Rudy Giuliani speaks during a news conference at the White House on Sept. 27. Getty Images President Donald Trump was told last year by U.S. intelligence officials that his personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, had been targeted by a Russian intelligence influence operation, the Washington Post reported Thursday. Citing four unnamed former officials, the Post reported […]
Twitter also suffered an outage Thursday. AFP/Getty Images Twitter Inc. will change its hacked materials policy after causing an uproar Wednesday by blocking an unsubstantiated New York Post article about Hunter Biden. That caused a cry of outrage from conservatives, who claimed Twitter TWTR, +0.10% was biased and censoring the article. In a series of […]
Joe Biden kept up his attacks on President Donald Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, as the Democratic presidential nominee at a town hall on Thursday night also addressed packing the Supreme Court. “The words of a president matter,” Biden said during the event in Philadelphia that was hosted by ABC News. “When a president […]
[unable to retrieve full-text content]President Donald Trump used a Florida town-hall meeting Thursday night to call for a middle-class tax cut if he’s re-elected, appealing to voters’ pocketbooks as he lags his rival Joe Biden in Sunshine State polls.
Twitter headquarters in San Francisco. Getty Images Twitter Inc. shares were little changed in after-hours trading Thursday as the social-media platform experienced a massive and as-yet-unexplained outage. Twitter’s feed went down around 5:30 p.m. Eastern, with users unable to post new tweets or see anything posted past that time. Service was restored for most users […]
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie at the White House. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said he was “wrong” not to wear a mask to the White House Rose Garden event for the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett. Christie and several other attendees and White House officials later […]
Hunter Biden entered into a consulting contract with China’s largest private energy company that initially earned him $10 million a year “for introductions alone,” according to leaked emails. In an email chain from Aug. 2, 2017, Biden discussed a deal with the former chairman of CEFC China Energy, Ye Jianming, saying Ye agreed to change […]
Venmo is rolling out a credit card with a personal QR code that users can show friends when trying to split payments. PayPal Venmo’s new credit card, by design, is meant to appeal to a younger demographic than a flashier card like the Chase Sapphire or American Express Gold Card. But the card’s innovations when […]
Two-thirds of Procter & Gamble’s shareholders this week defied the company’s own recommendations, upping the pressure on the consumer-goods giant to reduce sourcing virgin timber for its Charmin toilet paper, Puffs tissues, Bounty paper towels and more. Some 67% of shareholders voted yes on Green Century Equity Fund’s shareholder proposal, which read “shareholders request P&G […]
Solar panels and wind turbines are pictured on a barren mountain at Shenjing Village, China. Oil demand will plateau in 2030 and drop from there, helping clear room for solar energy to become the “new king” of electricity generation. That’s the assessment in recent days from the International Energy Agency, which said in its 2020 world energy […]