(Reuters) - Volkswagen investors demanded reforms and questioned executive bonuses after the carmaker admitted to criminal offences in rigging U.S. emissions tests and U.S. prosecutors indicted six current and former managers over the scandal.
‘They laid me on the table and explained that I was to be given general anesthesia...’
President-elect Donald Trump's fiscal policy plans are more a story for 2018-2019 than this year, said St. Louis Fed President James Bullard on Thursday. In an interview on CNBC, Bullard said growth in 2017 is pretty much "baked in the cake." He said he thinks the economy remains in a low interest-rate and slow growth environment that is not going to change by "snapping fingers." Bullard said he still thinks economic conditions will justify only one interest rate this year and the Fed has time to wait and see what develops. Читать дальше...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — The Bangladesh cafe besieged by militants who killed 20 hostages last year has quietly reopened a few blocks away from its old, bloodied site, which remains taped off by investigating police.
President-elect Donald Trump says the director of national intelligence called him about a document alleging Russia has damaging information about him. Clapper said late Wednesday that he had called Trump to say that the intelligence community made no judgment on the credibility of the claims in the document and lamented that it had been made public. A top aide to Donald Trump says he was "very happy" to hear from an intelligence chief that officials have not made any judgment on the reliability... Читать дальше...
The Sports Xchange
MINNEAPOLIS -- Andrew Wiggins scored 28 points and Karl-Anthony Towns posted his ninth straight double-double with 23 points and 18 rebounds as the Minnesota Timberwolves held on to beat the Houston Rockets 119-105 on Wednesday night.
Witnesses saw her shouting for help.
The Congress party on Thursday announced its third list of 23 candidates, including a few former Akali leaders, for the Punjab assembly elections, as suspense over cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu joining the party continued.
MIAMI (AP) — A high-ranking Volkswagen AG executive indicted in the company's U.S. emissions scandal is seeking release on bail over the objections of federal prosecutors.
MIAMI (AP) — A high-ranking Volkswagen AG executive indicted in the company's U.S. emissions scandal is seeking release on bail over the objections of federal prosecutors.
Thirty-nine out of the 63 All Peoples Congress (APC) lawmakers signed the letter which demanded the replacement of Senator Ali Ndume with Ahmed Lawan.
BURLINGTON, Iowa (AP) — Officials are working to return to Iowa two Missouri men suspected of killing a southeast Iowa teenager.
President-elect Donald J. Trump at his news conference at Trump Tower in Manhattan on Wednesday.
Police are investigating.
A dispatch from a wild two days in Congress.
The first day of Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions’s confirmation hearing for attorney general turned the third floor of the Russell Senate Building into a spectacle. Beyond the fireworks going on inside the hearing room, a few hundred reporters, sightseers, and protesters milled around the rotunda outside, shouting, laughing, cheering, and arguing.
But by Wednesday, the second day of Sessions’s hearing, the show had largely moved on. The protesters... Читать дальше...
Olszyna (Poland) (AFP) - US troops and tanks began arriving in Poland Thursday, part of one of the largest deployments of US forces in Europe since the Cold War that will eventually involve more than 3,000 soldiers.
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