Jonathan Ernst | Reuters Former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort arrives for arraignment on a third superseding indictment against him by Special Counsel Robert Mueller on charges of witness tampering, at U.S. District Court in Washington, June 15, 2018. Lawyers for former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort appealed on Monday …
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Adelson backs 5 candidates in midterm races who opposed Iran deal
Kiyoshi Ota | Bloomberg | Getty Images Sheldon Adelson, chairman and chief executive officer of Las Vegas Sands Corp. A week after President Donald Trump announced he was withdrawing from the Iran nuclear agreement, billionaire casino magnate Sheldon Adelson rewarded five Republican candidates with campaign donations. They all had one …
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David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images A customer looks at a motorcycle on display at the Oakland Harley-Davidson dealership in Oakland, California, U.S., on Friday, April 14, 2017. Check out the companies making headlines after the bell: Shares of Harley-Davidson climbed as much as 1 percent in extended-hours …
Read More »How to get iOS 12 public preview
Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks during the 2018 Apple Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) at the San Jose Convention Center on June 4, 2018 in San Jose, California. Apple just launched the public preview of iOS 12. That means you can now try the new software …
Read More »Education Department is failing to provide public service loan forgiveness, senators say
Sen. Tim Kaine, D-VA, along with three other senators, say student borrowers are being denied debt relief The Trump administration is denying student borrowers the debt relief they deserve, four senators are arguing. In a letter delivered to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, Sens. Tim Kaine, D-VA, Sheldon Whitehouse, D-RI, Tammy …
Read More »Ordinary investors are the real losers in the tech IPO drought
Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is reflected in a puddle in New York, U.S., on Monday, June 18, 2018. Initial public offerings are a dying breed, a phenomenon that has attracted recent attention, especially given the fire hose of emerging tech-related start-ups, …
Read More »Colleague cracks Sen. McCaskill’s rib with Heimlich maneuver
Bill Clark | CQ Roll Call | Getty Images Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo. U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin has cracked a rib of U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill while performing the Heimlich maneuver on the fellow Democrat when she began choking. A spokesman for Manchin tells the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that McCaskill …
Read More »China’s currency slide sparks rumors of an anti-Trump policy move
China’s currency has slipped markedly in the last week, to the point where it’s trading at December lows against the dollar, and that’s prompting speculation that China would be willing to use a weakened currency to fight U.S. tariffs and trade threats. But analysts say while the currency has made …
Read More »Trump’s approval ratings steady despite family separation policy
Kevin Lamarque | Reuters President Donald Trump pumps his fist as he steps from Air Force One upon arrival in Las Vegas, Nevada, June 23, 2018. President Donald Trump’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy, which dominated headlines last week and resulted in more than 2,000 children being separated from their families …
Read More »Trump’s tariffs on auto imports will hurt entire car industry: Moody’s
Matthew Busch | Bloomberg | Getty Images An employee uses a flash grinder to smooth out the frame of a sports utility vehicle at the General Motors assembly plant in Arlington, Texas. The proposed U.S. tariffs on car imports will have far reaching negative implications for the whole auto industry, …
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