A small town in Kansas has become a battleground over the First Amendment, after the local police force and county sheriff’s deputies raided the office of the Marion County Record.Raids […]
Ethics and Official Misconduct
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Back to news homeHey, Alexa, What Should Students Learn About A.I.?
Rohit Prasad, a senior Amazon executive, had an urgent message for ninth and 10th graders at Dearborn STEM Academy, a public school in Boston’s Roxbury neighborhood.He had come to the […]
Fox’s Costs From Defamation Suit Lead to a Quarterly Net Loss
Lachlan Murdoch, the executive chairman of the Fox Corporation, conceded on Tuesday that a Delaware judge’s pretrial rulings against the company “severely limited our defense at trial” and contributed to […]
A Federal Reserve President Spoke at an Invite-Only, Off-Record Bank Client Event
James Bullard, who leads the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, appeared at a Citigroup forum last week in Washington. Reporters were not invited. Read More
Student Loan Subsidies Could Have Dangerous, Unintended Side Effects
The centerpiece of the student debt-relief plan that President Biden announced last month is his decision to cancel up to $20,000 per borrower in federal loans. But the more far-reaching […]
CNN’s Gollust Discussed Interview Topics With Gov. Cuomo, Probe Found
On a Saturday in March 2020, as Covid-19 was invading the United States, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo went on CNN for a live interview. Among other topics, he was asked […]
A Fed Official’s 2020 Trade Drew Outcry. It Went Further Than First Disclosed.
Richard H. Clarida, the departing vice chair of the Federal Reserve, failed to initially disclose the extent of a financial transaction he made in early 2020 as the Fed was […]
Steve Easterbrook, Former McDonald’s C.E.O., Repays Company $105 Million
Mr. Easterbrook initially decided to fight the lawsuit, and his lawyers filed a motion to dismiss, calling it “meritless and misleading.”Updated Dec. 16, 2021, 12:46 p.m. ETBut with his agreement to […]
CNN Fires Chris Cuomo Over Role in Andrew Cuomo’s Scandal
As the gregarious and sometimes combative host of CNN’s 9 p.m. hour, Mr. Cuomo was at the peak of a broadcast journalism career that he had forged outside of his […]
Fed Ethics Office Warned Officials to Curb Unnecessary Trading During Rescue
On March 23 last year, as the Federal Reserve was taking extraordinary steps to shore up financial markets at the onset of the pandemic, the central bank’s ethics office in […]