Hurricane Florence is over North Carolina, causing 'life-threatening' storm surge and hurricane-force winds along the coast, according to the National Hurricane Center. 'Catastrophic' flooding is expected across North and South Carolinas, with maximum sustained winds at 90 mph as of 4 a.m. Friday.
Before agreeing to a plea deal with Paul Manafort, prosecutors likely sat down with him or his attorney for a proffer session, during which a defendant has to answer several key questions from investigators about his own case or any criminal activity he may have witnessed.
BI PRIME: Morgan Stanley is the most bearish firm on Wall Street when it comes to equities, but it likes industrial stocks. The firm highlights eight stocks it thinks will outperform the broader market going forward.
Former secretary of state John Kerry is back in the Trump administration's crosshairs after admitting to meeting Iranian officials after he left office.
BI PRIME: Walmart has snagged a partnership with Nike for its Jet.com site, and it will include shoes, apparel, and accessories. Amazon has had a relationship with Nike since 2017, but the partnerships are drastically different.
Evolution gave humanity powerful brains, flat feet, and opposable thumbs. But it's not through with us yet. From drinking milk to fending off disease, humans are still evolving new traits that help us survive and thrive in a changing world.
BI PRIME: Location-based firms have long promised marketers super-targeted ads. Now they're shifting gear to move away from advertising and into data.
BI PRIME: Automakers are spending billions of dollars on self-driving technology, but even if they have to buy autonomous systems from other companies their investments may not be a waste, experts told Business Insider.
President Donald Trump has reportedly been irritated by video footage of him throwing rolls of paper towels to a crowd of relief workers in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria last year. Those images earned Trump lots of criticism and accusations that he lacks empathy.
According to Bob Woodward's book "Fear," Russian officials warned Defense Secretary Jim Mattis that they were willing to use nuclear weapons under certain conditions — a warning that led him to see Russia as a threat to the US.
Fake social media profiles are useful for more than just sowing political discord among foreign adversaries, as it turns out. A group linked to the North Korean government has been able to duck existing sanctions on the country by concealing its true identity and developing software for clients abr…
Venture capital is known for being an opaque industry, so it's no surprise most of us have no idea what the average VC earns in a year.
This weekend, NASA is launching a new, high-tech satellite to monitor the planet's glacier and sea ice levels — with space lasers, naturally. ICESat-2 will be a huge boon for climatologists, and it's also a bittersweet occasion: it will be the final launch aboard the trusty Delta II rocket, which h…
Satellite imaging and analytics company Planet is taking the wraps off its new manufacturing space in San Francisco. Founded by ex-NASA employees, Planet is leveraging some of the $183 million in funding it’s amassed to expand. In the basement of a nondescript office building in the middle of…
Bon anniversaire, Let’s Encrypt! The free-to-use non-profit founded in 2014 in part by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and is backed by Akamai, Google, Facebook, Mozilla and more. Three years ago Friday, it issued its first certificate. Since then, the numbers have exploded. To date, more …
California plans to launch a satellite to monitor pollution in the state and contribute to climate science, Governor Jerry Brown announced today. The state is partnering with satellite imagery purveyor Planet to create a custom craft to "pinpoint – and stop – destructive emissions with unprecedente…
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai has provoked a senatorial response from California after calling the "nanny state's" new net neutrality legislation "radical," "anti-consumer," "illegal," and "burdensome." Senator Scott Wiener (D-CA), in response, said Pai has "abdicated his responsibility to ensure an open i…
Twitch is today announcing changes to its security procedures for its TwitchCon event taking place in San Jose, California on Saturday, October 27th. The update follows news of the tragic shooting at an esports event in Jacksonville, Florida last month where three people died, including the shooter…
The UK government says that access to satellites and space surveillance programs will suffer in the event of a “no deal” departure from the European Union . Britain has less than six months to go before the country leaves the 28 member state bloc, after a little over half the country vo…
Electric vehicles still make up just a fraction of the cars, trucks and SUVs on the road today. But that’s changing: the number of electric and plug-in hybrid cars on the world’s roads exceeded 3 million in 2017. By 2025, there are expected to be 20 million electric vehicles in just Nor…
The star talks about filming those scenes in the cage.
Special guest Bebe Rexha performs an intimate concert for our final five.
Debbie continues her fight for equal pay and gender equality.
And another one gets bit.
SPOILER ALERT: Read on only if you have already watched Sunday’s 'MM 54' episode of 'Fear the Walking Dead.'
Joaquin Phoenix is giving us some serious Taxi Driver vibes in his mesmerizing first photo as the Joker
Mahershala Ali and Viggo Mortensen star in Peter Farrelly's 1960s-set drama.
Also arriving this weekend are 'A Simple Favor' and 'White Boy Rick.'
The 69-year-old actor and his wife announced the news with some help from the Dalai Lama.
If you think this won't shake things up, think again.
