Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionJamal Khashoggi: What we know about the journalist's disappearance and death Turkey says it has shared recordings related to the murder of the journalist and writer Jamal Khashoggi with the US, the UK, Saudi Arabia and others.Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan repeated his assertion that Saudi Arabia…
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. logged 10 billion yuan ($1.44 billion) of sales volume in the opening minutes of its annual Singles’ Day extravaganza, outpacing last year’s start as shoppers around the world swarmed the e-commerce giant’s online bazaars. China’s largest company, which is trying to drum up business via a concurrent televised entertainment spectacle featuring…
ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images On Friday, Facebook followed Google’s lead and announced to employees that it would be ending its policy that required mandatory arbitration for employee sexual harassment claims. The news was first reported by the Wall Street Journal, which noted that there was also an update to "its interoffice dating policy to require any…
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. companies are warning about rising wages eating into profit margins, increasing investor worries that next year’s expected drop in profit growth may be sharper than feared. FILE PHOTO - A sign for the Wall Street subway station is seen in the financial district in New York City, U.S., August 23,…
Three dangerous wildfires are raging in California. The Camp Fire, in northern California, started Thursday morning and quickly charred the entire town of Paradise, which is home to 27,000. The flames grew so fast — a pace of 80 football fields per minute— that four people were burned to death in their cars, the Butte…
print-edition icon Print edition | United States Nov 8th 2018 | WASHINGTON, DC “DEMOCRACY IS THE art of running the circus from the monkey cage,” the American satirist H.L. Mencken once quipped. Usually this is done by delegating responsibility, but occasionally the frustrated monkeys decide matters for themselves. In this mid-term election, they opted for…
WASHINGTON — President Trump said on Friday that he has not yet spoken to the new acting attorney general, Matthew G. Whitaker, about the special counsel investigation, and he distanced himself from Mr. Whitaker by suggesting that he did not know him. Mr. Whitaker, who now oversees the investigation, has visited the Oval Office several…
Image copyright AFP Image caption A vigil was held to pay tribute to the victims of the shooting on Thursday A man who survived a mass shooting in Las Vegas last year was among those killed in Wednesday's attack in California, his family says.Telemachus Orfanos, 27, died alongside 11 others when a man opened fire…
People across the U.S. who have been holding their breath since news of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s fall and three fractured ribs broke on Wednesday can exhale. Ginsburg, 85, is recovering well and already working again, according to her nephew Daniel Stiepleman. Stiepleman told Reuters that Ginsburg is “doing great” and is even…
Enlarge / Want to flex your coding and hacking skills but can't get to a con? RunCode is for you. Last year, a group of dedicated volunteers launched Codewarz, an online coding “capture the flag” (CTF) contest originally developed as an on-site competition for colleges and training events. Paid for entirely out of their own…
