China is winning the race against the United States to build a faster nationwide wireless network that uses 5G technology, billed as the mobile industry’s future. Unless the U.S. moves more quickly, it will be at a major disadvantage when comes to creating dominant new companies in the emerging space. That’s the conclusion of Deloitte…
On Monday, YouTube became the latest platform to boot content of the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones from its site, hours after Apple first took steps to remove most of Jones' podcasts from its services, citing the company's hate-speech guidelines. Now, those who try to visit The Alex Jones Channel on YouTube will be greeted by…
WASHINGTON — President Trump said on Sunday that a Trump Tower meeting between top campaign aides and a Kremlin-connected lawyer was designed to “get information on an opponent” — the starkest acknowledgment yet that a statement he dictated last year about the encounter was misleading. Mr. Trump made the comment in a tweet on Sunday…
A U.S. District Court on Friday rejected election regulations that allowed even very large donors to politically active nonprofit groups to remain anonymous. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), the group which brought the suit, described the ruling as “a major game changer” in an era when political spending by non-campaign groups has…
Media reports say President Donald Trump is worried about his son, Donald Trump Jr. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson President Donald Trump tweeted Sunday morning to dismiss reports that he fears his son, Donald Trump Jr., is becoming entangled in the special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation . "Fake News reporting, a complete fabrication, that I am concerned about…
Mr. Kavanaugh, for his part, prepared a report concluding that Mr. Foster had committed suicide, investigated whether documents had been unlawfully removed from Mr. Foster’s office, and litigated cases on attorney-client and executive privilege. When he returned to the independent counsel’s fourth-floor offices at 1001 Pennsylvania Avenue, just across the street from the F.B.I. headquarters,…
The family of Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and elusive White House adviser, has closed a long-term lease on 666 Fifth Avenue, a Manhattan retail-and-office high-rise. The deal will include a large upfront rent payment, allowing the Kushners to escape a debt load that had been an existential threat to their real estate business…
Theo Wargo/NBC/Getty Images for 'The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon', Olivier Douliery/Getty Images Twitter lit up with criticism against President Donald Trump after he took aim at NBA star LeBron James on Friday night. In an interview that aired on CNN last Monday, James and CNN host Don Lemon discussed politics and James' recent opening…
The least educated American workers, who took the hardest hit in the Great Recession, were also among the slowest to harvest the gains of the recovery. Now they are a striking symbol of a strong economy. The unemployment rate for those without a high school diploma fell to 5.1 percent in July, the Labor Department…
First came the selfie, and most people pointed their phone cameras to their face. Then came the selfie stick, which left some tourists rolling their eyes at others who used them. Then came the selfie filter. And that has left some people—notably plastic surgeons—speaking out against the trend. Or rather, against the wish that people…
