Good morning. Aaron here filling in for Adam. I’ve been covering T-Mobile for the past few years, beginning just slightly after John Legere came on as CEO in late 2012, with all his outspokenness and his new ideas for shaking up the wireless market. It’s been an awesome story. What’s the old saying? First they ignore you, then they laugh
The Philippine government has imposed martial law on Mindinao after radical Islamic extremists launched attacks, but it didn’t stop the terrorists from conducting operations. The rebels took a Catholic priest and 13 parishioners and parish employees hostage this morning after attacking the church, despite a blackout in the city of Marawi in which the church was located: Muslim extremists abducted
ET CETERA Purse purgatory: We've written about Coach's increasing interest in M&A before. Today Fortune's Phil Wahba published a feature on the company's turnaround. The relevant part for Term Sheet readers: Coach itself has been the subject of takeover rumors, but in the past year executives have sent clear signals that they'd rather eat than be eaten. In April the
Arsonists have burnt down a door at a mosque in Greater Manchester in a suspected race hate 'retaliatory' attack following Monday night's bombing. The door at Jamia Qasmia Zahidia Islamic Centre on Villa Road, Oldham, was set alight at around 2am according to its imam, Mohammad Saddiq. Mr Saddiq, 60, said: 'Last night at around 2am somebody has started a
What I mean in the headline is, is it their animosity towards Russia after the election that’s mainly driving this or is it more of a tribal “whatever Trump thinks, I think the opposite” reaction? The president is America’s most famous NATO skeptic, after all. Or he was, until about a month ago. The two options aren’t mutually exclusive. It
The U.S. government’s national security requests on Apple data soared during the second half of 2016. Apple reported in a biannual transparency report released on Tuesday that it received between 5,750 and 5,999 national security orders during the second half of 2016. Apple said that those orders affected between 4,750 and 4,999 user accounts. The U.S. government doesn’t allow companies
Fans will have to wait a bit longer for Jon Stewart to make his return to television. HBO and Stewart said that they will not move forward with the comedian’s short-form animated project, according to CNN. “We all thought the project had great potential but there were technical issues in terms of production and distribution that proved too difficult given
Israel has attacked Syria again, but this time Syria actually fired back – raising concerns about this conflict blowing-out into a wider war. For the first time in 6 years, Israel officially acknowledged an airstrike in Syria, after a pre-down raid. However, according Syria’s military, an Israeli plane was downed and another hit another while carrying out strikes against Syria
WASHINGTON – The House Intelligence Committee will likely issue subpoenas as soon as this week for information from former national security adviser Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn and his companies, according to the panel’s top Democrat, after Flynn failed to voluntarily provide documents they had requested for their probe into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 elections. Rep. Adam Schiff, Calif.,
Unsealed records from the Kansas Department of Children and Families (DCF) show multiple allegations of abuse against Heather Jones, the stepmother of Adrian Jones who, along with Adrian’s father Michael, pleaded guilty to murdering the child. The 7-year-old boy starved to death in 2015 before his father fed his body to pigs. Prior to his death, Adrian suffered extreme abuse
