FEBRUARY 13, 2020
MORRISTOWN, N.J. — Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, the former National Security Council aide and impeachment witness President Donald Trump fired Friday, was just doing his job, former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly told students and guests at a Drew University event here Wednesday night.
Over a 75-minute speech and Q&A session, Kelly laid out, in the...
FEBRUARY 12, 2020
Credit freezes and unfreezes with the three major credit bureaus — Equifax, Experian and TransUnion — will be free for everyone by federal law starting Sept. 21.
If you needed a reminder about why it's important to freeze your credit, you got it Monday.
Four members of China's military have been charged with hacking into Equifax's computer systems in 2017 and...
FEBRUARY 12, 2020
The crimes remain similar but the techniques are getting more sophisticated. - Getty Images
Criminals netted $3.5bn (£2.7bn) from cyber-crimes reported to the FBI alone in 2019, according to the service's internet crime complaint centre (IC3).
It received 467,361 complaints from individuals and businesses during the year and has had nearly five million since its inception in 2000.
Phishing...
FEBRUARY 12, 2020
General Motors engineer Alex Archer with the 2021 GMC Yukon on Thursday, January 23, 2020 that she had a role in designing part of the interior. Archer worked on the new and innovative power console that with the push of a button can slide back and forth to revel lots of storage space giving owners an extra...
FEBRUARY 12, 2020
Pope Francis waves from the balcony of St Peter's basilica during the traditional "Urbi et Orbi" Christmas message to the city and the world, on December 25, 2019 at St Peter's square in Vatican. - (Photo by ALBERTO PIZZOLI/AFP via Getty Images)
Last year, Pope Francis called for "bold proposals" to meet the spiritual needs of Catholics...
FEBRUARY 12, 2020
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said there had been 'notable progress' in negotiations. - Olivier Douliery
The US and the Taliban appeared closer Wednesday to a breakthrough in talks over an American troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, after Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said there had been "notable progress" in negotiations.
Washington and the insurgents have been locked in gruelling discussions that...
FEBRUARY 12, 2020
With inflation mounting its head in January, RBI's decision to keep the interest rates unchanged in the final monetary policy of FY20 gets validated.
In its final bi-monthly monetary policy for FY20, the RBI kept repo rate unchanged at 5.15 per cent and revised inflation projection upward.
The retail inflation inched up to a six-year high in January...
FEBRUARY 11, 2020
Brief Scorecard: New Zealand 300 for 5 (Nicholls 80, Guptill 66, de Grandhomme 58*, Chahal 3-47) beat India 296 for 7 (Rahul 112, Iyer 62, Bennett 4-64) by five wickets
Colin de Grandhomme unleashes his power. - Getty Images
New Zealand consigned India to their first bilateral ODI whitewash in more than 30 years, riding on the efforts...
FEBRUARY 11, 2020
The U.S. Army’s Signals Intelligence Service was headed by William Friedman, center, in the mid-1930s. Other members, from left: Herrick F. Bearce, Solomon Kullback, U.S. Army Capt. Harold G. Miller, Louise Newkirk Nelson, seated, Abraham Sinkov, U.S. Coast Guard Lt. L.T. Jones and Frank B. Rowlett. The decades-long arrangement, among the most closely guarded secrets of...
FEBRUARY 11, 2020
Job openings fell to 6.4 million in December, the lowest level since December 2017.
The so-called JOLTS report showed that vacancies no longer outnumber job seekers.
Vacancies continued to decline in manufacturing with a 24% decline year-over-year.
Quality of jobs remains low, says Westwood’s Dan Alpert
Job openings tumbled again in December to their lowest level in two...
