Amazon could rival the nation’s big banks in as few as five years, capitalizing off its digital prowess and massive consumer base, according to a Bain & Company report. “We could imagine Amazon’s banking services growing to more than 70 million U.S. consumer relationships over the next five years or …

Tom Williams | CQ Roll Call | Getty Images Michael Cohen, a personal attorney for President Trump. Special counsel Robert Mueller is investigating a number of incidents involving President Donald Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen — including Cohen’s role in negotiations over a potential Trump Tower in Moscow, the Washington Post …

Scott Heins | Bloomberg | Getty Images Teachers and demonstrators hold signs during a rally outside the West Virginia Capitol in Charleston, West Virginia, March 2, 2018. A strike by West Virginia teachers ended on Tuesday with a deal to raise pay for all state workers by 5 percent after …

Patrick T. Fallon | Bloomberg | Getty Images John Chen, chief executive officer of BlackBerry Ltd. BlackBerry is suing Facebook for patent infringement, the company said Tuesday. “[W]e have a strong claim that Facebook has infringed on our intellectual property, and after several years of dialogue, we also have an …

Tony Gentile | Reuters President Donald Trump’s former chief strategist, Steve Bannon, poses at Piazza Navona in Rome, March 2, 2018. Populist firebrand Steve Bannon, Trump’s former White House strategist, has shifted his focus to Italy for the country’s election, which took place Sunday and plunged national politics into deep …

Luke Sharrett | Bloomberg | Getty Images A worker controls a crane to move an aluminum coil at the Arconic Inc. manufacturing facility in Alcoa, Tennessee. American aluminum producers told President Donald Trump in a letter that they are “deeply concerned” about the effect global tariffs would have on their …

Broward County Sheriff’s Office via AP This image made available by the Broward County Sheriff’s Office on Sunday, Feb. 18, 2018, shows Sheriff Scott Israel, holding the hand of Anthony Borges, 15, a student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. The teenager was shot five times during the massacre on …

Getty Images Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats answers questions during a hearing held by the Senate Armed Services Committee March 6, 2018 in Washington, DC. U.S. Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats said on Tuesday he had not seen evidence of “robust effort” by Russia to meddle in the …

Mary Catherine Wellons | CNBC Amin Nasser, CEO of Aramco speaking at the 2018 IHS CERAWeek in Houston, TX. The global oil and gas industry needs to invest more than $20 trillion over the next 25 years to meet expected growth in demand and compensate for the natural decline in …

Mikhail Svetlov | Getty Images Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks attends the forum on working youth while visiting the Uralvagonzavod, a machine plant on March 6, 2018 in Nizhny Tagil, Sverdlovsk oblast, Russia. Vladimir Putin is having a campaign trip to Nizhny Tagil prior to the 2018 Presidential Elections on …