While sections of CN Rail tracks have been the site of recent blockades, Mounties emphasized that this incident was "not related in any way to the ongoing protests."
Obama has bypassed Congress to name James M. Cole of Bryan Cave (who works in the Washington office of the prominent St. Louis-based law firm) to the No. 2 position at the Department of Justice.
Cole, appointed Wednesday, will serve as the top deputy to attorney general Eric Holder, a close friend. Before joining Bryan Cave in 1995, Cole worked as a prosecutor in the DOJ's corruption-busting Public Integrity Section.
While at Bryan Cave, Cole's duties included working as a special independent monitor for the troubled insurance giant AIG, a deal that netted his Metropolitan Square employer more than $20 million, according to the Government Accountability Project.
Political analyst Valery Solovei - whose earlier claims about the Russian strongman’s failing health were denied - also said Putin plans to announce his Kremlin exit early in the New Year.
Pawan Passi’s frequent phone contacts and some of Morgan Stanley’s key clients are among a roster of more than a dozen execs at other investment firms & banks whose comms are being scooped up by the DOJ, say people w/ knowledge of the matter
In some cases, authorities are seeking access to online chats, mobile phone texts, emails and messages sent by apps, the people said, asking not to be named discussing the confidential demands.
The list of people whose comms are being sought ranges from execs at prominent Wall Street hedge funds, such as Andrew Liebeskind at Citadel’s Surveyor Capital and Jon Dorfman at Element Capital Management,
The new CIO of the Defense Intelligence Agency, Douglas Cossa, has made it one of his top priorities to modernize the military and intelligence community’s top-secret IT network, the Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communication System.
In a “huge effort … to modernize JWICS w/ support from the Hill, ODNI & Office of the Under SecDef for Intel & I’m excited to share those capability needs we have & discuss w/ industry partners where they can help,” Cossa said at DIA’s DoDIIS Worldwide conference in Phoenix
JWICS has evolved over its 30 yrs of use to become the “top secret network of the entire federal govt,” said Cossa, who’s been CIO since July. The network was created to be a video teleconferencing system but really evolved in the early 1990s with the advent and addition of email
Today the contract between ICANN and the US Department of Commerce National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), to perform the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) functions, has officially expired
This historic moment marks the transition of the coordination and management of the Internet’s unique identifiers to the private-sector, a process that has been committed to and underway since 1998.
For more than 15 years, ICANN has worked in concert with other technical bodies such as IETF, Regional Internet Registries [RIR], top-level domain registries and registrars, and many others.
A battle of the billionaires may be starting at Twitter.
Hedge funder Paul Singer has taken in a stake in the social media company—and now wants to replace Jack Dorsey as Twitter CEO and grab four board seats.
Singer’s been a busy guy lately. Over the past year, he’s built up a $25 billion stake in SoftBank after its WeWork investment decimated its shares and one in AT&T.
Singer founded Elliott Management in 1977
His adversaries have been entire countries, most famously a years-long battle to get Argentina to pay up on its bonds. Singer & the other debtholders largely won that fight. In 2016, Argentina agreed to pay $4.75B, 75% of the face value