Goldman Sachs, which lacked the inroads into Saudi Arabia that other banks had, sent its co-president, Harvey M. Schwartz, along with the head of its Middle East and North Africa business. Endeavor, the Beverly Hills holding company for entertainment agencies, sent its co-chief executive, Ariel Emanuel, to help push along negotiations for a Saudi investment.…
In Donald J. Trump’s version of how he got rich, he was the master dealmaker who parlayed an initial $1 million loan from his father into a $10 billion empire. It was his guts and gumption that overcame setbacks, and his father, Fred C. Trump, was simply a cheerleader. But an investigation by The New…
INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana (Reuters) - The commercial opens with an appeal to fear: a hoodie-wearing man prowling an alley, knife in hand. His face remains hidden but the ad makes it clear: He’s an illegal immigrant. FILE PHOTO: Thousands of Hondurans fleeing poverty and violence move in a caravan toward the United States, in Santa Rosa…
DUBAI (Reuters) - So grave is the fallout from the disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi that King Salman has felt compelled to intervene, five sources with links to the Saudi royal family said. Last Thursday, Oct. 11, the king dispatched his most trusted aide, Prince Khaled al-Faisal, governor of Mecca, to Istanbul to try…
President Donald Trump jokingly said in a speech that if he ever gets impeached, it would be because his supporters "didn't go out to vote." Trump began on Thursday night by embellishing some of his economic achievements as he spoke at a campaign rally in Billings, Montana. "You look at the numbers at every category,…
HOTAN, China — On the edge of a desert in far western China, an imposing building sits behind a fence topped with barbed wire. Large red characters on the facade urge people to learn Chinese, study law and acquire job skills. Guards make clear that visitors are not welcome. Inside, hundreds of ethnic Uighur Muslims…
In Portland, Robert McCullough, an energy economist who describes himself as a “liberal Republican,” was struck by Judge Kavanaugh’s emotional tone as he pilloried Democrats on the committee and cried as he talked about how the charges had affected his family and children. “For an experienced judge to issue such a tirade is very unusual,”…
Democrats aren’t the only 2020 threat. Photo: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images Republican pros have, in recent weeks, quietly settled on new conventional wisdom: If Donald Trump is not impeached first, he is likely to face a primary challenge — of some sort — in 2020. The matter was regarded as an open question for most of 2018,…
(Reuters) - Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams admitted defeat in her effort to become the first black female U.S. governor on Friday, but said she planned to sue the state over voting problems and “gross mismanagement” of the election. Abrams’ announcement effectively hands victory to Republican Brian Kemp in a bitter race that has drawn national…
Special Counsel Robert Mueller now has a chance to question one of the key figures who has eluded him so far in his Russia probe — former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort. Manafort struck a plea deal Friday with prosecutors that requires him to “cooperate fully, truthfully, completely, and forthrightly” with investigators “in any and…
