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turbinetree's JournalExpedia CEO, CFO resign after clash over strategy with board
Technology News
December 4, 2019 / 9:51 AM / Updated 13 minutes ago
(Reuters) - Expedia Group Inc’s (EXPE.O) chief executive officer and finance head have resigned following a disagreement with the online travel company’s board over its business outlook, Chairman Barry Diller said on Wednesday.
Billionaire Diller, who is also chairman of Expedia’s former parent IAC/InterActiveCorp IACI.O, said he will oversee the executive leadership team along with Vice Chairman Peter Kern until the board finds a replacement.
“Ultimately, senior management and the board disagreed on strategy,” Chairman Barry Diller said in a statement, adding that the company’s reorganization plan launched earlier this year had led to disappointing third-quarter results and a “lackluster” near-term outlook.
“The board disagreed with that outlook, as well as the departing leadership’s vision for growth, strongly believing the Company can accelerate growth in 2020,” Diller said.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-expedia-group-executives/expedia-ceo-cfo-resign-after-clash-over-strategy-with-board-idUSKBN1Y81ZW?il=0
Constitutional experts in impeachment inquiry slam Trump actions
Politics
December 4, 2019 / 5:30 AM / Updated 5 minutes ago
David Morgan, Patricia Zengerle
7 Min Read
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Three constitutional law experts called by Democrats will testify on Wednesday that President Donald Trump’s actions concerning Ukraine represented impeachable offenses as the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee began proceedings expected to end in charges against Trump.
A fourth law professor, chosen by Republican lawmakers, said in prepared testimony that the impeachment inquiry lacked testimony from people with direct knowledge of the events and that current evidence did not show that Trump had committed “a clear criminal act,” according to written opening remarks prepared for the committee.
An impeachment inquiry launched by the Democratic-led House in September focuses on the Republican president’s request that Ukraine announce investigations that could harm Democratic political rival Joe Biden.
After more than two months of investigation, the committee will hold a hearing to examine whether Trump’s actions qualify as the “high crimes and misdemeanors” punishable by impeachment under the U.S. Constitution. If the House approves articles of impeachment - formal charges - then Senate then would hold a trial on whether to remove Trump from office.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment/constitutional-experts-in-impeachment-inquiry-slam-trump-actions-idUSKBN1Y817H?il=0
Hey Turley did you by some strange chance listen to the testimony from Fiona Hill and LT. Col. Alexander Vindman...........................or were you on Fix Russian Noise doing exactly what.............................deflecting
Trump cancels NATO press conference after video shows world leaders mocking him
By Emily Singer -
December 4, 2019 9:33 AM
Three world leaders were caught on camera making fun of Trump for being late because of his long-winded press conferences.
Donald Trump canceled a final news conference at the NATO summit, following the surfacing of a video that captured world leaders making fun of Trump.
"We'll go directly back to Washington," Trump said Wednesday morning during a photo op with Germany Chancellor Angela Merkel. "I think we've done plenty of press conferences, unless you're demanding a press conference, we'll do one. But I think we've answered plenty of questions."
On Tuesday night, video surfaced of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, French President Emmanuel Macron, and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson laughing and making fun of Trump for being late to meetings during the summit, thanks to his long press conferences.
In the video, Johnson asks Macron why he was late to an event.
https://americanindependent.com/donald-trump-nato-press-conference-world-leaders-mocking-video-justin-trudeau-emmanuel-macron-boris-johnson/
November 3, 2020 cannot get here fast enough
Impeachment watch: Democrats vow to not 'take any sh*t' from GOP at hearing
By Emily Singer -
December 4, 2019 9:06 AM
House Democrats are preparing for Republicans on the Judiciary Committee to act like clowns.
The next phase of impeachment begins Wednesday, when the House Judiciary Committee will hold its first public hearing to determine what articles of impeachment, if any, Donald Trump will face.
And Democrats on the committee are preparing for Republicans to behave like clowns, Politico reported, with Judiciary Committee Chair Jerry Nadler telling the Democratic caucus that he is "not going to take any shit" from the GOP lawmakers at the hearing.
The House Judiciary Committee is far larger than the House Intelligence Committee, where the hearings had been taking place.
And a number of the GOP lawmakers on the Judiciary Committee are some of the biggest Trump defenders on Capitol Hill who are known to pull childish stunts.
https://americanindependent.com/impeachment-hearing-donald-trump-house-judiciary-committee-jerry-nadler/
Well the second order of business will be to ask Devin Nunes to remove himself from the chamber and then call him him as a witness...............................what a enabling scumbag..................
November 3, 2020 cannot get here fast enough
Special Report: 2020 U.S. census plagued by hacking threats, cost overruns
TECHNOLOGY NEWS DECEMBER 4, 2019 / 7:06 AM / UPDATED 2 HOURS AGO
Nick Brown 20 min Read
(Reuters) - In 2016, the U.S. Census Bureau faced a pivotal choice in its plan to digitize the nation’s once-a-decade population count: build a system for collecting and processing data in-house, or buy one from an outside contractor.
The bureau chose Pegasystems Inc, reasoning that outsourcing would be cheaper and more effective.
Three years later, the project faces serious reliability and security problems, according to Reuters interviews with six technology professionals currently or formerly involved in the census digitization effort. And its projected cost has doubled to $167 million — about $40 million more than the bureau’s 2016 cost projection for building the site in-house.
The Pega-built website was hacked from IP addresses in Russia during 2018 testing of census systems, according to two security sources with direct knowledge of the incident. One of the sources said an intruder bypassed a “firewall” and accessed parts of the system that should have been restricted to census developers.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-census-technology-specialreport/special-report-2020-u-s-census-plagued-by-hacking-threats-cost-overruns-idUSKBN1Y81H8
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