Corporate lawyer faces sentencing in U.S. college admissions scandal
The former co-chairman of the New York corporate law firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher will be sentenced on Thursday for his role in what prosecutors say is the largest college admissions scam uncovered in the United States.
Uber launches app aimed at connecting workers with businesses
Ride-hailing firm Uber Technologies Inc said it launched an app called Uber Works to connect temporary workers looking to work shifts with businesses trying to plug gaps in their rosters.
U.S. diplomat at center of Trump-Ukraine affair to meet with House committee staff
A longtime U.S. diplomat who served as President Donald Trump’s special envoy for Ukraine will tell his story to congressional committee staff on Thursday as part of a Democratic-led impeachment probe of the Republican president.
Trump to unveil order aiming to boost Medicare health program, woo seniors
U.S. President Donald Trump will unveil an executive order on Thursday aimed at strengthening the Medicare health program for seniors, seeking to improve its fiscal position and offer more affordable plan options, administration officials said.
Walmart to test programs for U.S. workers to cut its healthcare costs
Walmart Inc said on Thursday it will begin several healthcare pilot programs for its U.S. employees starting Jan. 1 as it looks for ways to cut healthcare costs – one of the largest expenses for the retailer after wages.
Worker dies after fall at BP Whiting, Indiana refinery: source
A contract worker died after falling from a scaffold at BP Plc’s 430,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) Whiting, Indiana, refinery on Wednesday, a source familiar with the accident said.
U.S. committee seeks to interview Boeing engineer on safety of 737 MAX
A U.S. panel has asked Boeing Co to make an engineer available for an interview after reports that the worker filed an internal ethics complaint on 737 MAX’s safety and that the planemaker convinced the regulator to relax safety standards.
Biden to Trump: ‘You’re not going to destroy me’
Hours after U.S. President Donald Trump described him as “stone-cold crooked,” Joe Biden, a leading Democratic contender in the 2020 race for the White House, vowed on Wednesday the Republican president is “not going to destroy me.”
Vintage B-17 bomber makes fiery fatal landing in Connecticut, seven killed
A World War Two-era B-17 bomber trying to make an emergency landing at an airport near Hartford, Connecticut, crashed and burned on Wednesday, killing seven people on board and closing the airport for several hours, authorities said.
Temperamental Trump blows his top over impeachment inquiry
President Donald Trump is mad as hell.
