A top European Union court said Wednesday that McDonald’s has lost its Big Mac trademark in the 27-nation bloc, ruling in favor of Irish fast food rival Supermac’s in a longrunning legal battle. The EU General Court said in its judgement that the U.S. fast food giant failed to prove that it was genuinely using […]Read More
Walmart on Wednesday saidit will offer new training programs and certifications to fill high-demand roles across its business, such as HVAC technicians, opticians and software engineers. The big-box retailer said it will also offer another reason for hourly store workers to stick around: a bonus of up to $1,000 per year. Walmart, the nation’s largest private […]Read More
Dollar Tree announced Wednesday it is considering a sale of its more grocery-focused Family Dollar brand. The company had recently shared plans to close almost 1,000 Family Dollar stores in an attempt to revamp the struggling business. The discounter closed more than 500 locations during its fiscal first quarter, it said Wednesday. “We are already beginning to see […]Read More
General Motors CEO Mary Barra says the storied automaker’s plan to turn its fleet 100% electric will now play out ‘over decades.’ In an exclusive interview with NBC News, Barra clarified the company’s previously stated intention to eventually phase out gas-powered cars. ‘I wouldn’t say we’re recommitting,’ Barra said of the company’s pledge, first announced […]Read More
Before the 2016 election, Marco Rubio warned about it. Ted Cruz warned about it. Nikki Haley warned about it. Rick Perry even previewed it in an eerily prescient way. All of these prominent Republicans linked Donald Trump’s rhetoric to the potential for political violence. Then we saw such violence on Jan. 6, 2021. Despite the […]Read More
One big question remains in convicted former president Donald Trump’s Manhattan criminal trial: What is the sentence, and could he go to prison? We’ll find out July 11. Polls conducted since Thursday’s verdict reinforce how politically pivotal the answer could be in the 2024 election. But Americans have nuanced views on the subject that suggest […]Read More
I was sitting at dinner with my editor in early 2022 when filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza challenged me to a debate. I had written an article assessing claims from the right-wing group True the Vote alleging that millions of ballots had been collected during the 2020 presidential election and dropped into ballot boxes — an effort […]Read More
Donald Trump had much more success persuading his peers outside his Manhattan courtroom than the 12 jurors within it. From the moment he was indicted in New York last year — and before it, really — Trump framed the effort as inherently political and, by extension, inherently invalid. Last week, the jurors offered their disagreement: […]Read More
Early in her career, Arati Prabhakar led the development of a self-piloting ship for a secretive U.S. military research agency. Now she’s the White House’s top technology official — the first to hail from a defense background since the Cold War and a representative of Washington’s new hard-line consensus on China. For three decades, the […]Read More
“You have places like Wisconsin with over 500 illegal drop box locations … you have places like Georgia where liberal groups were paying people $10 per vote. … Look at what happened in Arizona, 200,000 ballots, that the signatures didn’t match.” — Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), in remarks on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” May 19 […]Read More