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President-elect Donald Trump threatened to impose a “big border tax” on General Motors in a tweet on Jan. 3. (Reuters) Ford chief executive Mark Fields said Tuesday the automaker was ditching its plans to open a factory in Mexico and instead expanding a Michigan plant, creating 700 more local jobs. The next wave of workers…
Dan Coats Expected to Be Named Intelligence Director close story-meta-footer close story-meta Retired Senator Dan Coats of Indiana is expected to be named director of national intelligence. ■ Trump Toyota tweet has Republicans and allies divided over import tariffs. ■ Anti-Trump lawyers have one more Hail Mary to stop a President Donald J. Trump. Continue reading…
Law schools’ classes of 2016 provided pro bono services worth $52.2 million through clinics, experiential courses and other student activities, according to a survey released Wednesday by the Association of American Law Schools. The AALS survey conducted in November found 80 law schools reported that 17,899 law students in the Class of 2016 contributed more…
The move would break a key campaign promise when Trump repeatedly said he would force Mexico to pay for the construction of the wall along the border, though in October, Trump suggested for the first time that Mexico would reimburse the US for the cost of the wall. The Trump team argues it will have…
After the U.S. government published a report on Russia’s cyber attacks against the U.S. election system, and included a list of computers that were allegedly used by Russian hackers, I became curious if any of these hackers had visited my personal blog. The U.S. report, which boasted of including “technical details regarding the tools and…
A man who some believe to be a pretty terrible human being is scheduled to become our next President in less than three weeks. I won’t make yet another rundown of all of the awful things he has said and done. I’ve done that a dozen times. Pretty much every reputable news outlet in the…
On Wednesday, Medium co-founder Evan Williams announced in a blog post that the publishing platform would abandon its strategy to sell native advertising against premium publishers’ content and instead work on finding a new business model for online publishing. “We had started scaling up the teams to sell and support products that were, at best,…
The lesson of Trump’s victory is not that data is dead. The lesson is that data is flawed. It has always been flawed—and always will be. Before Donald Trump won the presidency on Tuesday night, everyone from Nate Silver to The New York Times to CNN predicted a Trump loss—and by sizable margins. “The tools…
</p> <p> Founder Sophia Amoruso will also resign as executive chairwoman of the online clothing retailer. According to sources close to the situation, Nasty Gal is preparing to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, allowing it to reorganize its business. In addition, said sources, founder Sophia Amoruso is resigning as executive chairwoman. The hip online…
With those simple words, Hillary Clinton, who thought she would wake up Wednesday as the first woman president-elect but crashed to a stunning election defeat to Donald Trump, ended her White House quest and likely her political career. The Democratic nominee unequivocally conceded the presidential race, and said that the Constitution requires a peaceful transfer…