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Mastercard's CEO withdrew from Facebook's Libra over concerns about compliance, making money, and wallets, he told the Financial Times.
Ajay Banga dropped out because Libra's leaders wouldn't commit to observing laws, he couldn't see how the digital currency would make money, and he was sh…

The late House Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings made Lowell's admission public in a March 2019 letter alleging that Kushner may have broken federal records laws. Democratic lawmakers and cybersecurity experts have criticized Kushner's use of WhatsApp 

Bezos' ow…

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi delayed transmitting the articles of impeachment to the Senate for a month, freezing the process while she and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell duked it out over the terms of the trial. Pelosi's central ask is that McConnell allows a vote on whether to call …

With anticipation building over Starlink's debut, company founder Elon Musk explained how future subscribers will connect to the service using a device called a phased-array antenna, which he said in 2015 should cost around $200 each. (Though some industry analysts say such devices today co…

President Donald Trump announced on Twitter over the weekend that if Iran retaliated against the US for assassinating its top military general, Qassem Soleimani, the US would respond by attacking 52 Iranian sites, including cultural ones, "VERY FAST AND VERY HARD."

"They're allowed …

The program also aired an interview with Wang "William" Leqiang, a 27-year-old man claiming to be a Chinese spy who is now seeking political refuge in Australia. Wang told "60 Minutes" that Beijing spies operate in Australia and have tried to influence politics. 

"Australians can be reas…

Three sources familiar with the talks told BuzzFeed's Ryan Mac that Facebook spent the second half of 2016 trying to buy the Shanghai-headquartered Musical.ly in an attempt to break into the Chinese market. These sources said the talks were "serious" but never came to fruition, with Faceboo…

On Wednesday afternoon, Dorsey announced that his social network is banning all political ads, an area of online advertising that is growing increasingly controversial amid rules from tech companies that allow politicians to pay to spread deliberate lies. 

The Twitter chief executive sai…

Trump mapped out part of the dangerous route taken by the airborne special forces to the terrorist's hideout in northwestern Syria. He said the aircraft traveled "very low and very fast," took an hour and 10 minutes, crossed territory held by Russia, and encountered enemy fire. The team, he…

Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff said he viewed the White House's stonewalling and refusal to allow witnesses to comply with congressional subpoenas as potential evidence of Trump's guilt. "If this witness had something to say that would be helpful to the White House, they would want him to…

About 30 House Republicans, headed by Rep. Matt Gaetz, forced their way into the hearing as Laura Cooper, the deputy assistant secretary of defense for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia, was providing private testimony as part of the impeachment inquiry inside the House Intelligence Committee's S…

"You've got about 15,000 contractors watching murders, stabbings, suicides, other gruesome, disgusting videos, for content moderation, correct?" Rep. Katie Porter of California asked Zuckerberg on Wednesday during a hearing by the House Financial Services Committee. "Yes, that is correct," …

As part of a campaign push to "clean up the corruption in our elections," Warren said she won't take campaign donations of more than $200 from executives of tech companies like Google and Facebook, or from finance executives. Warren has previously vowed not to take contributions of more tha…

Blizzard has been facing calls for boycotts and protests following the company's decision to punish "Hearthstone" player Ng Wai Chung, better known as Blitzchung. Blitzchung called for the liberation of Hong Kong during a post-match interview at a Blizzard-sponsored event on October 5.

In a June phone call with Chinese President Xi Jinping, Trump mentioned the political prospects of his Democratic rivals, former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, and also promised to stay quiet the Hong Kong protests as long as trade talks progressed, CNN reported on Thursday,…

At 7:12 on a mild late-summer morning in New York City, WeWork's registration papers hit the Securities and Exchange Commission's website. The filing, called an S-1, was expected. It was a crucial step in what up to that point had been an exquisitely choreographed march toward an initi…

The prime minister used his first appearance in the House of Commons since the Supreme Court ruled that his decision to shut down Parliament was illegal, to accuse his opponents of signing up to a "surrender bill" compelling the United Kingdom to delay Brexit.

Pushed by Cox's succes…

The travel company operates its own airline, with a fleet of nearly 50 medium- and long-range jets, and owns several smaller airlines and subsidiaries, including the German carrier Condor. Thomas Cook still had several flights in the air as of Sunday night but was expected to cease operations on…

A phone call between President Donald Trump and Ukraine's new leader, Volodymyr Zelensky, in which Trump is believed to have pushed Zelensky to investigate the Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden's son, has been building into a political firestorm.

With those words, Romney, the…

Truck drivers like Chad Boblett, a Lexington, Kentucky-based owner-operator, said 2019 has been a "bloodbath." Rates in the spot market, where loads are moved on demand rather than being facilitated through a contract, are down 15% from last year, when truckers reaped historic profits.

An image on the White House's Flickr account showed President Donald Trump being presented with Dorian's likely path, and Alabama wasn't in it.

This isn't the first time that Trump has falsely touted America's air as number one — he tweeted a similar statement in October 2018, along with a map from a World Health Organization report. The statement was not true then, and it definitely isn't now.

In terms of PM 2.5 pollution — a…

In a move that Regina George would appreciate, Amazon reportedly kept a "burn book" of all the negative things politicians, union leaders, and other prominent New York City political operatives said publicly amid negotiations for Amazon to build a second headquarters ("HQ2").

The Wall …

Hire by Google — which helped small to medium-sized business manage their interview processes and candidate pipelines — fell internally under the company's Cloud division. Part of the "difficult decision" to shutter the product, the company said, was to focus its resources on "other products in …

I've started nine firms and I'm, generously, 3-4-2 (win-lose-tie). In retrospect, and I think about this a lot, the only reliable forward-looking indicator of our firm's success or failure was … timing. Specifically, the part of the economic cycle at founding.

The firms we started in re…