Have you ever used ABCDE or 12345 as a website password? If so, you’re not alone. Too many people use weak or common passwords for their online accounts and often the same password for multiple sites. That approach leaves your passwords wide open to hackers who can quickly figure them out. Password managers are one…
Last year, an anonymous White House official sent shockwaves through Washington when they published an op-ed in The New York Times titled, "I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration." "I work for the president but like-minded colleagues and I have vowed to thwart parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations," this…
print-edition icon Print edition | Middle East and Africa Apr 20th 2019 | TRIPOLI IN A COUNTRY of crusty old warlords, Raya al-Hassan is challenging stereotypes. A decade ago she was appointed Lebanon’s finance minister, the first woman in the Arab world to hold such a post. In January she broke new ground, becoming the…
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. — When Boeing broke ground on its new factory near Charleston in 2009, the plant was trumpeted as a state-of-the-art manufacturing hub, building one of the most advanced aircraft in the world. But in the decade since, the factory, which makes the 787 Dreamliner, has been plagued by shoddy production and weak…
It’s April 20th—better known by cannabis enthusiasts as 4/20—and various food brands are finding new ways to celebrate the national marijuana holiday with hungrier-than-usual customers. Corporations have been cashing in on the holiday for years, with punny tweets and promotions about the munchies. Now they’re riding a tailwind of popularity, with the ongoing green wave…
On the road to one of the biggest tech initial public offerings in years, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi has secured $1 billion from investors for the company's self-driving-car unit, valuing the unit at $7.5 billion, Uber confirmed on Friday. That investment, from SoftBank and Toyota (both of whom own stakes in Uber), spins out a…
THE MOST eagerly anticipated work of American literature has finally been published, albeit with a few parts missing, which only make it seem more tantalising. Robert Mueller’s report has been downloaded almost 100,000 times from government websites. Many more people will have looked at copies emailed by friends or hosted on media websites. The interest…
A scheduling conflict scotched the meeting, but Mr. Trump raised it again a month later, saying that if Mr. Sessions did not meet, Mr. Lewandowski should tell him he was fired. Mr. Lewandowski assured him that the message would be delivered. Hours later, the president criticized the attorney general in an interview with The New…
Special Counsel Robert Mueller is now, officially, a best selling author. The highly-anticipated report on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election currently sits atop the sales charts at Amazon.com—and holds the number two and #11 spots as well. The Mueller report is currently the second, sixth and ninth best selling book at Barnes &…
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said on Thursday afternoon that it's "not worthwhile" for the Democratic party to try to impeach the president following the release of a redacted version of the special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation report. "Based on what we have seen to date, going forward on impeachment is not worthwhile at…
