Federal Reserve officials said at their latest meeting they likely would raise rates “in the near term” as the economy strengthens, although several said their support for the move would hinge on inflation picking up, according to minutes released Wednesday.
Uber revealed it paid hackers $100,000 in an effort to conceal a data breach affecting 57 million accounts last year, the latest in a string of scandals for the world’s most highly valued startup. 221
Facebook plans to tell millions of users who liked or followed any of the 290 Facebook and Instagram pages created by Russian actors that they were ensnared in an alleged misinformation campaign around the U.S. presidential election last year. 80
Rep. Joe Barton (R., Texas) apologized to his constituents on Wednesday for not using better judgment in his personal life, after a nude photo of him circulated on the internet this week. 73
Rather than throw money at things just because they’re on sale this holiday season, you should buy gifts that will retain value over time. Here are the gadgets we’ve lived with and loved this year: items for the music lover, the cook, the workaholic and child (or child at heart).
Ireland has become an unexpectedly difficult hurdle to advancing stalled Brexit talks, with Dublin warning that Britain isn’t doing enough to prevent the return of a border across the island that could impede commerce and reconciliation efforts.
Despite mass demonstrations across Zimbabwe, it was the 93-year-old president’s attempted purge of key rivals that sparked a well-coordinated military rebellion, an impeachment move and finally, his resignation. 73
CFOs say the ubiquitous spreadsheet software that revolutionized accounting in the 1980s hasn’t kept up with the demands of contemporary corporate finance units. 202
Scientists recently said an artificial intelligence program diagnosed pneumonia on chest X-rays more accurately than human radiologists. Should radiologists worry? Probably not. AI is more likely to make their jobs easier, not less necessary.
One of the biggest potential casualties of the trade scuffle under way between Mexico and the U.S. is also one of America’s favorite consumer products: cheap, high-definition, flat-panel televisions. 539
Exxon Mobil Corp. has joined with seven other big energy companies to reduce pollution from natural gas production, an effort by the industry to present itself as part of the solution as governments and consumers demand more environmentally friendly energy.
Oil prices rose to the highest level in more than two years Wednesday, boosted by a drop in U.S. crude stockpiles.
Stock-picking hedge fund managers are riding big gains from technology and internet giants, crowding in and holding tight to squeeze out their best performance in years.
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s enforcement actions and fines plunged in the first year of the Trump administration from a year earlier, when the figures were lifted by big settlements with banks.
Stocks stalled Wednesday ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday, as declines among technology and financial firms snapped the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500’s two-day winning streaks.
President Donald Trump has returned to his Mar-a-Lago resort to find a winter White House that increasingly has become in embroiled in the politics of his first year in office. 67
Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigators are asking questions about White House adviser Jared Kushner’s interactions with foreign leaders during the presidential transition and what role he may have played in firing ex-FBI Director James Comey. 930
A federal judge threw out two long-running lawsuits challenging the National Security Agency’s collection of phone records under a surveillance program that Congress curbed in 2015.
A former doctor accused of molesting girls while working for USA Gymnastics and Michigan State University pleaded guilty Wednesday to multiple charges of sexual assault and will face at least 25 years in prison.
Days after being shot through the lungs and intestines as he defected across the Korean demilitarized zone, a North Korean soldier has recovered enough to joke with medical staff, watch Hollywood movies and request K-pop. But he is still in a fragile state.
Eight people have been rescued and three are missing after a U.S. Navy aircraft crashed into the sea south of Japan. 91
A Pakistani court lifted the house arrest of Hafiz Saeed, the man accused by India and the U.S. of masterminding a 2008 terror attack in Mumbai that killed 166 people.
A United Nations court sentenced Bosnian Serb General Ratko Mladic to life in prison for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes during the Bosnian war in the 1990s.
The jet set hasn’t descended on the French archipelago of Guadeloupe just yet, which makes it ideal for a great-value, no-fuss long winter weekend.
They say wisdom comes with age. Maybe, but not the kind of wisdom I always cared about.