WASHINGTON — Stormy Daniels’ lawyer said Tuesday he has information showing that Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s longtime personal attorney, received $500,000 from a company associated with a Russian billionaire within months of paying hush money to Daniels, a porn star who claims she had an affair with Trump. Lawyer Michael Avenatti also said hundreds […]
FRANKFURT — Industrial equipment maker Siemens saw profit rise in the first three months of the year as the company booked a one-time gain related to pensions while profits from its factory digitalization business helped offset sagging results from fossil fuel power generation. Net profit rose 39 per cent to 2.02 billion euros ($2.39 billion) […]
SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of — Oil prices surged while Asian stock markets traded mixed on Wednesday after President Donald Trump announced the United States will withdraw from a 2015 nuclear accord with Iran and re-impose sanctions. KEEPING SCORE: Japan’s Nikkei 225 dropped 0.4 per cent to 22,408.88 and South Korea’s Kospi retreated 0.2 per cent […]
NEW YORK — Sam Darnold zipped pass after pass down the field, knowing each one of them counted. Literally. The New York Jets rookie quarterback was at his old stomping grounds of San Clemente High School in California last month, just a few weeks before being the No. 3 overall pick in the NFL draft […]
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TOKYO — Toyota Motor Corp. is reporting its quarterly profit rose 21 per cent as cost cuts and booming sales in some markets offset the damage from higher U.S. incentives. Toyota, which makes the Camry sedan, Prius hybrid and Lexus luxury models, on Wednesday reported a January-March profit of 480.8 billion yen ($4.4 billion), up […]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Patrick Traynor, a cybersecurity expert, was in New York in February working with police to help identify a way to detect credit card skimmers on ATMs when he got a financial fraud alert: his own information had been stolen while he was in town. It wasn’t the first time. In five years […]
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — New Jersey gambling regulators are expected to decide whether to grant a casino license to the new Hard Rock property. The Casino Control Commission is due to rule on Wednesday on Hard Rock’s application for a casino license for the former Trump Taj Mahal, which the company is rebranding into a […]