden, who announced his candidacy last week, has focused on appealing to the Rust Belt workers who helped Trump win in Pennsylvania and the upper…
Apple won't have to do much to impress Wall Street on Tuesday. The tech giant is slated to report its earnings for its fiscal second quarter after the market closes — and, following the company's lead, analysts have exceedingly modest expectations. They're projecting that the company will announce that both its sales and earnings slumped…
THIS WEEK Argentine trade unions opposed to the government of Mauricio Macri will try to bring the country to a halt. On April 30th they plan to shut down flights, the metro in Buenos Aires, banks and schools. Even hospitals will run reduced “Sunday services”. On the following day, a holiday, unions will lead a…
“There’s a reason that we give people work permits while they are waiting for asylum, so that they can support themselves and don’t have to be depending on government assistance during that time,” said Michelle Brané, the director of migrant rights and justice at the Women’s Refugee Commission. Fewer migrants try to cross the border…
This article first appeared in Data Sheet, Fortune’s daily newsletter on the top tech news. To get it delivered daily to your in-box, sign up here. When Disney announced its new Disney+ streaming strategy that will riskily yank content from lucrative distribution deals with others like Netflix, I asked a business-savvy friend if he thought…
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein on Monday submitted his resignation letter to President Donald Trump, the Justice Department confirmed to INSIDER. Rosenstein is set to leave the department on May 11. "I am grateful to you for the opportunity to serve; for the courtesy and humor you often display in our personal conversations; and for…
Get our daily newsletterUpgrade your inbox and get our Daily Dispatch and Editor's Picks. BACK LAST May when he filed the censure motion that brought him into office, Pedro Sánchez brushed off demands for an immediate election. With less than a quarter of the seats in Congress, he governed for ten months through a mix…
“This is part of this massive resistance by the Trump administration,” Norman J. Ornstein, an expert on Congress at the American Enterprise Institute and a fierce critic of the president, said Sunday. “It’s basically a middle finger to Congress and its powers, and we’re going to see what Congress does about it.” At issue in…
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), which owns the New York Stock Exchange, made a splash last August with big plans to get into the Bitcoin business. Those ambitions, however, have been stymied by regulatory delays, leading ICE on Monday to announce a series of measures to jumpstart its efforts. Most notably, ICE has acquired a crypto custodian…
