Paul Manafort is forfeiting an estimated $46 million in real estate properties and cash as part of his plea deal with special counsel Robert Mueller. The properties include residences in New York City and the Hamptons. » Read More
Nobel laureate Robert Shiller thinks investors ought to ignore the recent burst in corporate profits and focus on longer-term valuation, which he says carries foreboding news for the stock market.
Hurricane Florence was downgraded to a tropical storm as of 5 p.m. ET Friday, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) said, with maximum sustained winds of 70 mph. The storm claimed at least four lives in North Carolina.
The big gains in home values over the last two years are starting to slow down, but U.S. homeowners are still reaping the rewards. As prices continue to rise, so too does the amount of home equity available for homeowners to tap.
Judge Randolph D. Moss, a federal judge in Washington, D.C., said the Education Department's postponement of relief to defrauded borrowers was unlawful.
With the rise of Donald Trump, who has been described as the "human distillation" of the conspiracy theorists' paranoid worldview, Jones appeared set to finally make it into the mainstream.
"Mueller sees Manafort as a key in that regard, or a final key," said Sol Wisenberg, deputy to Kenneth Starr during the 1990s Whitewater investigation of President Bill Clinton.
Cracker Barrel's crisis operations response team has its emergency planning down to military precision, which is no coincidence considering CEO Sandy Cochran is a former Army captain and its team includes several former soldiers.
If Trump were to pardon Manafort now, the special counsel already knows what Manafort said and can still compel him to testify with a grand jury subpoena, according to former Justice Department official Matt Miller.
Trump has offered support for his former campaign manager throughout Manafort's legal battle with Mueller. Friday's retraction raised questions about whether the goodwill could be short-lived.
President Donald Trump wants tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese goods despite the U.S. attempt to restart talks on trade, Bloomberg reported on Friday.