Month: February 2020

Near the end of a debate performance that arguably pulled her presidential campaign back on track, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) made the case to New Hampshire voters that her family’s hardscrabble background would immunize her from the corrosive effect of money in politics. “I can’t stand the big money in politics,” Klobuchar said in an…

(Bloomberg) — Michael Bloomberg entered the Democratic presidential race late and tore up the traditional playbook on the theory that he would emerge as the centrist alternative if Joe Biden faltered and a progressive was surging. So far, that plan is holding up. Biden is down, Bernie Sanders is up and Bloomberg has emerged as…

By Karen Freifeld NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. prosecutors on Thursday accused Huawei of stealing trade secrets and helping Iran track protesters in its latest indictment against the Chinese company, escalating the U.S. battle with the world’s largest telecommunications equipment maker. In the indictment, which supersedes one unsealed last year in federal court in Brooklyn,…

Federal prosecutors have hit Chinese telecom equipment manufacturer Huawei with new charges in a superseding indictment unsealed Thursday, which details the company’s alleged illegal behavior in Iran and North Korea. Prosecutors in Brooklyn, New York, alleged that Huawei set up a shell company in Iran so that the subsidiary could purchase U.S. goods, technology and…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department has added new criminal charges against Chinese tech giant Huawei and several subsidiaries, accusing the company of a brazen scheme to steal trade secrets from competitors in America, federal prosecutors announced Thursday. The new indictment also alleges the company provided surveillance equipment to Iran that enabled the monitoring…

WUHAN, China, Feb. 12, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Kingold Jewelry, Inc. (“Kingold” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ: KGJI), one of China’s leading manufacturers and designers of high quality 24-karat gold jewelry, ornaments and investment-oriented products, today provided an update on the impact of the Coronavirus outbreak on its business and operation. Headquartered in Wuhan, the provincial capital of…

The campaign organizations for House Democrats and Republicans — the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) and National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) — agree on the facts of what happened Wednesday night, Politico reported Friday morning: NRCC staffers walked across the street to the DCCC’s headquarters to stake out some Democratic candidates, saw the blinds open…

The winter cold was biting, the black night illuminated only by flashlight and streetlamp, but still the group gathered at their tiny town square. They were scientists and engineers, local shopkeepers and retired teachers, all determined to keep wind companies out of a nearby forest. The group shuns the word “activist,” but no word better…

Key point: America probably doesn’t have a super powerful, super fast drone (although you never know). If the Pentagon doesn’t have a secret weapon up its sleeve, then who knows those Iranians saw. Iran is the only other country besides the United States to operate arguably history’s most powerful interceptor aircraft, the F-14 Tomcat. And the…

Five inmates broke out of a first-floor window this week to escape from an Ohio correctional facility, Canton police said. One of the four was taken into custody Wednesday. The escape from Stark Regional Community Corrections Center, which is in Louisville just east of Canton, occurred between 8:45 p.m. Monday and 10 a.m. Tuesday, according…