The special counsel Robert Mueller released a memorandum on Friday detailing the cooperating and witness testimony provided by Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer and longtime fixer. Mueller's sentencing memo and a separate memo filed last week by Cohen's lawyers say Cohen has provided 70 hours of testimony to the special counsel, who…
AFTER 18 years, Germany's ruling Christian Democratic Union has a new leader. Inside a conference centre in Hamburg the party chose Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer to succeed Angela Merkel, who remains Germany's chancellor, at least for now. After delivering a passionate speech in which she promised to restore the party's flagging fortunes, Mrs Kramp-Karrenbauer (widely known as…
Federal prosecutors said on Friday that President Trump directed illegal payments to ward off a potential sex scandal that threatened his chances of winning the White House in 2016, putting the weight of the Justice Department behind accusations previously made by his former lawyer. The lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, had said that as the election…
Tesla CEO Elon Musk said in a TV interview that “it’s possible” that his company would buy several General Motors factories that the company has slated to close. Last month, GM announced plans to close five plants in Ohio, Maryland, Michigan and Ontario in 2019. Additionally, the automaker said it would cut its workforce by…
US employers hired fewer people than forecast in November as the unemployment rate held at a 49-year low, according to the jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics released Friday. Nonfarm payrolls increased by 155,000, extending the record streak of net job additions in the US to its 98th month. Economists had forecast that…
IT TOOK THERESA MAY a year and a half to reach a deal with the European Union. It looks as if it will take Britain’s own Parliament less than a month to throw it out. An imminent vote on whether to approve the prime minister’s Brexit agreement seems almost certain to be lost by a…
The Justice Department has not revealed what Huawei was doing to run afoul of the sanctions. Chinese companies regularly do business in Iran, and much of that trade complies with sanctions regulations. The question appears to be whether Huawei sold technology from the United States to Iran or in some other manner. While the case…
Actor, comedian, and filmmaker Tyler Perry is perhaps best known for his “Madea” character and his long-running sitcom, Tyler Perry’s House of Payne. But after today, he’s probably going to be best known for his generosity towards a very specific group of people shopping at very specificWalmart locations around Atlanta, his longtime hometown. On Thursday…
After seeming to ease trade tensions with China over the weekend at the G20 summit, the US once again drew the country's ire Wednesday when news emerged of the arrest of Meng Wanzhou, the CFO of the Chinese tech giant Huawei. Meng, the daughter of Huawei's founder, Ren Zhengfei, was arrested in Canada on Saturday…
AFTER LISTING on the Toronto stock exchange in 2006 Nautilus Minerals became the public face of a daring new industry: deep-sea mining. It planned to pursue riches on the ocean floor, mining metals such as gold, zinc and copper, desired respectively for lustre, alloys and electronics. Robotic machines would cut, grind and gather volcanic rock…
