Month: December 2019

New York (AFP) – The finance and media group Bloomberg said Thursday it fixed what it termed a glitch in its market information terminals that directed users to presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg’s campaign website by typing in the letters “MIKE.” The company, which operates a major network for financial market data as well as a…

Among the many socially damaging things about the existence of billionaires is the fact that the ego of a single person with billions of dollars can exert more influence than the collective wisdom of thousands of professionals under their economic control. All the experts might say that the kingdom should focus on food and shelter…

By David Lawder WASHINGTON, Dec 5 (Reuters) – The World Bank said its board on Thursday adopted a new plan to aid China with $1 billion to $1.5 billion in low-interest loans annually through June 2025, despite the objections of U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and several U.S. lawmakers. Mnuchin told a House Financial Services…

REUTERS/Brian Snyder Stanford President Marc Tessier-Lavigne said in a letter to the university community that the ringleader of the college admissions scandal, William “Rick” Singer, approached seven coaches at the school about trading bribes for students’ recruitments to the school at athletes.  Tessier-Lavigne said an external review of the case revealed that only the school’s…

Key point: Washington has wanted to expand NATO’s anti-missile capabilities for a while now. A key NATO missile-defense site in Romania on Aug. 9, 2019 completed a three-month upgrade process that had forced operators to take the system offline. To fill the resulting gap in coverage, the U.S. Army in May 2019 deployed to Romania one…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Tennessee Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that a newspaper cannot use the state’s fair report privilege law as a shield against a defamation lawsuit for a story that was based on a one-on-one interview with a police detective. The unanimous ruling found that the privilege only protects stories based on…

WASHINGTON – Since the early days of the Russia investigation, President Donald Trump and his allies have called for someone to “investigate the investigators.” Early last year, the president got some of what he wanted: The Justice Department’s inspector general, an independent watchdog, announced a review into potential surveillance abuses by the FBI, focusing on…

President Trump said Tuesday that while he thinks next week’s report on the FBI’s Russia investigation by Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz will still have some “devastating” findings, he is really looking forward to the conclusions of a parallel investigation by U.S. Attorney John Durham. Durham, selected and assisted by Attorney General William Barr…

The Justice Department’s inspector general has concluded that the FBI omitted crucial details in its requests for warrants to surveil Trump campaign associate Carter Page, saying the agency neglected to mention that some of the information the warrant applications were based on was shaky. Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s yet unpublished draft report found…

* Two civilians killed, a third wounded and in hospital * Names of gunman and victims not released * Motive for attack not given * Gunman dies of “apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound” (Adds more details) By Dan Whitcomb Dec 4 (Reuters) – A U.S. Navy sailor shot dead two civilians working at Hawaii’s historic military…