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Former special counsel Robert Mueller. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) Former special counsel Robert Mueller’s decision not to charge President Trump with obstruction of justice was an “unconscionable” lapse that “let Trump get away with lying,” Norm Eisen, former special counsel for the House Judiciary Committee, said in a Wednesday interview on the Yahoo News podcast “Skullduggery.” Eisen’s sharp comments about Mueller, for whom he said he has always had great respect, came… Source link

Amazon (AMZN) CEO Jeff Bezos, Apple (AAPL) CEO Tim Cook, Facebook (FB) CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and Google parent Alphabet (GOOG, GOOGL) CEO Sundar Pichai sat before the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law on Wednesday to take questions during an at-times acrimonious hearing related to ongoing antitrust investigations into the power the companies wield over competitors and consumers. Much of the hearing saw pointed lines of questioning aimed… Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]The NBA is back…and ready for good trouble  Yahoo Sports Source link

Stock futures were slightly higher Wednesday evening as market participants continued to digest the Federal Reserve’s latest monetary policy statement, which was largely viewed as dovish. Investors looked ahead to the first report on US second-quarter GDP Thursday morning, along with more data on weekly jobless claims and a slew of Big Tech earnings. Market participants are bracing for what is likely to be by far the worst quarterly GDP print on record, with second-quarter GDP expected to… Source link

Major League Baseball has laid down punishments after tempers flared between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Houston Astros on Tuesday night, the first bit of justice from MLB players we’ve seen carried out against the Astros after their cheating scandal rocked baseball this past offseason. Joe Kelly, who threw pitches near the heads of Alex Bregman and Carlos Correa and then taunted Correa, was suspended eight games. Dodgers manager Dave Roberts was suspended one game. Astros manager Dusty… Source link

In the four months between the NHL pausing its season due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the resumption of the campaign this week, the world in no uncertain terms changed. The pandemic forced a new reality upon us, and the economic strife combined with increased awareness globally about how the police target and kill Black people with impunity led to a widespread call for change. It’s perhaps naive to expect the NHL to know better by now, despite establishing its Declaration of Principles and… Source link

We are on the precipice of restarting the 2019-20 NBA season, a monumental undertaking at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex in Orlando’s Walt Disney World during a global pandemic. History will be made inside the league’s so-called “bubble,” which houses 22 teams at three hotels within 15 minutes of the three arenas where the eight remaining regular-season seeding games and the playoffs will be held. It is easy to forget where the league left off in March, considering the… Source link

We are on the precipice of restarting the 2019-20 NBA season, a monumental undertaking at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex in Orlando’s Walt Disney World during a global pandemic. History will be made inside the league’s so-called “bubble,” which houses 22 teams at three hotels within 15 minutes of the three arenas where the eight remaining regular-season seeding games and the playoffs will be held. It is easy to forget where the league left off in March, considering the… Source link

Heather Locklear, sounding sharp and on her game, reminisced about some of her old roles on the Fake Doctors, Real Friends With Zach and Donald podcast. The 58-year-old Melrose Place and Spin City star talked about Scrubs, of course, with co-hosts Zach Braff and Donald Faison, but also some earlier roles, including on T.J. Hooker with “intimating” William Shatner and in The First Wives Club, a movie role she ended up requesting be uncredited due to what she said was an unscripted moment… Source link

Kodak (KODK) — which vaulted back into the spotlight via a multi-million deal with the federal government to make medical ingredients — associates itself more with chemicals than the cameras and photos that made it famous, CEO Jim Continenza told Yahoo Finance on Wednesday. The company’s stock skyrocketed by over 500% intraday, taking Wall Street by surprise after mostly flatlining in recent years. Kodak was once a household name, but the digital revolution that turned smartphones into… Source link