North Carolina Republicans set off pandemonium in the state's House of Representatives on Wednesday by passing a controversial budget while some Democrats were absent during a 9/11 memorial ceremony. The Republicans overrode Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper's veto of the state budget with a 55-9 vote. It remains unclear where Democrats were during the vote and…
Politics|With Trump Hungry for Credit, Advisers Brag About North Carolina WinOfficials on the president’s re-election campaign said Dan Bishop’s narrow victory in North Carolina came thanks to Mr. Trump, who told aides he wasn’t getting recognition he felt he deserved.ImagePresident Trump and Dan Bishop at a campaign rally in Fayetteville, N.C., on Monday, one day…
GameStop, once the most dominant retailer in the video game space, plans to shut down 200 stores by the end of the year. And hundreds, if not thousands, more could be closing in the months to come. The struggling retailer, in its earnings call Tuesday, said it was on track to close between 180 and…
Bloomberg reports that Federal Trade Commission officials have been interviewing small businesses that sell through Amazon about the company's business practices.The interviews lasted roughly 90 minutes, and interviewees were asked how big a portion of their revenue Amazon sales made up, three merchants told Bloomberg.Experts told Bloomberg the length of the interviews and the number…
ImageJohn R. Bolton was President Trump’s third national security adviser.CreditCreditErin Schaff/The New York TimesSept. 10, 2019Updated 1:02 p.m. ETWASHINGTON — President Trump announced on Tuesday that he had fired John R. Bolton, his third national security adviser, amid fundamental disagreements over how to handle major foreign policy challenges like Iran, North Korea and most recently…
Fortune's Most Powerful Women Summit—international edition—kicks off in Toronto on Monday, Sept. 16. Those who can't make it to the Great White North can tune in here. We'll be hearing from top executives from the around the globe, including former PepsiCo chairman and CEO Indra Nooyi, P&G group president, North America Carolyn Tastad, and Clearbanc…
Uber's and WeWork's well-publicized struggles with public investors may not be a good look for SoftBank, their deep-pocketed backer. But for now, the fallout of those disappointments is likely to be limited, venture-capital experts say. Investors far and wide still have plenty of capital floating around and are constantly looking for ways to invest it,…
Legislation to prevent a no-deal Brexit gained formal approval, and Prime Minister Boris Johnson is likely to be rebuffed in his second try for a general election. Right NowJohn Bercow, the speaker of the House of Commons, said he would step down by Oct. 31. ImageBrexit has brought chaos to Britain’s Parliament proceedings.CreditAndrew Testa for…
President Donald Trump's ongoing beef on Twitter with supermodel Chrissy Teigen and Grammy-winning pop star John Legend has reached new heights, including a profanity-laced response—and, of course, new trending hashtags. The battle began when Trump, seemingly peeved, went on a Twitter tirade after watching Legend appear on a town hall special on MSNBC hosted by NBC…
China Labor Watch published a report Sunday claiming that Apple and Foxconn violated workers' rights in Foxconn's Zhengzhou factory, the biggest iPhone factory in the world.Investigators went undercover for as long as four years to uncover working conditions in the factory.In August 2019, 50% of the factory's workforce was made up of temporary workers, even…
