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Supported by Jeff Bezos’ Extortion Claim Said to Be Under Review by Prosecutors Image In attacking American Media Inc., Jeff Bezos, the chief executive of Amazon, showed he was willing to get dirty in the pursuit of victory.CreditCreditAndrew Harrer/Bloomberg By Jim Rutenberg, Karen Weise and William K. Rashbaum Feb. 8, ...

By MIKE ISAAC and DAISUKE WAKABAYASHI February 27, 2017 SAN FRANCISCO — A little more than a week after Uber faced stinging accusations that it had ignored female employees’ complaints of sexual harassment, the company dismissed the head of its engineering efforts for failing to disclose a sexual harassment claim from his previous job. ...

CAIRO — Pro-government Libyan militias backed by American air power said Wednesday that they had seized the Islamic State’s last stronghold in the country, in the seaside city of Surt. If confirmed, the capture would be a severe blow to the militant organization’s expansion into North Africa, and extend the ...

PARIS — When the French Open was finished, the sun finally came out, which seemed a most inappropriate punctuation mark for the cold and clammy tournament that had just ended. Unless, that is, you were Novak Djokovic. He has been waiting 12 years to slide out of others’ shadows and ...

Valeant Pharmaceuticals is shaping up to be the next big Wall Street brawl. Its shares soared to new heights earlier this year after investors followed big-name hedge fund managers like William A. Ackman and John P. Paulson into the drug company. Mr. Ackman even likened it to Warren E. Buffett’s ...

T. Boone Pickens speaking about energy at a town-hall meeting in 2008. The oil and gas tycoon has brought a claim against Ontario for $ 700 million in damages related to bids that his wind power company, Mesa Power, lost in wind power auctions. By ALEXANDRA STEVENSON October 15, 2015 T. Boone ...