Saudi Arabian fund looks to invest in Endeavor as the kingdom opens up to Hollywood Saudi Arabia is looking to acquire a stake in the Hollywood talent agency and media company Endeavor in a move that would advance the Middle Eastern kingdom’s growing ambitions in the entertainment industry. The Saudi […]
Russian exiles contacted over safety after tycoon murder UK police have begun to contact a number of Russian exiles to discuss their safety as they investigate the murder of businessman Nikolai Glushkov. The 68-year-old’s body was found at his home in south London on 12 March. The BBC has been […]
A student was suspended after staying in class and not walking out. Here’s what actually happened. An Ohio high school student has found himself at the center of political controversy after an online post about his suspension for staying in class during the national student school walkout went viral. But […]
Vote — or else: Crimea’s propaganda machine fans fear in closing days of Putin’s campaign On the eve of Russia’s presidential election, government television here has been airing segments showing Crimeans what they would face if not for Russian President Vladimir Putin: rocket fire, grieving women and same-sex weddings. On […]
Man Says He’s Not Dead. Court Doesn’t Buy It Constantin Reliu, a dead man, has been having himself a rough year. The Turkish government deported him in January for having expired documents, sending him back to a Romania he says he hadn’t seen since the late 1990s. And you can […]
Facebook Suspends Cambridge Analytica for Failing to Delete User Data Facebook Inc. FB 0.67% said it suspended Cambridge Analytica, a data firm that helped President Donald Trump with the 2016 election, after learning that it misled the social-media giant and violated its policy for handling user data. Facebook said late […]
Facebook suspends Cambridge Analytica, the data analysis firm that worked on the Trump campaign Facebook announced late Friday that it had suspended the account of Strategic Communication Laboratories, and its political data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica — which used Facebook data to target voters for President Donald Trump’s campaign in […]
Trump After Dark: The H.R. Department edition The prolonged goodbye of President Donald Trump’s national security adviser H.R. McMaster has a familiar pattern to it: Rumors swirl, potential replacements are floated and then — no immediate action from President Trump. Perhaps even a White House denial. Getting “Tillersoned,” as POLITICO’s […]
March Madness live: No. 16 UMBC completes biggest upset in NCAA tournament history UMBC, the Retrievers, the America East champions, just scored the biggest upset in the history of the NCAA tournament, routing No. 1 overall seed Virginia, 74-54. The Cavs looked slow and out of it from the start, […]
Andrew McCabe, Trump’s foil at the FBI, is fired hours before he could retire Attorney General Jeff Sessions late Friday night fired former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe, a little more than 24 hours before McCabe was set to retire — a move that McCabe alleged was an attempt to […]
