The Internal Revenue Service has been urging tax preparation firms to step up their cybersecurity efforts this year, warning that identity thieves and hackers increasingly are targeting certified public accountants (CPAs) in a bid to siphon oodles of sensitive personal and financial data on taxpayers. This is
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Saudi Arabia said it intercepted a ballistic missile over Riyadh and shot down two drones in another part of the country on Wednesday, in the latest attacks by pro-Iranian Yemeni rebels showing improved military capabilities more than three years into the conflict. Loud blasts were heard in the night sky
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Johnson & Johnson and a talc-mining company were ordered by jurors to pay $80 million in punitive damages for hiding that their products, including J&J's iconic baby powder, had been tainted by asbestos and posed a cancer risk. The New Jersey jury's award brings to a total of $117 million that J&J
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President Donald Trump personally ordered the Department of Justice to hire a former White House official who was fired after he was caught up in a controversy over the release of intelligence material to a member of Congress, according to people familiar with the matter. Ezra Cohen-Watnick, who left
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Members of the Financial Accounting Standards Board voted 6 to 1 at a meeting in March to create a new, optional transition method for lessees under the ASC 842 lease accounting standards. The new method would provide an alternative to the modified retrospective transition method. The lease
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