Sears Holdings announced Feb. 11 that it would no longer sell Trump Homes items in the online stores for its Sears and Kmart brands.
The Reckitt Benckiser Group agreed to buy the Mead Johnson Nutrition Co. for $16.6 billion. It’s one of the more boring-sounding corporate deals in recent memory, until you get past the clunky company names and consider what’s actually happening.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon, a far-left candidate for French president, kicked off his campaign Feb. 5 with a neat trick, appearing in both Lyon and Paris at the same time to announce his run.
The White House’s efforts to get US president Donald Trump’s travel ban reinstated has been dealt a preliminary blow by a federal appeals court.
Jan. 30, 11am GMT: updated with latest figures.
Amid outrage, anxiety, and widespread chaos, the Trump administration on Sunday appeared to backtrack on at least one part of their sweeping actions on immigration.
“I happened to be in Scotland in Turnberry cutting a ribbon when Brexit happened and we had a vast amount of press,” Donald Trump said during a remarkably short press conference on Friday with British prime minister Theresa May. “And I said Brexit—this was the day before, you probably remember—and I said Brexit is going to happen and I was scorned in the press for making that prediction. I was scorned.”
Since donating $1.25 million in support of Donald Trump, Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel has been disrupting politics on a national level. He graced the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, and has since had a hand in the president-elect’s transition team. His taste for politics could extend to making a run for office. According to Politico, he’s been polling advisors about running for governor of California in 2018.
For years, Mark Zuckerberg identified as an atheist—at least on his profile page. But in a holiday message posted on Dec. 25, the Facebook CEO nods at a potential return to religion.
