Attorney General William Barr may not attend his hearing before the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday due to a disagreement with Democrats over the hearing's format, CNN first reported, based on information from a "committee source." Barr is at the center of the Russia investigation and the man behind the release of a redacted version…
ON A SATURDAY evening in Soweto there are few better places than Chaf Pozi. Beers are flowing, meat is grilling and patrons are dancing with a sense of rhythm and abandon that is alien to a journalist from The Economist. It is an exhilarating spectacle. It is also a revealing one, for it hints at…
WASHINGTON — Barack Obama did not think Joseph R. Biden Jr. should run for president — he hardly needed to say it out loud for aides to understand that. The trick that summer of 2015 was finding a way to nudge Mr. Biden to stay out of the race without looking as if he was…
Readers of 2009’s The Accidental Billionaires (and viewers of the film adaptation, The Social Network) might have thought that Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss got short shrift—both in what happened at Facebook and in having a smaller slice of the narrative. Now author Ben Mezrich is back to give the entrepreneurial twins the lead roles in…
One person is dead, three are injured, and a 19-year-old male suspect is in custody after a shooting at a synagogue in Poway, California, on Saturday that authorities said was a "hate crime." Police responded to the Chabad of Poway synagogue on Saturday for reports of a man with a gun. Mayor Steve Vaus of…
AMERICAN VOTERS waited almost two years for the Mueller report. Most of its findings turned out to have already been published over the previous 13 months by investigative reporters and in indictments issued by Robert Mueller’s office. But that makes it no less extraordinary. While the special counsel found no evidence to sustain a conspiracy…
This article was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. GUANTÁNAMO BAY, Cuba — Nobody has a dementia diagnosis yet, but the first hip and knee replacements are on the horizon. So are wheelchair ramps, sleep apnea breathing masks, grab bars on cell walls and, perhaps, dialysis. Hospice care is on the…
Marc Shay, a banking and finance recruiter based near San Diego, started seeing a big change a few months ago. “Companies are definitely more willing than in the past to hire less-than-ideal candidates and train them,” he says. For some jobs, ironclad requirements still stand. Accounting firms, for instance, won’t bring on auditors unless they’re…
Shares of Tesla fell more than 5% in trading on Friday to close at $235.14, their lowest level since January 2017. The stock ended the brutal week down more than 12% after an investor day that focused on autonomy and failed to excite Wall Street analysts was followed by an earnings report that missed expectations…
ONLY IN FRANCE, perhaps, would the response to a social rebellion have been a three-month-long national conversation. At the Elysée Palace on April 25th, Emmanuel Macron at last presented the conclusions to his “great national debate”, which has taken him on a town-hall tour of the country and involved 2m responses from ordinary citizens. “We…
