Monday Morning Briefing: Manafort's L.A. bankruptcy fight may offer new avenue for Mueller probe
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February 26, 2018
Reuters News Now
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Federal prosecutorsmay have additional leverage against Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, arising from a loan he received while engaged in the bankruptcies of properties in California. Reuters has found new information about Manafort’s handling of the loan and its potential link to the bankruptcies.
A Florida sheriffcame under mounting criticism yesterday for his deputies’ response to this month’s deadly high school shooting and potential warning signs as dozens of state lawmakers called for his removal and the governor ordered an independent inquiry.
Commentary: How to stop social media from supercharging hate speech.Last year, human rights researchers documented an alarming rise in state-sponsored hate speech online, writes Sherif Elsayed-Ali, director of global issues at Amnesty International. “Donald Trump’s retweets of anti-Muslim videos first circulated by an anti-immigrant, far-right British party were just the tip of the iceberg…. In 2017, politicians in many countries deployed social media to spread hate-filled agendas.
South Korean President Moon Jae-insaid the United States and North Korea should both give ground so they can sit down to talks to try to resolve a nuclear standoff, a day after Pyongyang expressed willingness for dialogue.
The drive for cost cuts and higher margins at U.S. trucking and railroad operators is pinching their biggest customers, forcing the likes of General Mills and Hormel Foods to spend more on deliveries and consider raising their own prices as a way to pass along the costs.
Qualcomm urged Broadcom to enter into direct negotiations on a price for merging the two companies and said they had made progress on regulatory and other deal certainty issues at a meeting last week
Samsung unveiled its flagship Galaxy S9 smartphone yesterday with an emphasis on visual applications for social media, hoping to attract tech savvy young consumers to weather a market slowdown. Read more tech news and coverage from the Mobile World Congress here.
Meet those who are dubbed by longtime crypto-investors as “the noobs”– online lingo for “newbies” – they are ordinary investors hopping onto the latest trend, often with little understanding of how cryptocurrencies work or why they exist.
