Two men have been arrested and arraigned for their role in a cybercrime ring that stole nearly 1,000 concert tickets, the majority of which were for Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour, Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz said this week. According to a statement from Katz’s office, the ticket URLs were taken by a pair of StubHub subcontractors working for…
Google is urging officials at President Donald Trump’s Justice Department to back away from a push to break up the search engine company, citing national security concerns, according to people familiar with the discussions. Representatives for the Alphabet Inc. unit asked the government in a meeting last week to take a less aggressive stance as the U.S. looks to end what a…
Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins is sitting out President Donald Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress Tuesday night as the designated survivor. The Associated Press, citing a White House official, reported that Collins is the one government official being kept away in the case there is an attack on the proceeding to ensure someone in the line of presidential succession…
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday against President Donald Trump’s administration’s request to block a lower court judge’s order requiring the administration to pay almost $2 billion to contractors affiliated with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). In a 5-4 ruling on Wednesday, the Supreme Court noted that the United States District Court…
BlackRock Inc. led one of the biggest acquisitions of the year in a deal that marked both the firm’s expanded reach in infrastructure and a win for U.S. President Donald Trump, who had raised concerns over control of key ports near the Panama Canal. The world’s biggest asset manager led a consortium that will buy a controlling stake in Panama ports that…
Saying her life had been cut short by a violent criminal and undocumented immigrant who should have never have been allowed to remain in the country, President Donald Trump spent several minutes during his joint address to Congress Tuesday night honoring the life of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley. Riley’s mother and sister, Allyson and Lauren Phillips, were in the audience seated next…
