Gen Lloyd Austin gives his opening statement before the US Senate Armed Services Committee during his confirmation hearing for the post of Secretary of Defence. — Photo courtesy: PBS News Hour The Biden administration sees Pakistan as an “essential partner” in any peace process in Afghanistan and believes that “continuing to build relationships with Pakistan’s […]
I read with interest the two letters to the editor from Messrs. Martyniuk (January 29) and Mirchuk (January 15) and the two responding letters from Messrs. Lomacky and Vitvitsky challenging their accuracy (“spouting nonsense”), and seeking an apology for “provocative allegations against our president” and “spreading false information.” Apparently, their dispute centered on blame for […]
President Biden called on 10 reporters to answer 30-some questions during his long-awaited first formal press conference on Thursday. But the hour-plus event was a disgrace for some in the press and a dubious performance by the president. The questions for the president were meek and vague, failing to extract any specific information about policies or solutions to the […]
Maybe investment-bank culture needs to change. Bankers’ Hours Working at a law firm for a few years convinced me to avoid a career in law because all the lawyers I met seemed miserable. Then I worked at an investment bank. Turns out divorce lawyers are the singing, dancing Lollipop Guild compared to junior bankers. That was […]
Figure makes digital payments firm the most valuable private business to come out of US tech hub The digital payments firm Stripe has been valued at $95bn (£68m) after a funding round that makes the company the most valuable private business to come out of Silicon Valley. The company, which is dual-headquartered in San Francisco and Dublin, raised […]
A Russian man in the US has pleaded guilty to plotting to extort money from the electric car company Tesla. Egor Igorevich Kriuchkov is accused of offering an employee $1m (£721,000) to place ransomware in the computer network of the company’s battery plant in Nevada. He planned to use the ransomware to steal company secrets […]
The Budapest Memorandum guaranteed Ukraine’s security in exchange for its nuclear weapons. Out of the four signatories, only Ukraine has kept its pledges. Even in the face of overt hostility, aggression, and invasion of Crimea by Russia, not one of the other three signatories has come even close to fulfilling its explicit and implied guarantees […]
Joe Biden will be sworn in as the 46th president of the United States on Wednesday in a ceremony that will be unlike any inauguration before. No crowds will fill the National Mall. There will be no large post-ceremony celebrations. And the outgoing president won’t be in attendance, something that throughout history was a symbolic showing […]
Fictional presidents are worth considering, as they show what the imagination of the position is. Here are some of the best fictional leaders in film. To be a president is one of the most important jobs in the world. The position comes with a ton of pressure, power, and responsibility. Not only does a president […]
The FBI is screening all 25,000 National Guard troops heading to D.C. as fears mount among defense officials that those responsible for security at the inauguration could participate in an insider attack, The Associated Press reported Sunday. The screening effort comes as D.C. has beefed its security ahead of President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration on Wednesday and after the […]