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Month: February 2020

Why the prosecutor sided with the Roger Stone memo that Trump opposed

Prosecutor John Crabb Jr. approached Judge Amy Berman Jackson sheepishly at first. The federal judge in Washington had briefly turned Roger Stone’s hours-long sentencing hearing to focus on the Justice Department leadership’s trampling its career prosecutors the previous week. That shift toward sympathy for Stone, hours after President Donald Trump criticized the prosecutors and supported

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Condé Nast, owner of The New Yorker and other magazines, will stop using NDAs for harassment and discrimination

Condé Nast is stopping its use of non-disclosure agreements related to harassment and discrimination. It also will release people from existing NDAs on a case-by-case basis. The magazine conglomerate, which owns Vogue, Vanity Fair, GQ and The New Yorker, announced the policy change in a memo to staff on Friday. The new policy applies to

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How Victoria’s Secret lost its way

Victoria’s Secret has struggled to keep pace with shifting consumer tastes. Five years ago, Victoria’s Secret produced nearly two-thirds of the revenue for its parent company, which was then worth $28 billion. This week, Victoria’s Secret was taken private in a deal that values the brand at just $1.1 billion. L Brands, Victoria’s Secret’s parent

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Why Nevada could surprise us

Finding a public poll of the Nevada caucuses has been like trying to find a needle in a haystack. There have been just eight polls released publicly over the last three months. Two of those were internal polls. Only five of those have been taken since the primary season began a few weeks ago, and

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El MAS iniciará proceso penal contra vocales del Tribunal Supremo Electoral por inhabilitación de Evo Morales

(CNN Español) — El partido Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) anunció el viernes que iniciará un proceso penal en contra de los vocales del Tribunal Supremo Electoral de Bolivia luego de que el organismo anunciara la inhabilitación de la candidatura del expresidente Evo Morales al Senado del país. En un comunicado, el MAS también convocó a

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