Politics

Joe Biden, the former vice president who once mused about beating up then-candidate Donald Trump last year, shook his fist at hedge fund trader Bill Ackman and may have even threatened to punch him out during a testy exchange at a ritzy dinner in Las Vegas, reports say. A verbal skirmish took place...

Rocket ships, brain chips, music streaming, autonomous driving, solar power, underground roads with elevators — it might be easier to list all the stuff that doesn’t capture Elon Musk’s active imagination. Best known as a car mogul, the founder and CEO of Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA)...

The state of Michigan is suing Flint — the city where the drinking water was poisoned with lead after a botched switch to the Flint River as its water supply — due to its lack of a long-term water source. The city missed a deadline Monday to secure a long-term water source, something...

And the battle rages on. Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin inflamed the ongoing conflict between the media and an unofficial alliance of readers and politicians by filing a defamation lawsuit against the New York Times Co (NYSE: NYT) Tuesday. Palin claimed the newspaper knowingly published a false...

President Donald Trump proved he’s still got the magic touch. With fewer than 140 characters, Trump pushed Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN)'s stock lower Wednesday in pre-market trading. “The #AmazonWashingtonPost, sometimes referred to as the guardian of Amazon not paying internet taxes...

Toshiba Corp. has sued California-based Western Digital Corp (NASDAQ: WDC) for $1 billion for purportedly interfering with the struggling Japanese company’s plans to sell off its lucrative flash memory unit. Toshiba, teetering on the brink of death after an ill-fated foray into nuclear power...

Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) on Tuesday published an explanation of its policy on “hate speech” that, if anything, shows just how hard it is for the company to accurately police a problem that goes far beyond social media. It’s the company’s latest attempt to fend off criticism...

Oppenheimer Asset Management's John Stoltzfus was bullish on the S&P 500's prospects heading into 2017 and estimated the index would close the year at 2,450. Now that the index has already breached his end of year target is he calling for further upside or merely expecting the market to trade...

Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, on Tuesday delayed a vote on a bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act after defections and opposition from moderates and conservatives appeared to doom the Republican majority leader’s plan. The earliest the Senate could consider voting on the legislation is...

Ransomware cyberattacks broke out Tuesday from the United States to India to Russia, where computer systems monitoring radiation at the site of the former Chernobyl nuclear plant were knocked offline. The attacks affected roughly 150 countries, including government offices and infrastructure in the...

Here we are again, again. We've been watching that 2,440 line on the S&P all month long for signs of an upside breakout and, while the Nasdaq is still making record highs, the much more reliable S&P 500 seems reluctant to go higher.  Earnings season is just around the corner but a...

Susquehanna analyst Don Carson downgraded Monsanto Company (NYSE: MON) from Positive to Neutral, while raising its price target from $125 to $128. The downgrade is not a result of increasing headwinds or poor performance, but rather because the 9-percent upside from Bayer AG (ADR) (OTC: BAYRY)'s $...

The Congressional Budget Office said Monday that the latest health care bill struck in secret by a select group of U.S. senators would chop 22 million people off the health-insurance rolls by 2026, another nail in the coffin of legislation backed by a dwindling number of GOP lawmakers. Moderates...

Take the ethnic breakdown of a country and filter it through politics and economics and historical context. Factor in trend analyses built from social media and mainstream reporting. Do the math. What do you get? A model that predicts a society’s chances of, say, a shooting war with Russia or...

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to rule on the controversial travel ban imposed on mostly Muslim countries by President Donald Trump. The high court, in a 16-page opinion issued on the last day before breaking for a summer recess, said it will take up the issue in October. The executive order had...