Elon Musk said on Friday he is re-hiring a staff member at the Department of Government Efficiency who resigned a day earlier after he was linked to social media posts that espoused racism.

Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich was convicted on Friday of espionage charges in an unusually rapid trial in the country’s highly politicized legal system.

The new chair of Hong Kong’s leading media professional group says she lost her job at The Wall Street Journal after she refused her supervisor’s request to withdraw from the election for the leadership post.

President Joe Biden says the U.S. is working every day to secure the release of a Wall Street Journal reporter detained in Russia.

Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich marks a year behind bars on Friday following his arrest by Russian authorities who accuse him of espionage but have offered no supporting evidence.

A lawyer for The Wall Street Journal says Russia must face consequences for its detention of Evan Gershkovich, one of the newspaper's reporters.

Arab American leaders are calling on The Wall Street Journal to retract the controversial opinion piece about Dearborn.

A newly unsealed legal complaint claims Facebook parent Meta Platforms deliberately engineered its social platforms to hook kids.

Billionaire investor turned philanthropist George Soros is ceding control of his $25 billion empire to a younger son, Alexander Soros, according to an exclusive interview with the Wall Street Journal published online Sunday.

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Russia’s Foreign Ministry has denied a U.

Lawyers representing an American reporter who was arrested in Russia on spying charges have met with him in a Moscow prison for the first time since his detention.

Working as a journalist in Moscow seemed a natural fit for Evan Gershkovich, the son of immigrants from the Soviet Union who grew up speaking Russian at home in Princeton, N.

The U.S. Justice Department is investigating the Abbott Laboratories infant formula plant in Michigan that was shut down for months last year due to contamination, the company confirmed.

Belle Isle’s Giant Slide re-opened amid worldwide attention, and you can expect heading into one of the last big summer weekends that it will be packed.

Best Buy, the nation’s largest consumer electronics chain, is trimming jobs in an effort to adjust to new changes in consumer behavior as the virus wanes.

China’s government has rejected as a “political lie” a report by The Wall Street Journal that Beijing tried to recruit informants in the Federal Reserve system to obtain U.S. economic data.

The Wall Street Journal's publisher, News Corp., says it has been hacked, with data stolen from journalists and other employees.

General Motors lost the crown as the top-selling automaker in the U.S. as sales dropped 13% in 2021, down to 2.2 million cars sold, allowing Toyota to take the top spot as it sold 2.3 million last year.

Bowing — if only for a moment — to pressure from lawmakers, critics, the media and child development experts, Facebook said Monday it will “pause" its work on a kids' version of its photo-oriented Instagram app.

Facebook's semi-independent oversight board says it will review the company's “XCheck," or cross check system following an investigation by The Wall Street Journal into the use of an internal system that has exempted high-profile users from some or all of its rules.

Didi Global Inc. has denied a report by The Wall Street Journal that the ride-hailing service was considering buying back its U.S.-traded shares after its June market debut was disrupted by Chinese government orders to overhaul data security.

Several news organizations, including The Associated Press, USA Today, CNBC and The Washington Post, had reported the original press release as real news, some after being assured specifically that it was no joke. It was a similar story at USA Today, where a reporter specifically asked if it was a joke and was told “no,” said the newspaper's spokeswoman, Chrissy Terrell. “We are disheartened that the company would choose this type of disingenuous marketing.”The USA Today reporter who was initially lied to was more blunt. “About that plan to change Volkswagen of America's name.” wrote USA Today's Mike Snider. AdGlover said the company landed millions of dollars in publicity from a press release.

Visa is under investigation by the Department of Justice's antitrust division over whether the company pushes merchants into more expensive forms of debit card payments, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday, March 19, 2021. The investigation is focused on how merchants route debit card transactions when a consumer makes an online transaction, according to the Journal, which cited anonymous sources. The investigation is focused on how merchants route debit card transactions when a consumer makes an online transaction, according to the Journal, which cited anonymous sources. However debit card fees are strictly regulated after Congress passed the Dodd Frank Act following the 2008 financial crisis, in what's known as the Durbin amendment. AdMerchants are supposed to be given the option to run debit card transactions on lower-cost networks instead of running it on Visa's or Mastercard's network.

In this image taken from video from the Office of the NY Governor, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaks during a news conference, Wednesday, March 3, 2021, in Albany, N.Y. (Office of the NY Governor via AP)NEW YORK – Another woman who worked for Gov. Andrew Cuomo is describing conduct she felt was inappropriate for the workplace. Liss told the Journal she initially thought of Cuomo’s behavior as harmless, but it grew to bother her. Cuomo’s workplace conduct has been under intense scrutiny in recent days as several women have publicly told of feeling sexually harassed, or at least made to feel demeaned and uncomfortable by the Democrat.

About a third of the state's nursing home fatalities were excluded from the report as a result of the change. Impeach,” tweeted Queens Assembly member Ron Kim, who said Cuomo bullied him for criticizing how Cuomo withheld nursing home data. AdState officials acknowledged even then that the true number of deaths was higher because the report was excluding patients who died in hospitals. State officials insisted Thursday that the edits were made because of concerns about accuracy. The administration initially released data about how many nursing home residents died at both hospitals and nursing homes, but quietly stopped in early May.

The Journal report stated the algorithms were considered part of the deal negotiations up until Friday. That's when the Chinese government introduced export restrictions on artificial intelligence technology that appear to cover content-recommendation algorithms such as the one powering TikTok. The move followed President Donald Trump's effort to force a sale of TikTok's U.S. operations by Sept. 20. Those export restrictions mean that TikToks Chinese owner, ByteDance Ltd., would have to obtain a license to export any restricted technologies to a foreign company. The Journal report said both the prospective buyers and the seller, ByteDance, are trying to figure that out.

Trump asked for a show of hands at a fundraiser at Chicago's Trump International Hotel of those who supported clemency for the 62-year-old Democrat. Most of the 200 to 300 attendees raised their hands, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing several people at Monday's event. On the same day, Trump told Chicago's WLS-TV that despite bringing up the possibility of freeing Blagojevich in August and then appearing to back away from the idea Blagojevich shouldn't abandon hope of an early release. Blagojevich's wife, Patti, has lobbied the Republican president hard on her husband's behalf. Trump first publicly mentioned the idea in May 2018, saying Blagojevich was convicted for "being stupid, saying things ... many other politicians say."

Ethan Miller/Getty Images(CNN) - Huawei is laying off more than 600 workers in the United States as the Chinese technology giant continues to struggle with new restrictions from the Trump administration. That action directly targeted China and Huawei, a leader in 5G technology and a global business with revenue of more than $100 billion. Huawei doesn't have a big presence in the United States, but the company is a sole provider of networking equipment to many rural American internet providers. The United States' actions against Huawei are taking a serious toll on the company's bottom line. Huawei recently said it will miss sales forecasts by about $30 billion over the next couple of years.

Justin Sullivan/Getty ImagesThe Federal Trade Commission has reportedly approved an approximately $5 billion settlement with Facebook, suggesting a lengthy investigation into the social media company's data privacy practices could be nearing an end. The FTC is said to have voted 3-2 in favor of the settlement, along party lines, according to reports from The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post on Friday. The FTC and Facebook declined to comment to on the reports. Facebook stock ended Friday up nearly 2% after the Journal report was released. The-CNN-Wire & 2019 Cable News Network, Inc., a Time Warner Company.