JULY 12, 2018
US Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh incurred tens of thousands of dollars of credit card debt buying baseball tickets over the past decade and at times reported liabilities that could have exceeded the value of his cash accounts and investment assets, according to a review of Kavanaugh’s financial disclosures and information provided by the White House.
White...
JULY 11, 2018
Jeff Bezos’s wealth has reached an incredible new milestone.
As of Tuesday, according to a Forbes estimate, the Amazon founder and CEO has a net worth of $143.1 billion—making him at least $50 billion richer than any other person on Earth.
Bezos became the world’s richest man last summer, when his net worth (then around $90 billion) surpassed that...
JULY 11, 2018
Apple has not openly discussed its research into autonomous vehicles. (Emmanuel Dunand / AFP/Getty Images)
For about two years, Xiaolang Zhang was privy to information to which many in the tech world can only dream of having access: the inner workings of Apple Inc.'s secretive autonomous-car research.
Over the weekend, the former Apple engineer was arrested by U.S. authorities...
JULY 11, 2018
More than 40 percent of Americans say that Barack Obama was the best or second-best president in their lifetime, according to a new poll from the Pew Research Center.
The poll asked people in an open-ended format which president has done the best job in their lifetimes, using respondents' first and second choices for the survey's findings.
Forty-four percent...
JULY 11, 2018
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Canadian Defense Minister Harjit Sajjan arrive at the 2018 NATO Summit in Brussels, Belgium, on July 11, 2018. - Sean Gallup/Getty Images
New figures show that Canadian military spending will be cut significantly, even as Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau prepares to face U.S. President Donald Trump’s demands for higher NATO military...
JULY 11, 2018
U.S. President Donald Trump holds a breakfast meeting with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg (left) at the NATO Summit on July 11, 2018 in Brussels, Belgium. - Kevin Lamarque/Reuters
BRUSSELS, BELGIUM - Angela Merkel pushed back against Donald Trump’s extraordinary tirade against Germany on the first day of the NATO summit in Brussels on Wednesday, denying her country...
JULY 10, 2018
NEW YORK - Michael Cohen's new attorney says his client has made a "declaration of independence" from Donald Trump and no longer would take a bullet for the president in any investigation.
Attorney Lanny Davis told The Hill's new morning show Rising with Krystal Ball and Buck Sexton that Cohen's statements to ABC News' George Stephanopolous in a...
JULY 10, 2018
Former Defense Secretary Lord Carrington is shown in London in 2002. - Stefan Rousseau, PA Images/PA Images via Getty Images
Former British foreign secretary Lord Carrington, the last surviving member of Winston Churchill's post-war government, has died at the age of 99, Downing Street said Tuesday.
One of Britain's most illustrious 20th century diplomats, Prime Minister Theresa May...
JULY 10, 2018
Security barriers are installed and roads are closed close to Winfield House in Regent's Park, the U.S. ambassador's London residence, on July 10, 2018, ahead of President Donald Trump's visit. - ISABEL INFANTES/AFP/Getty Images
The U.S. Embassy in London issued an alert on Tuesday to Americans in the British capital, warning them to keep a low profile...
JULY 10, 2018
Serena Williams celebrates after serving out to love to take the final set against Camila Giorgi. - Reuters
Having cruised through her first four matches here, the question was asked of Serena Williams if she would rather have had a tough test to see exactly where her game is at. On Tuesday, she received that test, and she...
