JPMorgan Chase on Thursday promoted two of its top executives into newly created co-president roles, marking the latest step in CEO Jamie Dimon’s long-running succession planning while announcing the retirement of one of Dimon’s most prominent potential successors. Doug Petno and Troy Rohrbaugh, who have jointly led the bank’s commercial and investment banking division since…
Mark Singer, a staff writer at The New Yorker from the age of 23 who extended the magazine’s franchise of rich reporting and witty prose about offbeat, complicated and quintessentially American characters, died on Friday in Manhattan. He was 75. The cause of death, in a hospital, was cancer of the salivary gland, his son…
Film critic Gene Shalit is seen during a toast with Today show cast and crew at the end of Katie Couric’s final show on May 31, 2006, in New York. Richard Drew/AP hide caption toggle caption Richard Drew/AP NEW YORK — Gene Shalit, a movie critic and arts reporter for the “Today” show over four…
Bill Cody, the beloved presenter whose decades-long presence on WSM-AM Nashville, and as a regular host of the Grand Ole Opry, made him, for several generations, the voice of country music radio, died Tuesday (June 9) following a health battle. He was 67. Cody joined the team at WSM on April 25, 1994, fronting the…
On Wednesday, NASA announced the end of a more than 11-year mission aimed at solving a key mystery about Mars: What happened to the air that once made the planet habitable? The NASA spacecraft MAVEN, short for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, had been orbiting around the Red Planet since 2014. NASA last received a…
Representative David Scott, a Georgia Democrat who served nearly three decades in the state’s legislature before being elected to Congress, has died, his office announced on Wednesday. He was 80. Mr. Scott represented Georgia’s 13th Congressional District for more than 20 years. During his time in Washington, he established himself as an advocate for Black…
Keyboards are a type of archaic manual input device from the age before the iPhone, known for being popular with old people like me. If you’ve never encountered these antiques, you might be surprised to discover that they offer not only rapid text creation but also superior manual control of computer programs—like the Firefox browser,…
Shorouk Express Trump says he’s ‘much better-looking’ than Zohran Mamdani Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email Donald Trump has thrown his weight behind Andrew Cuomo’s bid for the New York Mayoralty…
Josh Raffaelli, who has deep roots as a Silicon Valley investor and has backed a number of Elon Musk companies, is suing his former employer, the massive trillion-dollar AUM Brookfield Asset Management, reports The New York Times. Much of Raffaelli’s complaint concerns how Brookfield covered pandemic-related real estate losses and alleges the company fired him…
