Thursday Morning Briefing: Release of long-awaited Mueller report is a watershed moment for Trump
Share
April 18, 2019
Reuters News Now
Mueller Report
Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s long-awaited reporton Russia’s role in the 2016 U.S. election will be released today, providing the first public look at the findings of an inquiry that has cast a shadow over Donald Trump’s presidency. Here is a timeline of significant developments in Mueller’s investigation and contacts between Trump’s campaign and Moscow. Here are five things to look for when the report is issued.
Exclusive:A new Trump administration report on international compliance with arms control accords provoked a dispute with U.S. intelligence agencies and some State Department officials, who are concerned that the document politicizes and slants assessments about Iran, five sources with knowledge of the matter said.
T-Mobile US’ $26 billion deal to buy Sprintbanked on changes in wireless technology and media streaming to win U.S. antitrust approval, but the bet now looks precarious. Growing skepticism from the U.S. Department of Justice’s antitrust staff over the impact of the merger on competition in the market will test the resolve of the companies to complete the deal that would see the top U.S. wireless carriers shrink to three from four.
Facebook said it may have “unintentionally uploaded”email contacts of 1.5 million new users since May 2016, in what seems to be the latest privacy-related issue faced by the social media company. “We estimate that up to 1.5 million people’s email contacts may have been uploaded. These contacts were not shared with anyone and we are deleting them,” Facebook told Reuters, adding that users whose contacts were imported will be notified.
Major finance and tech firms are pouring money into startupsbuilding technology to develop the crypto market, even though they’re steering clear of the volatile currencies themselves. Such bets, by companies including London Stock Exchange Group and Microsoft, spiked over five-fold to a record $2.4 billion over 117 investments in 2018. This suggests large companies see promise in the nascent technology, even as it struggles for acceptance.
Indonesian President Joko Widodo appeared on course for a second term, based on unofficial vote counts and despite the objections of his rival, while police vowed firm action against any rallies that could disturb security.
North Korea said it no longer wanted to deal with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and said he should be replaced in talks by someone more mature, hours after it announced its first weapons test since nuclear talks broke down.
At least 29 people, most of them German tourists, were killed and 27 others injured when their bus veered off a steep narrow road on the Portuguese island of Madeira, authorities said.
Women running for India's parliament are barely a blip in the world's biggest democratic exercise https://reut.rs/2XtJdHZ by @Subrat_Patnaik @sachinr27
