By Arriana McLymore (Reuters) -Amazon.com removed a reference to “inclusion and diversity” in its annual report filed on Thursday, after it told employees in a December memo that it was winding down its programs as part of corporate America’s broader retreat from such policies. Some of America’s biggest businesses have been scaling back diversity initiatives,…
By Alexandra Alper and Raphael Satter WASHINGTON (Reuters) – One of the people working with billionaire Elon Musk in his efforts to overhaul the U.S. government is a Berkeley-educated computer scientist who has boosted white supremacists and misogynists online. Gavin Kliger lists his job on LinkedIn as “Special Advisor to the Director” at the Office…
By Saeed Azhar (Reuters) -Bank of America has agreed to buy a $9 billion portfolio of residential mortgage loans from Toronto-Dominion Bank, a source familiar with the matter said on Friday. TD did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The Canadian lender’s CEO Raymond Chun had said at a banking conference in January…
By Andrew Goudsward, Nate Raymond and Daphne Psaledakis WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. judge is weighing whether to temporarily block the Trump administration from dismantling the U.S. Agency for International Development and carrying out plans to put thousands of its workers globally on administrative leave at midnight. U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols in Washington on Friday…
