Ken Starr, prosecutor in Clinton-Whitewater investigation, dies at 76

Ken Starr, a member of US President Donald Trump’s legal team, exits the US Capitol in Washington, DC on Monday, February 3, 2020. Amanda Andrade Rhoades | Bloomberg | Getty Images Ken Starr, who led the Whitewater investigation into former President Bill Clinton, died Tuesday at the age of 76, his family said in a …

A burning Rachel Maddow blows the lid on Trump’s DOJ corruption

Rachel Maddow used Geoff Berman’s new book to expose how Donald Trump corrupted the Justice Department. Video: Maddow said: “We have this mounting public evidence that when Trump took office, when he was President, when his appointees ran the Justice Department, they really had a DOJ that went wild. They really did everything they could …

Starbucks is unveiling its “reinvention” technique at Tuesday’s investor day

Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz in New York City. Steven Ferdman | Getty Images Starbucks is expected to unveil a reinvention plan Tuesday as the coffee giant grapples with changing consumer behavior, outdated store designs and a union push in the United States The strategy is the brainchild of outgoing interim CEO Howard Schultz, who returned …

US report says corporations are struggling to help voting rights

A handful of large corporations have received poor marks for how they have responded to a variety of voting rights and democracy issues, including the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, according to a new report by a corporate accountability group. Accountable.US, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporate watchdog, publishes its American Democracy Scorecard, which ranks the …

What Foremost Road and Enterprise Want from Congress: CEO of Goldman Sachs

Pavel Toczynski | The image database | Getty Images The US economy is going through one of the most difficult times I’ve seen in my 40-year career. Inflation, labor shortages, supply chain disruptions – all of these are hitting big companies hard and small companies even harder. And so this week at Goldman Sachs’ 10,000 …

Fundraising points plague GOP heading into halftime

What a difference a few months make. In the spring, it looked like the GOP was poised to make huge gains in the House of Representatives and retake the Senate. Now, as inflation worries, particularly gas prices, recede and post-Dobbs Democratic enthusiasm soars, the GOP is – according to the Washington Post – in complete …

Every little thing we realized from Disney’s Parks panel at D23 Expo 2022

A masked family walks past Cinderella Castle in the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. Orlando Sentinel | Tribune News Service | Getty Images Disney’s theme parks are recovering after the coronavirus pandemic closed their domestic and international locations in 2020. Disney’s Parks, Experiences and Products division is growing in …

G-7 tries to recruit nations

Two months after agreeing to review price caps on Russian oil sales, the G-7 countries are still trying to win other countries over to their efforts before starting more detailed discussions about the policy’s details, US and European officials said . “The coalition needs to be broader and that is the diplomatic phase [negotiators] received,” …

The Eight greatest choices to finance small companies

For many small businesses, accessing finance can be a matter of life and death. The stakes are particularly high when you consider that 18.4% of US companies fail within the first year, 49.7% after five years and 65.5% after 10 years, according to a LendingTree analysis of US data Bureau of Labor Statistics. One of …