“ ‘Trump Cards.’ ” That was the branding some participants in drug-price negotiations between the pharmaceutical industry and the Trump administration reportedly slapped on the prepaid cards that President Donald Trump’s team insisted the drug companies send to U.S. seniors as part of an agreement. It turned out to be a deal breaker, according to […]
Military imaging reconnaissance satellite in Earth orbit. (ImageBank/Getty Images) WASHINGTON — Over recent days, officials from the newly minted U.S. Space Force and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence briefed multiple congressional committees on an “uptick” in Russian military activity in space targeting U.S. defense and intelligence satellites, according to two sources familiar […]
As the importance of cloud software has grown in the global pandemic, cloud-software companies have become the most stark example of initial public offerings reaching dot-com-boom levels — and beyond. This week saw stunning performance of four big software IPOs. On Wednesday, two cloud-software companies debuted on a storied day on Wall Street, ringing the […]
Unity Software Inc. Chief Executive John Riccitiello rings the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange remotely from the company’s San Francisco headquarters Friday morning. “The virtual bell ringing is a manifestation of the world moving to real-time interactive 3-D,” he told MarketWatch. NYSE The software IPO market remained hot Friday as Unity Software […]
Democratic challenger Joe Biden and President Donald Trump both were campaigning on Friday in Minnesota, with Biden speaking at a union training center in the afternoon and Trump scheduled to appear at a rally in the evening. Trump’s re-election campaign has characterized Minnesota as a battleground state that it hopes to win, after the president […]
Each week, the Trump campaign says, its staff and volunteers knock on one million American doors. And each week, the Biden campaign knocks on zero. Democratic nominee Joe Biden’s team has no plans to begin door-to-door canvassing because of COVID-19. “If you asked anybody off the record from the Biden campaign, I think they’d be […]
With Donald Trump trailing Joe Biden by about 7 percentage points in the national polls — a margin that has barely budged during one of the most tumultuous political years in memory — some of the president’s supporters have taken to dismissing Biden’s lead as a mirage. You’ll see, they insist. On Election Day, millions […]
WASHINGTON — A former model has accused President Trump of sexually assaulting her at the U.S. Open tennis tournament in 1997. Amy Dorris made the allegation in an interview with the Guardian that was published Thursday. She told the newspaper that Trump groped her outside the bathroom of his VIP box, where she and her boyfriend […]
Backers of a proposed new entity to take over Chinese-owned video-sharing app TikTok are working to create an ownership structure that would give U.S. interests a majority stake, in an effort to ease the Trump administration’s security concerns. Under the latest plan for TikTok, Oracle Corp. ORCL, -0.41% and Walmart Inc. WMT, +0.31% […]
Joe Biden is seen on a video screen as he participates in a CNN town hall moderated by Anderson Cooper in Moosic, Pa., on Thursday. Associated Press MOOSIC, Pa. — At a Thursday town hall, Joe Biden went after President Donald Trump again and again over his handling of COVID-19, calling Trump’s downplaying of the […]