The head of the federal consumer protection agency was fired Wednesday, weeks after his daughter got inspectors to briefly shut down a restaurant that refused her the table she wanted. Four officials from ... Read more
SEOUL, South Korea — President Park Geun-hye of South Korea has fired her spokesman for committing an “unsavory” act while he was traveling with her on her state visit to Washington, her ... Read more
WASHINGTON — Robert S. Mueller III was awakened at home close to 1:30 a.m. on April 19 as one suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing was in cardiac arrest and the other was on the run. By 3 ... Read more
WASHINGTON — The Air Force removed 17 officers assigned to standing watch over nuclear-tipped Minuteman missiles after finding safety violations, potential violations in protecting codes and basic ... Read more
Amid a surge in violent crime, the Oakland police chief, Howard A. Jordan, resigned Wednesday, citing unspecified medical reasons. For years, the city’s beleaguered Police Department has suffered ... Read more
Michael Meneses did not seem like the type of guy who would end up in federal court, pleading not guilty to charges of computer hacking. For years he commuted from his home in Smithtown, N.Y., on ... Read more
PARIS — Rolls-Royce, the British engineering group, on Thursday announced the surprise resignation of Mark King as chief of its aerospace business, barely four months after the 27-year company veteran had ... Read more
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Yahoo’s chairman, Alfred J. Amoroso, will become the eighth Yahoo director to depart since early last year. He will leave the board on June 25 at Yahoo’s annual ... Read more
Mary Sue Coleman, the president of the University of Michigan since 2002, announced Thursday that she would retire in July 2014, when her contract expires. Dr. Coleman, 69, a biochemist, has been a ... Read more
Saying it was frustrated with some of the worst criminal violence in the world, the Honduran congress suspended the attorney general and his assistant and replaced them with a temporary oversight ... Read more