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The success of President-Elect Donald Trumps legislative agenda will depend on whether Republicans can close ranks in Congress. They nearly failed on their very first vote. Mike Johnson won reelection as House speaker by the narrowest of margins this afternoon, and only after two Republican holdouts changed their votes at the last minute. Johnson won
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Meta Platforms said Monday it had elected three new directors to its board, including Dana White, CEO of Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) and close friend of President-elect Donald Trump. The Facebook-parent also elected Charlie Songhurst, an investor and former Microsoft executive, as well as John Elkann, CEO of Exor, a holding company controlled by Italy’s Agnelli family with interests in European businesses such
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PayPal has been sued by an Asian American businesswoman who accused the digital payments company of racial bias for restricting part of a $535 million investment program to black and Hispanic applicants, costing her millions of dollars. Thursday’s complaint by Nisha Desai and her New York-based venture capital firm Andav Capital is part of a growing push among some conservatives to curtail diversity,
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Cybersecurity guru Amit Yoran, 54, a noted expert in the field who worked in the past for the Homeland Security Department and spoke on the subject on television, has died after a battle with cancer, his company said Saturday. Yoran, described as a visionary, who took a leave of absence last month, passed away Friday,
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WASHINGTON Even as Nippon Steel faced skepticism of its doomed $14.9 billion bid for US Steel from the Biden administration, it was also contending with headwinds from an unlikely source: the CEO of a rival bidder for the firm who repeatedly cast doubt on the deal’s prospects to investors. Lourenco Goncalves, CEO of steelmaker Cleveland-Cliffs, which
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US President Joe Biden is poised to officially block Nippon Steel’s proposed $14.9-billion purchase of US Steel, a person familiar with the matter said on Friday, dealing a probably fatal blow to the contentious merger plan. The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) spent months reviewing the deal for national security risks but referred the decision to Biden in December, after
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