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Three Trump nominees and three liberal justices limit a computer-hacking law’s application to individuals who break into computer systems, rather than extend it to authorized users who pull information for personal or impr...
The president signaled in a meeting with Republican Sen. Shelley Moore Capito that he could accept a narrower infrastructure package that didn’t include raising the corporate tax rate.
Kamau Bobb has apologized for a 2007 post saying Jews had an “insatiable appetite for war.”
Morgenstern’s Finest Ice Cream launches a dining experience with a champagne theme.
Investors begin to backpedal as the movie-theater operator cautions potential purchasers of its shares that they might lose money.
Hedge-fund billionaire William Ackman is nearing a record SPAC deal that would value Universal Music at roughly $40 billion, people familiar with the matter said.
A Democratic-led House oversight panel is investigating whether a $700 million coronavirus-relief loan to financially troubled trucking company Yellow Corp. was improperly issued and used.
The move shows the Biden White House’s willingness to continue some of the hard-line China policies started by former President Trump.
The dominant culture has gone mad. Of course lonely people on the internet believe crazy things.
A federal judge ruled that messages between Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes and David Boies’s law firm are admissible at her fraud trial.
The Biden administration is examining cryptocurrency’s role in recent hacks that have disrupted important U.S. industries including healthcare, fuel and food, exploring new ways to track victims’ payouts to foreign ransomw...
Police use a new national-security law to bully a Western tech company to shut down speech abroad.
A solution for social distancing may prove applicable after the pandemic is over.
The parliamentarian nixes Schumer’s plan to evade the filibuster via ‘reconciliation.’
Conceptions of the afterlife are as varied—and as old—as human culture itself. Even among educated secular moderns, heaven persists.
China wants the issue to go away. The U.S. should use all of its tools to keep the pressure on Beijing.
The university offers little explanation for changing a 90-year-old governance policy.