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Jeff Bezos is looking to put his $84.9 billion to good use. Request for ideas… pic.twitter.com/j6D68mhseL — Jeff Bezos (@JeffBezos) June 15, 2017 The polymath owner of the Washington Post and CEO of Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Blue Origin tweeted Thursday a request for...

Republicans in Congress promised to repeal the Affordable Care Act on the first day of a new GOP administration. Five months later, the overhaul remains stalled, just one part of an agenda paralyzed by the probe into President Donald Trump’s dealings with Russia. The U.S. Senate is working on...

Embattled Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the first U.S. senator to endorse President Donald Trump’s candidacy, finds himself swept up in virtually every issue that has confounded the administration’s efforts to advance any sort of an agenda. Front and center is his role in whether the...

President Donald Trump disclosed highly sensitive intelligence regarding ISIS during his meeting with the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Russian Ambassador to the U.S. Sergey Kislyak, according to reports from the Washington Post and multiple other outlets. It's the latest in a...

Somewhere beyond the cacophony over President Donald Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey is a steady, behind-the-scenes hum about healthcare, which won’t stay yesterday’s news for very long. Analysts at Height Securities, LLC say the U.S. Senate has to deal with healthcare...

The bipartisan budget bill aimed at averting a government shutdown not only ignores key parts of President Donald Trump’s plan to slash immigration, it also potentially doubles the number of migrant workers allowed in the country under a certain type of seasonal visa. "If Trump signs the...

President Donald Trump seemed to waver last week on a couple of key official economic positions. Nonetheless, he maintained optimism that any remaining campaign promises will materialize. One by one we are keeping our promises - on the border, on energy, on jobs, on regulations. Big changes are...

U.S. regulators regard Herbalife Ltd. (NYSE: HLF) as a “multi-level marketing scheme,” but Bill Ackman is beyond euphemisms. To Ackman’s Pershing Square Holdings Ltd, the global nutrition company is a “pyramid scheme.” And he’s so incensed by Herbalife’s...

The man who wouldn’t leave the plane just won’t go away. Shares of United Continental Holdings Inc (NYSE: UAL) were down more than 4 percent in early trading on Tuesday as outrage spread over the violent removal of a man identified as David Dao, a doctor, from a United jet preparing to...

Donald Trump is by far the wealthiest U.S. president in history, but it hasn’t stopped him and his family from running up Secret Service costs on taxpayers. Protecting the president’s sons and daughters around the clock has always been part of the job description for the Secret Service...

The Coca-Cola Co (NYSE: KO) and PepsiCo, Inc. (NYSE: PEP) are being pushed to the back by some unsavory developments in their international operations. In its fourth-quarter earnings call, Pepsi sounded out a word of caution on the global macroeconomic conditions. Rival Coca-Cola said it sees...

Wal-Mart Stores Inc (NYSE: WMT) has been hit with a lawsuit, alleging the company of selling “fake craft beers” in order to trick customers into paying more. Trouble Brewing: Figuratively, And Literally The retail giant jumped on the craft beer craze after introducing its own line of...

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced Thursday it plans to create 100,000 new jobs in the next 18 months. Despite no indication from Amazon that the decision had anything to do with his proposed policies, President-elect Donald Trump has taken credit for the announcement. “The...

The 2016 U.S. presidential election has had a major impact on Americans in a number of ways. Oxford Dictionaries just selected “post-truth” as the 2016 word of the year. According to Oxford, campaign rhetoric associated with the U.S. election was the primary driver of the selection. '...

Tyson Foods, Inc. (NYSE: TSN) shares are plummeting 13.8 percent on Monday following disappointing Q4 earnings guidance from the company and the surprise departure of CEO Donnie Smith. The downward revision to guidance is particularly surprising considering that Tyson had previously raised its 2016...