Browsing: July

The United States is continuing to bombard Iran amid an intensifying standoff over the Strait of Hormuz. On Sunday, U.S. Central Command said the U.S. had struck 140 targets in Iran. In retaliation, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said they had targeted U.S. military facilities in Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman and Jordan. The escalating attacks come after…

A federal judge approved the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s settlement with Elon Musk over his delayed disclosure of Twitter stock purchases while questioning whether the regulator treated the billionaire too favorably. Former chief White House ethics lawyer Richard Painter criticized President Donald Trump‘s trading of Dell Technologies Inc. (NYSE:DELL) stock as “egregious.” However, he added that even without the stock trade, publicly praising a specific company…