EVEN HIS critics found Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s last moments as president difficult to watch. After two decades in power, the Algerian leader stepped down on April 2nd. Slumped in a wheelchair, dressed in a baggy djellaba robe instead of his usual three-piece suit, he looked like a doddering old man roused from bed in the middle…
WASHINGTON — Some of Robert S. Mueller III’s investigators have told associates that Attorney General William P. Barr failed to adequately portray the findings of their inquiry and that they were more troubling for President Trump than Mr. Barr indicated, according to government officials and others familiar with their simmering frustrations. At stake in the…
Everything about her Hollywood life melted away when Edie Falco, known for her star turns on the hit television series The Sopranos and Nurse Jackie, received a diagnosis for breast cancer. It was 2003, while she was working on The Sopranos. The diagnosis happened in the morning. “I remember I had to be at work…
Facebook has spent recent weeks wrestling with existential questions. Not that investors seem too worried Mark Zuckerberg has published two seismic blogs on his company's future. In the first, he envisioned a dramatic shift to privacy, effectively breaking his product in two to create a "town square" and a "living room" for users. The second,…
ON MARCH 27TH Theresa May, Britain’s prime minister, promised to stand down as leader of the Conservative Party—if Parliament passed her Brexit withdrawal deal. This has been rejected three times by the House of Commons. But MPs have been unable to agree on an alternative to Mrs May’s deal, beyond rejecting the idea of a…
Some of the president’s senior advisers pushed him to join the lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the entire current health care law, a more expansive position than the administration had taken previously, when it argued that protections for people with pre-existing conditions should be struck down. But others raised concerns, including the White House counsel,…
I’m a little stressed out writing this report from the Fortune Brainstorm Health conference Tuesday afternoon in San Diego. That’s because I just heard a great talk from psychologist and author Lisa Damour. She talked about why stress and its sibling, anxiety, are normal, healthy, and even useful parts of daily life. I’m on the…
Bitcoin soared more than 23% Tuesday morning to above $5,000, its best level since November. Its stay above the $5,000 mark was brief, however, and the cryptocurrency was trading up about 15% near $4,876 at 6:58 a.m. ET. The buying ran the cryptocurrency to a market cap of $85.45 billion, making it more than four…
OVER THE past few years, president Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his government have throttled dissent, taken control of the judiciary and defanged the press, confining what remains of Turkey’s democracy to the ballot box. In municipal elections on March 31st, the ballot box struck back. Despite taking a plurality of the national vote, Mr Erdogan’s…
LONDON — In the political realm, no one knows how Brexit’s long-running theater of the absurd will end. But for much of the business world, Britain’s departure from the European Union has effectively happened. Nearly three years of uncertainty since the June 2016 referendum has forced companies to plan for the worst — the prospect…
