David M. Rubenstein, billionaire co-founder of the Carlyle Group, has been named co-chairman of the Brookings Institution.
Rubenstein has years of experience with think tanks, as the interactive map below shows.
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One of the two suspects in the slaughter at the French magazine Charlie Hebdo met with a top leader of al-Qaeda in Yemen, Reuters reports.
Joan Fontaine has died at age 96.
The actress won an Oscar for her performance in Alfred Hitchcock’s “Suspicion,” and was nominated for two others, in “Rebecca” and “The Constant Nymph.”
Fontaine married and divorced four times.
She was the younger sister of an other Academy Award winner, Olivia de Havilland. The two had refused to speak to each other for decades.
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Unlike Woody Grant, the hardbitten character he plays in “Nebraska,” Bruce Dern grew up in a world of privilege.
Cory Booker, Democratic mayor of Newark, NJ, announced his candidacy Saturday for the U.S. Senate seat left vacant by the death of Sen. Frank Lautenberg.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has scheduled a special election for the post, with primaries on Aug. 13 and a general election on Oct. 16. In the meantime, Christie has appointed Republican state Attorney General Jeffrey Chiesa as interim senator.
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After stepping down as director in 1999, Kenneth Minihan moved to another role serving the National Security Agency.
Jay-Z is no longer a co-owner of the Brooklyn Nets.
The sale was necessary because of his launching the sports agency, Roc Nation Sports. NBA rules forbid team ownership by those who represent players.
“Being a member of the Nets organization surpassed some of my greatest ambitions,” he wrote on his web site, Life and Times. “It was never about an investment; it was about the NETS and Brooklyn. My job as an owner is over but as a fan it has just begun. I’m a Brooklyn Net forever.”
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The success of Renaissance Technologies has been very good for Barack Obama.
Peter Thiel isn’t the only billionaire selling Facebook stock. Co-founder Dustin Moskovitz has sold 450,000 shares in recent days, taking out $8.7 million.
Moskovitz still owns more than 7 million shares, worth more than $135 million.
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This is the so-called gang of eight, the bipartisan group of U.S. senators who have put together an agreement on immigration reform.
Cell phone carriers dial P for politics. See our post on Forbes.
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This is the so-called gang of eight, the bipartisan group of U.S. senators who have put together an agreement on immigration reform.
It’s no secret that billionaire Warren Buffett believes he should be paying more taxes.
In Sunday’s New York Times, he underscored his point, urging Congress to increase the rate for taxpayers making more than $1 million and to create a higher tax bracket for those making more than $10 million.
Buffett, who paid 17.4 percent of his taxable income last year, wrote that Washington seems to protect the affluent as if “we were spotted owls or some other endangered species.”
“My friends and I have been coddled long enough by a billionaire-friendly Congress,” he said. “It’s time for our government to get serious about shared sacrifice.”
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After a long vetting process by Major League Baseball, ownership of the Houston Astros passed Tuesday to businessman Jim Crane and his partners.
Britain’s Got Talent phenom Susan Boyle tells Access Hollywood that she doesn’t want her star status to end.
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This is the so-called gang of eight, the bipartisan group of U.S. senators who have put together an agreement on immigration reform.
Roland Burris, appointed to the U.S. Senate by former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, will not run for election in 2010, The New York Times reports.
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Experts on corporate governance tell the New York Times they’re not surprised by the troubles at Volkswagen.
John Harris, a former chief of staff to ousted Gov. Rod Blagojevich, pleaded guilty Wednesday to taking part in a scheme to sell or trade President Barack Obama’s Senate seat, according to the Associated Press.
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Aside from the paparazzi, the sartorial pressures and the scrutiny of a perfectly behaved great-grandmother, Baby Boy Cambridge has the burden of so many names.
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