A Congressional inquiry’s findings were remarkable both for the tens of billions of dollars involved and for Apple’s audacity in saying some of its subsidiaries were stateless and beyond any tax authority’s reach.
David Karp, 26, whose mother responded to his high school boredom with a suggestion that he try home-schooling, played a role in several start-ups before founding Tumblr.
Homes were flattened, cars flung through the air and at least two schools packed with children destroyed, sending rescuers to dig out those buried in rubble.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s economic shock therapy, which combines a flood of cheap cash, fiscal stimulus and deregulation, is getting early results.
Courts are looking to Urban Dictionary, a crowdsourced Web site, as one way to define words on which a case may turn.
Migrant deaths remain high even as apprehensions have fallen, with tighter borders pushing people to take riskier routes from Mexico to the United States.
Faced with calls to resign and growing criticism over his handling of sexual harassment allegations against an assemblyman, Sheldon Silver has unwavering support among Democrats.