Categoria: FINANÇAS

When he returned to Syria recently for the first time in 12 years, Kazem Togan asked the passport control agent to check whether he “had a name” — meaning that he was among the millions of citizens named on wanted lists under the ousted Assad dictatorship. “You’re wanted by branch 235,” the man told him, […]

President Trump plans to sign an executive order on Thursday instructing Education Secretary Linda McMahon tobegin dismantling the agency, according to two White House officials. The department cannot be closed without the approval of Congress, which created it. But the Trump administration has already taken steps to narrow the agency’s authority and significantly cut its […]

Tracy McCarter remembers vividly the first time she was strip-searched. On Rikers Island in New York, she was forced to remove every shred of clothing and bend over to expose the most intimate parts of her body to three strangers. Ms. McCarter, who was arrested after defending herself from a violent domestic partner, said it […]

China has executed four Canadians over drug-related convictions, Canada’s foreign affairs minister said Wednesday, a development that threatens to worsen an already tense relationship between the countries. Mélanie Joly, the Canadian minister, told reporters that she condemned the executions, and that the government would still seek clemency for others. “We will continue to engage with […]

In the 64,000 pages of documents released this week regarding the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy, there appeared to be no redactions, those blacked-out sections that typically dot sensitive material, even once it is declassified, to mask confidential or compromising data. Critics said that failure was evidence of an F.B.I. rush to vet […]

A few years ago, George Lewis was driving back from performing in a comedy club when he realized he had to change his life. He had played the same club several years earlier, also for just a few minutes and also for little more than gas money. Both times, he did what he had to […]

The U.S. government detained an Indian citizen who was studying and teaching at Georgetown University, and said he had been deemed “deportable” for violating the terms of his student visa. The academic, Badar Khan Suri, was detained at his home in Rosslyn, Va., on Monday night, according to his lawyer, Hassan Ahmad. Mr. Suri was […]

K.W. Lee, a pioneering Asian American journalist whose reporting led to the release of a Korean immigrant on death row in California, and who covered the Koreatown community targeted in the Los Angeles riots of 1992, died on March 8 at his home in Sacramento. He was 96. His death was confirmed by his daughters, […]

A West Virginia couple who adopted five children were sentenced to decades in prison on Wednesday after they were convicted of abusing some of them by locking them in a shed and forcing them to perform heavy labor, prosecutors said. The couple, Jeanne Whitefeather, 63, and Donald Lantz, 62, of Sissonville, W.Va., were found guilty […]

President Trump said on Wednesday that the Iran-backed Houthi militant group in Yemen would be “completely annihilated” by U.S. military strikes and warned Tehran to “immediately” stop supplying it with military equipment and general support and “let the Houthis fight it out themselves.” His remarks, posted on social media, came as the U.S. military continued […]