Amazon founder Jeff Bezos said on Wednesday at the NYTimes DealBook Summit that he’s “actually very optimistic this time around” about President-elect Donald Trump’s upcoming second term in office. “He [Trump] seems to have a lot of energy around reducing regulation,” Bezos said, adding, “If I can help him do that, I’m going to help…
President-elect Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he intends to nominate cryptocurrency advocate Paul Atkins to chair the Securities and Exchange Commission. Trump said Atkins, the CEO of Patomak Partners and a former SEC commissioner, was a “proven leader for common sense regulations.” In the years since leaving the SEC, Atkins has made the case against…
Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s embattled pick for secretary of defense, received a six-figure severance payment and signed a non-disclosure agreement when he exited the organization Concerned Veterans of America. The payment came amid allegations of financial mismanagement, repeated incidents of intoxication and sexual impropriety, as well as dissension among its leaders over Hegseth’s foreign…
Though Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg may not have a department to lead like Elon Musk, he’s reportedly still interested in helping shape the Trump administration’s new tech policies. Zuckerberg “is very keen to play an active role in the debates that any administration needs to have about maintaining America’s leadership in the technological sphere,” said…
Chase Strangio, an attorney with the American civil liberties union (ACLU), is set to make history this week as the first known transgender lawyer to argue before the US Supreme Court, with just a 15-minute argument.Strangio, 42, will present his case in United States v Skrmetti, a high-profile dispute over Tennessee’s controversial ban on gender-affirming…
Indian-American lawyer Kash Patel, selected by US President-elect Donald Trump to lead the federal bureau of investigation (FBI), was recently informed by the bureau that he was the target of an Iranian hacking operation, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. Hackers likely gained access to some of Patel’s communications.Alex Pfeiffer, Trump’s transition spokesman, declined…
Kash Patel, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the FBI, was recently notified that he was the target of a potential Iran-backed cyberattack, two people familiar with the matter confirmed to CBS News. The apparent hackers targeted his communications, but whether they succeeded and how much access they had to the data is still being…
Ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah on shaky ground – CBS News Watch CBS News Last week’s truce between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon gave renewed impetus to negotiations for a Gaza ceasefire. But in Lebanon, people had not even had time to bury those killed in the past two months before the ceasefire started looking…
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says she wants to see a unified approach to U.S. president-elect Donald Trump’s economic threats toward Canada, but that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau “hasn’t made it easy” — and that Alberta is prepared to secure its own interests in Washington. Speaking to Mercedes Stephenson in an interview that aired Sunday on The West…
Foreign investors pulled out Rs 21,612 crore ($2.56 billion) from Indian equity markets in November, primarily due to rising US bond yields, a stronger dollar and anticipated domestic economic slowdown.The outflow, whilst significant, was considerably lower than October’s substantial withdrawal of Rs 94,017 crore ( $ 11.2 billion).With the latest withdrawal, Foreign Portfolio Investors (FPIs)…
