There’s a big twist in the Michael Cohen case: Donald Trump’s longtime lawyer received payments of $500,000 after the 2016 presidential election from a firm controlled by a billionaire Russian oligarch.
WhatsApp co-founder Jan Koum, who created the world’s biggest messaging app before selling it for $19 billion in 2014, is resigning from Facebook and its board, reportedly over the company’s attempts to weaken encryption and collect more detailed information on users.
WeWork, the shared-office startup, isn’t just pioneering new ways of working, but new ways of accounting.
Donald Trump and his advisors are increasingly worried that Michael Cohen—Trump’s longtime lawyer, whose home and offices were raided by the FBI last week—will be impelled to cooperate with federal prosecutors.
The CEO of Facebook broke his long silence on Wednesday, five days after a huge scandal broke about political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica and its illicit use of Facebook user data.
Bloomberg reports that Winn-Dixie parent Bi-Lo and Tops Friendly Market could both declare bankruptcy this month, an ominous shakeout in a grocery industry that is bracing for new competition from Amazon and its newly acquired Whole Foods subsidiary.
When Heather Booth was in high school, seven of her classmates were killed and 24 injured in the Fox River Grove bus-train collision. Following the 1995 disaster, transportation regulators investigated what went wrong and made dozens of changes at 16 different local, state, and federal agencies.
Harvey Weinstein’s former production company has fired David Glasser, president and chief operating officer of the Weinstein Company, after he was named by the New York state attorney general in a damning indictment.
For the last week of US Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen’s groundbreaking tenure, her coworkers are offering an homage to her distinctive sartorial style:
Three of the biggest corporations in the world don’t think health care should be a business. Amazon, JP Morgan, and Berkshire Hathaway are starting a health-care company that is “free from profit-making incentives and constraints,” sending US health insurance and pharmacy stocks plummeting.
When 20-year-old Naomi Parker Fraley started working at a Navy machining shop in Alameda, California, in 1941, there was no way she could have known that she would become a lasting symbol for female empowerment.
Americans are divided on a lot of issues right now. LaCroix, the sparkly water, is not one of them.
You better watch out: The Pentagon has kicked off its elaborately choreographed tracker of Santa Claus’s sleigh—and it compares Rudolph’s nose to a weapon of mass destruction.
Walmart has over 4,600 stores in the US. Between its Supercenters (187,000 sq ft on average), Discount Stores (104,000 sq ft), Neighborhood Markets (42,000 sq ft), and Sam’s Clubs (134,000 sq ft), that’s a lot of shopping aisles to keep clean.
The US is withdrawing about 60% of its embassy staff from Havana after attacks that caused traumatic brain injuries and permanent hearing loss in at least 21 diplomats and their families, according to the Associated Press.
Crisis situations can bring out the best, worst, and stupidest behavior mankind has to offer. That’s doubly true when the crisis is in Florida, infamously home to some superhumanly weird stories. A few examples as Hurricane Irma began wreaking havok on Saturday:
The devastatingly powerful Hurricane Irma has shifted west into the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico, with an expected track through the Tampa Bay area, Florida.
Zola the gorilla’s joyous dancing briefly set the internet afire this week, with a routine seemingly inspired by the movie “Flashdance.”
Uber is in desperate need of a game-changing CEO after Travis Kalanick’s ouster last week—and one intriguing candidate is currently working at the company’s legal adversary.
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Warren Buffett blames the fraud scandal at Wells Fargo on a case of misplaced incentives, compounded by the “huge, huge error” of ignoring whistleblowers.
United says that CEO Oscar Munoz won’t become the company’s chairman next year as previously planned—and possibly never will.
United’s violent deplaning of a passenger in Chicago has put the airline industry’s business practices under a harsh spotlight—especially the common tactic of overselling seats on a given flight, on the expectation that some passengers won’t show up.
It’s Day Two of “re-accommodation-gate,” and the world’s fury at United Airlines shows no signs of abating.
