The U.S. and Iran remain deadlocked over reopening the Strait of Hormuz as each side tries to see how long the other can hold out, and signs of significant oil flows out of the Persian Gulf indicate President Donald Trump is betting he has additional leeway. In the past week, the administration has pushed back
President Donald Trump’s onslaught of tariffs was initially meant to grow government revenue. However, they may have inadvertently enabled a multi-billion dollar tax scheme for the U.S. economy: Companies have found tactics to evade the sky-high tariffs and are engaging in fraud that could have dire consequences for the country, including lowered federal tax revenues
There’s an ongoing arms race to protect identities and privacy in the age of facial recognition, biometric scanning and data collection. Now, some of those concerns are coming from the influx of wearables, namely, smart glasses, and how to go about protecting oneself from being filmed in public. Some joke about singing Disney songs, others
Luigi Mangione pleaded guilty Friday to federal stalking charges in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, an admission that immediately set off a legal fight over whether he can still be tried on separate murder charges in New York state court. Mangione, 28, entered the plea at a hastily scheduled hearing in Manhattan federal
When Kellyn Smith Kenny joined AT&T as CMO in November 2020, she joined a company whose identity was about to change dramatically. AT&T had spent years expanding into entertainment, including its $85 billion acquisition of Time Warner, and owned satellite television provider DirecTV. By the time Kenny arrived, that strategy was giving way to a
Before Ray Dalio built Bridgewater Associates into one of the world’s largest hedge funds, he was advising clients on a more basic business problem: the cost of feeding chickens. That expertise, according to Dalio, helped McDonald’s to solve an early obstacle to introducing Chicken McNuggets, now one of its most popular products. Back in the