President Biden said Tuesday he has decided on a U.S. response to Sunday’s drone strike on a remote outpost in Jordan that killed three American soldiers and wounded more than 40 others, although the decision was not announced. Asked by reporters outside the White House whether he had decided on how to respond to the…
A Delaware judge on Tuesday invalidated the $56 billion pay package Tesla CEO Elon Musk ruled that the company’s board had failed to demonstrate “that the compensation plan was fair” or provide much evidence that they even negotiated with him. Tesla’s stock price slipped about 3% in after-hours trading on Tuesday after news of the…
The war in Ukraine has “quietly eroded” Russian President Vladimir V. Putin’s power, CIA Director William J. Burns wrote in an essay published Tuesday. While Putin’s grip on power is unlikely to wane soon, Burns wrote in Foreign Affairs, discontent has “corroded the Russian leadership and people” and allowed the CIA to recruit more spies….
Dmitry Rybolovlev, President of As Monaco Football Club SA, arrives in court in New York, USA, on Tuesday, January 9, 2024. Auction house Sotheby’s abused its privileges, power and reputation to defraud Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev of millions of dollars while he built a world-class art collection, the wealthy businessman’s lawyers argued on the first…
The main Democratic super PAC supporting President Biden’s re-election bid, Future Forward, is starting this week to set aside $250 million for advertising in key battleground states, a move it says is the largest single political advertising purchase by one Super PAC is in the history of the nation. The ads, to be split between…
Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan gestures to media members at his residence in Lahore, Pakistan, May 18, 2023. Mohsin Raza | Reuters Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for leaking state secrets, his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) party confirmed in a post on social media site X…
The Pentagon on Monday identified the dead soldiers as Sgt. William Jerome Rivers, 46, of Carrollton, Georgia; Spec Kennedy Ladon Sanders, 24, of Waycross, Georgia; and Spec. Breonna Alexsondria Moffett, 23, of Savannah, Georgia. The three were assigned to the 718th Engineer Company, 926th Engineer Battalion, 926th Engineer Brigade, an Army Reserve unit based at…
Viktor Orban, Hungary’s Prime Minister, arrives at the EU Council headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, on Monday, May 30, 2022, on the first day of the European Union (EU) Leaders’ Summit. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Hungary accused the European Union of blackmail after a leaked document reportedly suggested the bloc plans to sabotage Budapest’s…
Norfolk Southern, the operator of the toxic chemical freight train that derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, nearly a year ago, has agreed to participate in a federal program that allows employees to confidentially report safety problems, the company and federal officials announced announced on Monday. After the derailment, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg called on Norfolk…
Senator Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat from Massachusetts, left, speaks with Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell during a hearing of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee on Tuesday, September 28, 2021 in Washington, DC, UNITED STATES. Kevin Dietsch | Bloomberg | Getty Images Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and three other Democratic lawmakers are urging…
