The evidence includes new text messages and phone records from Lev Parnas, a Ukrainian American business partner of Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s personal lawyer. “In my capacity as personal counsel to President Trump and with his knowledge and consent, I request a meeting with you on this upcoming Monday, May 13th or Tuesday May 14th,” Giuliani wrote in the May 10 letter. There cannot be a full and fair trial in the Senate without the documents that President Trump is refusing to provide to Congress,”

Keisha Williams orchestrated a $5.4 million fraud and traveled the world with her investors’ money, according to federal officials. In 2018, Keisha Williams, a 43-year-old Virginia woman, pleaded guilty to multiple criminal charges stemming from a multimillion-dollar scam that saw her bilk dozens of investors out of over $5.4 million for a fake business opportunity. Keisha Williams traveled to Rome and stayed in a five-star hotel. She also bragged to a friend via text message about a trip to Bor

Currently, women make up 50.04% of payroll jobs in the U.S., signaling that women are benefiting more than men from today’s tight labor market. When looking at the growth rate of these industries, construction and manufacturing added 356,000 jobs to the economy between 2018 and 2019. Also, with women outnumbering men at all levels of post-secondary education, many male-dominated industries are now starting to see an increase of women entering the field. “Whenever you have these economic shifts,

Yang’s platform helped get America talking about universal income again, but his plan is expensive. Now a think tank has laid out a universal basic income plan that would pay more than Yang’s and be zero cost to the government. (With Yang’s plan welfare and social program beneficiaries could choose to keep their benefits in lieu of receiving the cash payment, so number of adults receiving it could vary.) Pomerleau found that to work, Yang’s VAT would have to increase to 22 percent and the paymen

The looming market sell-off would be ‘a terrible thing to waste’ for investors, Jim Cramer says”So many companies [are] doing so well. I’d love to buy them, but at this point only on weakness,” “Mad Money” host Jim Cramer said.

Crisfotolux | Getty ImagesMore than 700 years of history show that the times as they are now, at least in regard to interest rates, aren’t quite so different as we’re led to believe, according to research that goes back to the Black Death plague of the 14th century. In fact, the low interest rate climate has been more rule than exception and indicative that even negative interest rates shouldn’t be considered a major aberration, and may stay there — permanently. The work from Paul Schmelzing at

Beyond Meat “Beyond Burger” patties made from plant-based substitutes for meat products sit on a shelf for sale on November 15, 2019 in New York City. Vegetarian alternatives to burgers and sausages, revived by start-ups like Beyond Meat and Impossible Burger, are enjoying a certain enthusiasm that meat giants also want to enjoy. The stock is about 2% for the day and is trading above the target price of every analyst listed in FactSet. Trading of Beyond Meat was briefly halted on Tuesday for vol

A worker pushes Amazon.com Inc. packages in front of a FedEx Corp. delivery truck in New York. The Forum’s analysis suggests that effective double-parking enforcement or allowing the use of express lanes for delivery vehicles could reduce congestion by up to 29% and 18%, respectively. Mandated night time deliveries could have a similar impact, reducing congestion by 15 percent and cutting delivery costs by 28%. Coupled with the rise in everyday e-commerce, companies have ramped up competition ov

The head of Human Rights Watch said Tuesday the Chinese government has not only constructed “an Orwellian high-tech surveillance state” at home but is using its growing economic clout to silence critics abroad. It begins with his keynote essay entitled, “China’s Global Threat to Human Rights.” He indicated that Human Rights Watch is among organizations that support and instigate “anti-China activists … to engage in radical violent crimes, and incite separatist activities hyping Hong Kong indep

PayPal and Square could be this decade’s high flying tech winners, according to Credit Suisse. The firm released its projections for the “next generation of potential winners” in technology, and finance technology companies PayPal and Square top the list. The technology companies need to be reinvesting their cash at “decent rates” and demonstrate earnings growth, Credit Suisse HOLT technology sector specialist John Talbott said in a note to clients on Tuesday. Credit Suisse came up with the crit

Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) Drew Angerer | Getty ImagesA bipartisan group of senators introduced legislation Tuesday that would pump more than $1 billion into developing Western 5G equipment alternatives to China’s Huawei. The U.S. has long held national security concerns and suspicions about Huawei’s ties to the country’s Communist Party leadership. Last year, it placed the company on a blacklist prohibiting U.S. companies from doing business with the firm without a special license. The fund would

Your iPhone has a hidden area that gives you even more control over your AirPods Pro , Apple ‘s new and more expensive AirPods that feature noise cancellation. But, I changed it to “shorter” and now it switches modes after I just do a quick and deliberate hold. You can also change how fast you need to double press or triple press the side of your AirPods Pro to skip a song or move to the previous song, respectively. That might be useful for people who are hard of hearing in one ear and normally

The French online advertising company Criteo’s logo is seen at the Criteo headquarters in Paris on October 3, 2019. Shares of Criteo, a French ad-tech company, hit a 52-week low Tuesday after Google announced it planned to end support for third-party cookies, which fuel much of the digital advertising ecosystem, in its Chrome browser within two years. Criteo shares fell as low as $13.68, its 52-week low, before recovering slightly. But shares in the company have struggled in the last two years a

Amazon is telling sellers they can begin using FedEx’s ground delivery after the company temporarily halted access to the service during the holiday shopping season. Shares of FedEx went up as much as 3% after the news and ended the day up 1.8%. The company will resume FedEx’s Ground and Home services on Tuesday at 5 p.m. An Amazon spokesperson confirmed to CNBC that the company is resuming ground delivery service on Tuesday. The spokesperson said FedEx Ground and Home services have been consist

Analysts have said there could be some volatility around the release of the trade deal details. So stocks were rattled, when Bloomberg news service Tuesday afternoon reported that tariffs were not expected to be lifted until a phase two deal. The deal is expected to stop any further tariffs and roll back some 15% tariffs to 7.5% on some Chinese goods. “The assumption was the tariffs would not come off until there was a phase two deal and Trump said the other day there would be no phase two until

US President Donald Trump (r) and Apple CEO Tim Cook speak to the press during a tour of the Flextronics computer manufacturing facility where Apple’s Mac Pros are assembled in Austin, Texas, on November 20, 2019. In a tweet, President Donald Trump slammed Apple over whether it is providing law enforcement with enough support to unlock password-protected iPhones used by the shooting suspect at a Navy base in Pensacola, Florida in December. “We are helping Apple all of the time on TRADE and so ma

U.S. Supreme Court justices on Tuesday appeared skeptical about the criminal prosecution of two associates of former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie who are appealing their convictions in the “Bridgegate” scandal involving retribution against a local mayor who refused to endorse Christie. Chris Christie, arrives to testify in the Bridgegate trial at the Federal Courthouse in Newark, New Jersey, U.S. October 27, 2016. Circuit Court of Appeals in 2018 upheld the 2016 convictions of Kelly and Ba

SmileDirectClub stock rose 15% on Monday after it announced that it will start selling its teeth-straightening products to dentists and orthodontists. The company’s exclusive partnership with Align Technology expired at the end of 2019, freeing it up to market its clear aligners directly. SmileDirectClub shares were recently trading up 15% at $11.78. Meanwhile, shares of Align fell about 3%, on word that the two companies will now be in direct head-to-head competition. The company will support t

Signage is displayed in the window of a Comcast Corp. Xfinity store in King Of Prussia, Pennsylvania. Comcast said Tuesday it is launching a new accelerator for start-ups that could help it leverage a multibillion dollar market opportunity in sports. Partnering with Boomtown, an accelerator operator based in Colorado, Comcast will select 10 start-ups that identify as best matches for its sports tech categories, which include fantasy and sports betting, esports, and fan/player engagement. In retu

American has taken the 737 Max off its schedules through June 3, more than a full year later than it expected. American Airlines on Tuesday said it is pulling the Boeing 737 Max from its schedules until early June as the date of the troubled plane’s return to service becomes more uncertain and the manufacturer calls for time-consuming simulator training for pilots before they can fly the plane again. Last week, Boeing about-faced on simulator training, saying pilots should undergo that time-cons