Former Nigeria central bank governor re-arraigned on expanded corruption charges
Nigerian authorities announced 14 additional criminal charges on Thursday against former central bank Governor Godwin Emefiele. Emefiele was re-arraigned by Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Thursday before Justice Hamza Muazu of the Federal Capital Territory High Court on a revised 20-count charge sheet. The former bank governor faces charges of corrupt advantages, [...]
New York Times releases redacted US military report on failed Afghanistan drone strike
The New York Times released an article on Friday containing a half-complete document from US Central Command which investigated a failed drone strike in Afghanistan. 66 pages of the unclassified document were released to the New York Times, containing redactions, after a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit. The investigation was instigated shortly after the drone [...]
In his epochal, controversial and highly polarizing essay, “The Social Responsibility of Business Is To Increase Its Profits,” published in the New York Times Magazine some 70 years ago, Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman argued against the social responsibility of businesses, and explicitly declared that “the business of business is business.” The shareholder value theory of the [...]
Knowing what you know now about the Holocaust, if you were given a chance to go back in time and attend the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, would you? Would you willingly support the propagandistic rebranding efforts of Adolf Hitler and his Nazi regime? Or would you do everything in your power not only to [...]
Military investigation finds US Kabul drone strike caused by errors, not criminal negligence
US Air Force Inspector General Lieutenant General Sami Said Wednesday provided his findings and recommendations on the August 2021 US drone strike in Kabul that killed 10 civilians. He stated that the drone strike was caused by a series of errors, including not noticing a child right before the strike, not by criminal negligence. On [...]
Nippon Steep files lawsuit against Toyota for patent infringement
Nippon Steel filed a lawsuit Thursday alleging that Toyota Motor infringed on a patent for non-oriented magnetic steel sheets used in electric vehicles. The Japanese steelmaker is suing for compensation totaling 20 billion yen ($177 million). Nippon has also named public-listed Chinese steelmaker Baoshan Iron & Steel in the lawsuit for producing and supplying the allegedly [...]
GM withdraws support from Trump administration litigation on California auto emissions
Vehicle manufacturer General Motors (GM) announced Monday in a letter to environmental groups that it was withdrawing its support from Trump administration litigation aimed to revoke California’s right to set its own auto emissions rules. In September 2019 President Donald Trump announced that his administration was revoking California’s Federal Waiver on vehicle emission standards so [...]
Endometriosis: The Debilitating and Silent Pain Felt by Women Across the Globe
Women across the globe suffer from painful menstrual cycles in secret. Women are afraid to discuss their pain out of fear of losing their job, getting bad grades in school, and having people not understand what they are going through. Women suffer with pain day-in and day-out and cannot even get help from their doctors. [...]
General Motors, Toyota, and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, among other carmakers, announced Monday that they were supporting US President Donald Trump’s bid to block California from setting its own strict emission standards. The automakers have backed the Trump administration’s proposal to prohibit individual emission standards by state, saying “The certainty of one national program, with reasonable, [...]
A settlement was reached between plaintiffs and several car manufacturers in a lawsuit concerning defective Takata airbag inflators on Thursday. The faulty airbags would rupture and expel debris, causing injury and damage to the vehicle's cabin....
