Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, speaks at a news conference following the EU-China summit at the EU Council headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, on Friday, April 1, 2022. Valeria Mongelli | Bloomberg | Getty Images Top EU officials met Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing on Thursday for their first in-person summit …
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Republican presidential candidate former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley participates in the NewsNation Republican Presidential Primary Debate at the University of Alabama Moody Music Hall on December 6, 2023 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley’s new Wall Street donors closely watched her Republican debate performance …
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Martin Shkreli, former chief executive officer of Turing Pharmaceuticals AG, exits court in New York, US, on Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2023. Yuki Iwamura | Bloomberg | Getty Images Infamous “Pharma Bro” Martin Shkreli violated his prison release conditions to appear on former Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s show on X, a court document showed Wednesday. …
Former Governor from South Carolina and UN ambassador Nikki Haley (L) and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis stand onstage during the fourth Republican presidential primary debate at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, on December 6, 2023. Jim Watson | Afp | Getty Images Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Vivek Ramaswamy both attacked Nikki Haley’s …
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U.S. Coast Guard officials are promising reforms after an internal review sparked by reports of sexual assault and harassment found that “too many” of its members don’t feel safe and trust in leadership is eroding. The wide-ranging 90-day review, released Wednesday, calls for an end to a “permissive environment” that extends to inappropriate jokes and comments, and …
Electricity utility PacifiCorp will pay $299 million to settle a lawsuit brought by 463 individual plaintiffs who were harmed by devastating wildfires in southern Oregon in 2020. The settlement announced Tuesday comes after the utility lost a similar lawsuit in June for wildfires in other parts of the state, The Oregonian reported. The utility has faced several lawsuits from property …
On the most recent episode of Fortune’s Leadership Next podcast, co-hosts Alan Murray and Michal Lev-Ram speak with Ancestry CEO Deb Liu. She is the creator, amongst other things, of the wildly popular Facebook Marketplace, but she says she originally never planned to work in tech or become a CEO. That, of course, has all changed. Her conversation …
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who has a fearsome reputation as a financial watchdog and the brain behind the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, isn’t known for agreeing with big bank CEOs. But on Wednesday, when the Senate banking committee held its annual oversight hearing with the heads of America’s biggest banks, the Massachusetts Democrat found herself on …
As the holiday season approaches and the prospect of the Christmas break looms, it is not uncommon for us to mentally check out and lose momentum in the days leading up to the end of the working year. This phenomenon, often characterised by a decline in productivity, focus, and motivation, can significantly impact your ability …
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Nearly 290,000 women around the world die in childbirth each year, and a third of those who survive develop a long-term health issue after pregnancy. That’s according to the series “Maternal health in the perinatal period and beyond,” published Wednesday in The Lancet Global Health. Some of the most common post-pregnancy conditions, which can last …
