After forcing companies to make countless CEO changes in his career, Carl Icahn is about to make one of his own. The activist investor said he is hiring a former General Electric Co. GE, +1.14% executive to be CEO of his firm, which houses both his investment fund and a …
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Michael Cohen, former President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer, said in a newly unsealed court document that he learned about startups in prison, as he pleaded to be released early from home confinement. Cohen — who was convicted in 2018 on charges including campaign-finance violations related to a hush-money scheme …
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Deborah Birx speaks last April in the Oval Office as then-President Donald Trump looks on during a meeting attended by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican and Trump ally. mandel ngan/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images WASHINGTON — Former White House coronavirus coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx is joining the George W. Bush Institute …
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Dear Quentin, I read your column regularly. I never thought that I would reach out to you with my own issues. But I was wrong. I’m hoping you can help on how best to handle this situation. In 2016, I lost my long-term job. The company simply went through serious …
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In his final hours in office, President Donald Trump granted pardons and commuted sentences for 143 people early Wednesday, including a pre-emptive pardon to former White House strategist Steve Bannon. Trump did not pre-emptively pardon himself or his family members. Other prominent recipients of clemency were former Uber and Google …
Read More » WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Monday blacklisted seven men, including several former Ukrainian officials, for allegedly interfering in U.S. elections as agents of Russia’s government by advancing theories about President-elect Joe Biden’s son. The action targeted associates of Andriy Derkach, a Ukrainian lawmaker sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department last September who …
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Carney became the governor of the Bank of Canada in 2008 and is widely credited with successfully steering the country through the financial crisis. Peter Summers/Reuters Mark Carney is taking his first job since leaving the top post at the Bank of England earlier this year, returning to the private …
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Dear Moneyist, I went through a divorce about five years ago and my youngest child will graduate college this spring. I have just gotten my finances stable again and I am back saving money. I have about eight to 10 years left to work, and should have enough saved for …
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The top federal prosecutor in Brooklyn is leaving his post for a job at the U.S. Justice Department in Washington. Richard Donoghue, the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York, told his staff Thursday that he will become the top deputy to Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey A. Rosen. …
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