Justice Elena Kagan committed a breach of protocol midway through the U.S. Supreme Court's Dec. 5 argument in a case involving a cake for a gay wedding. Seeing that a lawyer's time was expiring but wanting to ask another question, Kagan said she was confident Chief Justice John Roberts would
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Wikileaks founder Julian Assange lost his bid to have a U.K. court dismiss the arrest warrant that he's been avoiding for 5 1/2 years by hiding in Ecuador's embassy in London, with the London judge saying he lacked courage. It's the second time this month a U.K. judge has refused to overturn the arrest
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Accounting for all of this is complicated, but that hasn't stopped researchers from trying. Two recent studies helped to clear up some of the issues. One study found an error in the calibration system on the TOPEX/Poseidon satellite, which was throwing off its sea level measurements by a few millimeters.
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The FBI notified the White House in July about domestic violence allegations against former White House Staff Secretary Rob Porter, a person familiar with the matter said. Porter resigned last week after news reports on abuse allegations from two of his ex-wives. The allegations were contained in a
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The Financial Accounting Standards Board appears to be moving forward with a proposed accounting standards update to reclassify the stranded tax effects from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, although at least one investor group has some concerns. At a FASB meeting last week, the board
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