The Federal Trade Commission in a new lawsuit accuses the largest U.S. distributor of wine and spirits of illegal price discrimination that gave large chains — among them Costco, Kroger and Total Wine & More — much better prices than those offered to small “mom and pop” businesses such as independent liquor stores. The distributor,
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Unidentified drone in New Jersey. Source: MSNBC The FBI and Department of Homeland Security said Thursday that they had seen “no evidence” that mysterious drone sightings over New Jersey and adjacent areas in recent weeks “pose a national security or public safety threat.” The agencies also said they had no evidence of a “foreign nexus”
Former Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba warned of the potential repercussions for the European Union if Ukraine does not prevail in its fight against Russia, telling CNBC that “if Ukraine fails, war will come to the streets of European cities.” “Putin today has no strengths and powers to fight multiple wars,” Kuleba said, pointing to
A screens shows footage of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol delivering an address to the nation at Seoul station on Dec. 7, 2024 in Seoul, South Korea. Chung Sung-jun | Getty Images News | Getty Images South Korea’s President Yoon Suk Yeol was impeached on Saturday in a vote triggered after his fleeting failed
The McKinsey & Company logo is displayed at the 54th International Paris Airshow at Le Bourget Airport near Paris, France, on June 21, 2023. Benoit Tessier | Reuters McKinsey & Company agreed to pay $650 million in a deferred prosecution agreement that will resolve a federal criminal probe into the company’s consulting work advising Purdue
Sunday December 8th the world was hit with a massive surprise. The government of Syria had fallen. Syria’s dictator for life, Bashar al-Assad, had fled to Moscow. In a mere eleven days, rebels had swept through the cities of Aleppo and Hama and had taken Syria’s capital, Damascus. Syria had been in the hands of dictators from
The first General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcons received by Ukraine fly on the Day of Ukrainian Air Force on August 4, 2024 in Unspecified, Ukraine. At the event for the Day of Ukrainian Air Force with the participation of President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi, the first General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcons received by Ukraine were
DPRK IT workers FBI wanted poster. Source: FBI The Department of Justice accused 14 North Korean nationals of conspiring to use false identities to get IT jobs with U.S. companies and siphon money back to their home country in violation of U.S. sanctions. The indictment, filed Wednesday in Missouri federal court, alleged that the conspiracy
A notebook found with Luigi Mangione contains a description of killing a CEO that matches details of his alleged murder of UnitedHealthcare‘s CEO in New York last week, NBC News reported Wednesday. “What do you do?” a section of the notebook says. “You wack the CEO at the annual parasitic bean-counter convention,” the notebook says.
FBI Director Christopher Wray walks into a secure information area ahead of a closed-door security meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington on Sept. 25, 2024. Tom Brenner | The Washington Post | Getty Images Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Christopher Wray announced Wednesday that he will resign by the end of the Biden administration next
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell speaks during a news conference following a Federal Open Market Committee meeting in Washington on Nov. 7, 2024. Kent Nishimura | Getty Images Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell can finish his term leading the U.S. central bank despite prior insinuations that he could be pushed to step down, said Scott
An agitated Luigi Mangione yelled at reporters outside a Pennsylvania courthouse before a hearing on his possible extradition to New York to face a murder charge in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. “It’s completely out of touch and is an insult to the intelligence of the American people and their lived experience!” Mangione
Aerial view of brine ponds and processing areas of the lithium mine of the Chilean company SQM (Sociedad Quimica Minera) in the Atacama Desert, Calama, Chile, on September 12, 2022. Martin Bernetti | Afp | Getty Images The strategic importance of lithium is likely to have played a major role in the European Union’s blockbuster
A 26-year-old man has been identified as a “strong person of interest” and is being questioned by police in Pennsylvania on Monday in connection with the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, authorities said. The man, Luigi Mangione, was found with a gun that is similar to the one used by a masked gunman
TOPSHOT – Fighters fire towards Syrian Army troops in the Rashidin district on the outskirts of Aleppo on Nov. 29, 2024. Bakr Alkasem | Afp | Getty Images The more than 50-year Assad dynastic dictatorship was on the cusp of collapse on Sunday, as rebel forces seized the capital of Damascus in a lightning offensive
U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks from the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, U.S., November 26, 2024. Nathan Howard | Reuters President Joe Biden cheered the toppling of Syria’s dictatorship in remarks on Sunday, but he warned about the uncertainty during the country’s political transition. “It’s a moment of historic opportunity for
Igor Golovnov | Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images The killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson led Centene, another big health insurer, to switch to a virtual investor day next week instead of a planned in-person event in New York. Thompson’s slaying also has spurred some major health companies, including UnitedHealthcare’s parent company,
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA – NOVEMBER 07: South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol attends a press conference on state affairs at the presidential office on Nov. 7, 2024. Pool | Getty Images News | Getty Images Beleaguered South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol on Saturday survived an impeachment motion triggered by his short-lived failed attempt to impose