A judge who lifted New England quarterback Tom Brady’s four-game “Deflategate” suspension last week got plenty of advice from the public before he ruled, including from a Nevada teacher who said her sixth graders thought Brady would be “plain stupid” ...
Read More »Trade Center steel almost gone, but demand remains strong
In an airplane hangar at New York’s Kennedy Airport, fewer than 30 pieces of steel remain from the debris recovered after terrorists flew hijacked planes into the World Trade Center’s twin towers on Sept. 11, 2001. Even 14 years after ...
Read More »Clinton’s email woes spin a tale about the ascendance of IT
One congressional committee subpoenaed him. Two others are dangling the promise of immunity to get him to dish about Hillary Rodham Clinton’s email setup. Lo, the IT guy, international man of mystery. The swirling interest around Bryan Pagliano, the former ...
Read More »Judge clears way for House lawsuit challenging health law
A federal judge cleared the way Wednesday for a legal challenge by congressional Republicans to President Obama’s health care law to proceed. U.S. District Court Judge Rosemary M. Collyer ruled the House can pursue its claim that the administration violated ...
Read More »Survey: US more competitive globally, but inequality a risk
Income inequality will remain a persistent problem despite brighter prospects for U.S. companies globally, according to an annual survey of Harvard Business School alumni. Fifty-eight percent of the respondents said they thought the U.S. economy would either become more competitive ...
Read More »Justice Dept. encourages prosecutions of corporate execs
The Justice Department issued new guidance to its prosecutors Wednesday, aimed at encouraging more white-collar criminal and civil cases against corporate executives. The new policies come amid persistent criticism that the Justice Department, even while negotiating multi-billion-dollar settlements with large ...
Read More »In Kentucky, a clerk disrupts an unspoken agreement
Kim Tabor sometimes wears a bright orange T-shirt bearing a slogan she’s found herself repeating for weeks: “Hello my name is not Kim Davis.” Tabor works for the Rowan County Circuit Court Clerk, the office that handles court filings. Across ...
Read More »Clerk in gay-marriage fight back to work Friday or Monday
After a five-day stint in jail for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis will return to work as soon as Friday to face another day of reckoning. The apostolic Christian, now a symbol ...
Read More »Clinton says private email was a mistake, says she’s sorry
Hillary Rodham Clinton apologized Tuesday for her use of a private email account after declining since last week to express remorse for the State Department arrangement that has shaken her presidential campaign. Asked about setting up the private email account ...
Read More »Instagram expands marketing reach for businesses
Instagram is adding 30-second video ads and other features in a push to give businesses more ways to tap potential customers through the Facebook photo sharing app. The company said in a blog post that large and small advertisers will ...
Read More »Lee worked closely with lawyers in lost true-crime novel
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Harper Lee politely knocked on truck driver Robert Louis Burns’ door in rural Alabama one day more than three decades ago and asked him about the preacher he killed. The plainly dressed writer wanted to meet the ...
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