A New York police officer stands on 54th Street outside the Hilton Hotel in midtown Manhattan where UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was fatally shot December 4 in New York. Stefan Jeremiah/AP Companies are closing headquarters, scrubbing their websites of top executives’ photographs and increasing armed security details for key leaders following the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian…
Romanians cast ballots Sunday in a parliamentary election sandwiched between a two-round presidential race, the first of which has plunged the European Union and NATO member into unprecedented turmoil following allegations of electoral violations and Russian interference. Sunday’s vote will elect a new government and prime minister and determine the formation of the 466-seat legislature….
Russian President Vladimir Putin is touting a “new world order” as Russia seeks to strengthen its military cooperation with Asian allies such as China and North Korea. CNN’s Fred Pleitgen has the details.
The collapse of the Assad regime has prompted a punishing military response from Israel, which has launched airstrikes at military targets across Syria and deployed ground troops both into and beyond a demilitarized buffer zone for the first time in 50 years. The Israeli military on Tuesday said it had carried out about 480 strikes across…
Well, if there’s one thing our favorite electric vehicle startups have all shared, it’s a penchant for innovation — from luxury hatchbacks with third-row seats and SUVs with “falcon-wing” doors, to trucks with gear tunnels and supercar suspensions, to 500-mile sedans powered by 500-plus-hp motors tiny and light enough to fit in a roll-aboard suitcase….
Google sued the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Friday, challenging the agency’s decision to place Google’s payment division under federal supervision. In a copy of the lawsuit provided by Google, the company said the CFPB’s supervision would be a “burdensome form of regulation” imposed based on a “small number of unsubstantiated user complaints.” The CFPB’s…
Georgian lawmakers voted in a far-right former soccer star as the country’s next president on Saturday, deepening tensions between the pro-Russian government and pro-Western opposition amid mounting popular anger over the former’s decision to halt European Union accession talks. Mikheil Kavelashvili, 53, is a former MP for the ruling Georgian Dream party and played for…
Taco Bell is testing a new restaurant that isn’t focused on tacos. The newly opened concept in San Diego is called the Live Más Café, featuring a beverage-centric menu that includes milkshakes, coffees, fruity iced drinks and a take on a dirty soda trend with its trademark Mountain Dew Baja Blast. The prototype resembles a CosMc’s, the year-old, McDonald’s-owned concept…
The dawn assault inside Russia’s Kursk region never even got to a gunfight, yet betrayed the intensity of the battle in Kremlin territory. Five Russians edged forward in the grey Sunday dawn but, as thermal drone imagery shows, were killed or wounded by a drone as they tried to hide in the treeline. “I have…
Two Russian cargo ships carrying oil products are in distress following bad weather in the Kerch Strait between mainland Russia and annexed Crimea, the country’s ministry of emergency situations said Sunday. A helicopter rescue team has flown to the site of one of the vessels, “Volgoneft 212,” which was damaged after running aground, prompting…