The Democratic decision to launch an impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump pushed a strained nation to a new political brink, activating for the fourth time in history the US constitution’s most critical fail-safe with no certainty about where it will take the country. After years of circling each other in an increasingly bitter political clash, […]

It took a remarkable number of unlikely occurrences to make Donald Trump president. In Hillary Clinton he had a distinctly unpopular opponent who, like him, divided the electorate along starkly partisan lines. She was undermined by a foreign government that stole and released damaging information on her campaign, as well as a federal investigation that […]

OSLO (Reuters) – Faroese fish farmer Bakkafrost (BAKKA.OL) has agreed to buy a 68.6% stake in rival The Scottish Salmon Company (SSCOM.OL) from Northern Link Ltd and will bid for the remaining shares, Bakkafrost and The Scottish Salmon Company said on Wednesday. The planned transaction, valuing Scottish Salmon at 517 million pounds ($639 million), will […]

OSLO (Reuters) – Faroese fish farmer Bakkafrost (BAKKA.OL) has agreed to buy a 68.6% stake in rival The Scottish Salmon Company (SSCOM.OL) from Northern Link Ltd and will bid for the remaining shares, Bakkafrost and The Scottish Salmon Company said on Wednesday. The planned transaction, valuing Scottish Salmon at 517 million pounds ($639 million), will […]

FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Buyout group KKR (KKR.N) has put Austria-based European Locomotive Leasing (ELL) up for sale, people close to the matter said, as the investor seeks to lock in robust asset valuations ahead of an expected downturn. The private equity firm has asked Credit Agricole (CAGR.PA) to help it find a buyer of the […]

A seemingly innocent beauty product gave one Missouri mother a fright after it exploded through the roof of her 19-year-old’s car. According to Christine Debrecht, her teen daughter left a bottle of Equate dry shampoo in her Honda Civic all day Wednesday. The bottom burst off, sending the aerosol can crashing through her car’s skylight. […]

The original Facebook plan to storm Area 51 was brilliant in its simplicity. More than two million people would run full-tilt at the secretive government facility, dodging bullets in a “Naruto run” posture until they could breach the doors and rescue the aliens supposedly trapped inside. “They can’t stop all of us,” creator Matty Roberts […]

One woman’s kitchen decor is another’s million-dollar painting. A piece of art dating back to the 13th century was discovered hanging above a hot plate in an elderly woman’s kitchen in Compiègne, a commune in northern France. It’s titled The Mocking of Christ, part of a series of paintings by Italian painter Cimabue, also known […]

The Democratic Party has been identified with urban America for nearly a century, and the city vote remains as blue as ever. In 2016, for instance, Hillary Clinton beat Donald Trump in New York City 80 percent to 20 percent. In Chicago, it was 83 percent to 13 percent. In Los Angeles, 72 percent to […]

Donald Trump has discovered that the pillars of this temple we call the American democracy are weak. He’s growing ever more confident that he has the strength to topple them. The phone call Donald Trump is reported to have had with the president of Ukraine in which he demanded that Ukraine investigate Joe Biden’s son […]