One of the biggest super political action committees backing Donald Trump's campaign has done little since the election other than pay a sizable salary to its top official, a longtime friend and business associate of the president's former campaign manager, Paul Manafort. Laurance Gay, the godfather to
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Moscow (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin visited a Russian military air base in Syria on Monday and announced a partial pullout of Russian forces from the country. Putin made a stopover at the Hemeimeem air base in Syria's coastal province of Latakia while en route to Egypt. The base, in the
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On the night of Nov. 14, Roy Moore's campaign for an Alabama Senate seat looked all but finished. After five women came forward with accounts of Moore's alleged sexual misconduct with them as teenagers, including one who was 14 years old, the GOP candidate was abandoned by Senate Majority
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South African retail conglomerate Steinhoff has appointed advisers in a bid to fix accounting irregularities. The embattled retail giant said today that it had hired Moelis & Company to lead discussions with its lenders. AlixPartners has been appointed to advise on Steinhoff's operations and its liquidity.
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Hyperbole? Perhaps. In fairness, you've probably heard of the new revenue-recognition standard, if not its uninspired acronym. But what you know of the new standard probably can be boiled down to three points: It's an accounting regulation. It affects public companies (at least first and foremost).
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