A report published from the Afghanistan Papers by "The Washington Post" journalist Craig Whitlock accuses former U.S. President George W. Bush and his administration of lying about the Taliban attempting to kill former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney during a 2007 attack on the Bagram Airfield base. 2021-08-10
Elon Musk surpasses Bill Gates to become the second-richest person in the world, behind Jeff Bezos. 2020-11-24
UN special rapporteurs Agnès Callamard and David Kaye demand an investigation into claims made by "The Guardian" yesterday that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman ordered the 2018 hacking of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos's phone. The hack was allegedly done months before the assassination of Jamal Khashoggi, who was employed at Bezos's newspaper "The Washington Post" and was a fierce critic of the Saudi government. The Saudi Foreign Ministry dismisses the allegations as "absurd". 2020-01-22
"The Washington Post" publishes raw interviews and notes taken for the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction's "lessons learned" initiative. The difference with the previously published reports reveals that senior U.S. administration officials misled the public by painting "a rosier picture of the state of the war than they knew to be true". 2019-12-9
"The Washington Post" reports that in June 2017 President Donald Trump secured the release of Otto Warmbier, a dying prisoner of North Korea, by agreeing to pay the regime in that country $2 million, described as a payment for hospital bills. 2019-04-25
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos publishes an online essay accusing American Media, Inc. owner David Pecker of "extortion and blackmail." 2019-02-7
Amazon.com announces bidding for a second headquarters campus in North America, to house 50,000 workers and cost $5 billion USD 2017-09-7
In the United States, the NASDAQ and S&P 500 end at record highs spurred by strong results by tech giants Google, Amazon and Microsoft. 2015-04-24
A two-year "Top Secret America" investigation by "The Washington Post" concludes that United States intelligence gathering has grown so much since the September 11 attacks that neither its true cost, size nor effectiveness in keeping the country safe is actually known. 2010-07-19
"The Washington Post" reports that Gizab villagers in Afghanistan overturned their local Taliban movement during April, with some members putting down their weapons and being welcomed back into their local community. The United States did not hear of this before now as it happened in a remote part of the country ignored by the military. 2010-06-21