WASHINGTON — In his first 13 years on the Supreme Court, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.’s main challenge was trying to assemble five votes to move the court to the right, though there were only four reliably conservative justices. Now he faces a very different problem. With the retirement of Justice Anthony M. Kennedy…
Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker said Friday that there’s no reason to interfere in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation, undercutting President Donald Trump’s frequent claim the probe is a “witch hunt.” Whitaker gave key assurances in testimony before the House Judiciary Committee: “I have not interfered in any way” in Mueller’s probe of Russian…
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has accused American Media Inc. (AMI), the publisher of the National Enquirer, of attempting to extort him over leaked naked photos. In January 2019, the National Enquirer published an exposé into an affair between the billionaire tech exec and the former news anchor and helicopter pilot Lauren Sanchez, and said that…
IN AMERICA, THE world’s largest economy and its second biggest polluter, climate change is becoming hard to ignore. Extreme weather has grown more frequent. In November wildfires scorched California; last week Chicago was colder than parts of Mars. Scientists are sounding the alarm more urgently and people have noticed—73% of Americans polled by Yale University…
Federal prosecutors determined that in American Media’s work with Mr. Cohen — and for Mr. Trump’s candidacy, according to Mr. Cohen — the company operated in more of a supportive political function for Mr. Trump, The Times reported in July. And when the authorities subpoenaed the company in April, its executives decided against fighting it,…
The U.S. government would be in “uncharted territory” if Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin were to block a House request to release President Donald Trump’s tax returns, a law professor told a congressional panel on Thursday. The Democrats who now control the House Ways and Means Committee are eager to get their hands on the returns…
Germany's antitrust regulator, the Bundeskartellamt (Federal Cartel Office), on Thursday issued Facebook with an ultimatum: Stop hoarding people's data. Following an unprecedented three-year investigation, involving extensive conversations with Facebook, the Bundeskartellamt issued a press statement declaring that it has "imposed on Facebook far-reaching restrictions in the processing of user data." It demands that Facebook —…
REST IN PEACE, “Trainbus”. On February 6th Margrethe Vestager, the European Union’s competition commissioner, vetoed a merger between Germany’s Siemens and France’s Alstom that proposed to do for train-building what Airbus has done for plane-building: create a European giant capable of competing with the world’s biggest. The move dismays Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron, who…
Her older sister, Lyna Yip, who arrived in the United States with two of her uncles ahead of her parents, sister and brother, also had surgery to remove cataracts but emerged with better vision. The family settled in Monterey Park, a suburb of Los Angeles. Ms. Yip-Williams’s father became a wholesale vegetable buyer and her…
The death of a crypto executive trapped C$190 million on a Canadian exchange. Or did it? Ever since Quadriga CX revealed last month that founder Gerald Cotten, who died in India in December, was the only person able to access the exchange’s digital ledgers, scores of blockchain analysts, research companies, and amateur sleuths have been…
