Interestingly, Felt’s motivation for leaking about Watergate wasn’t whistleblowing: He wasn’t motivated by some patriotic sense of duty to protect American democracy. “He was doing that because Nixon appointed a sycophant, L. Patrick Gray, as FBI director,” Charles explains. “He wasn’t leaking out of some sympathy for Woodward and Bernstein or Watergate, but for his own interests — to undermine Gray.” A senior FBI official decides that Trump is a threat to the FBI, and begins leaking damaging in

The week after I graduated from college, as I was packing up to move to New York City and start a career in journalism, my mom gave me a simple piece of advice: Save part of every paycheck, even if it isn’t a lot. “Even if it’s only $20 a month, make it a habit to put away something every month.” “Right, of course, sure,” I responded, already preoccupied with a million other questions and fears about post-grad life. Starting out on an intern’s salary, I wasn’t able to save much. But even so, I s

Two days before the election, Comey said the new emails had been reviewed and “we have not changed our conclusion.” He did not absolve the former secretary of state from blame or fault, then or during his initial announcement of the FBI’s findings in July. His conclusion was that there was insufficient evidence that she had broken the actual statutes of law, which prohibit willfully mishandling classified information.

The eight-hour workday can work for you if you break your time into strategic intervals. Likewise, those who took deliberately relaxing breaks were better off than those who, when “resting,” had trouble separating themselves from their work. Breaks such as walking, reading, and chatting are the most effective forms of recharging because they take you away from your work. Keeping to your schedule ensures that you work when you’re the most productive and that you rest during times that would other

Here’s how much Tesla’s new solar roof will really cost you 2 Hours Ago | 01:30Tesla has signed another deal with a utility, partnering with a Vermont utility to offer customers backup electricity for a fee. The California-based sustainable energy company will install several of its nearly 4,000-pound Tesla Powerpack battery units on utility land, and offer the much-smaller Powerwall battery packs for up to 2,000 individual customers. Vermont utility Green Mountain Power delivers electricity to

You know you should save more money. So, other than working more or penny pinching , what can you do to save serious money each month? Together they can save you more than $500 each month. More from Mic:21 clever shopping tricks to save money on groceries, clothes and everything else you buyThe average class of 2017 starting salary — and what grads should do with their moneyThe 5 basic money skills everyone should master by age 351. According to one analysis, you’d need to spend $8,600 a year on

Never mind that the FBI director serves at the pleasure of the president. The firing of Comey is not a constitutional crisis until there is evidence that it is. Democrats have spent months impugning Comey’s integrity, after all, and most Republicans weren’t exactly fans either. You don’t trust Donald Trump to name an FBI director, even though it’s within his purview to do so? While there is plenty of hypocrisy to go around, Democrats’ newfound adoration of checks and balances simply isn’t credib

And though companies so far this year have posted strong earnings, politics could be the major driver of stocks going forward. Sentiment has been quite high, Wolff said, which has in turn jacked up multiples and expectations about growth under the new administration. “If the Trump administration ultimately fails to survive the political turmoil that intensified, without warning this week, one could rightly assume that the stock market could be vulnerable to an extended pullback. “We are already

Senator Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said on Friday that fired FBI Director James Comey had turned down an invitation to talk to the panel next week. “Yes well, one of the things we did do is we invited Comey to come and testify on Tuesday. He is not going to be testifying on Tuesday, but it is our hope in the not too distant future, that we can find time for him to come in and talk to our committee,” Warner told MSNBC in an interview.

If you’ve shopped at Brooks Brothers over the past year, you might want to monitor your credit and debit cards. The men’s clothing retailer said Friday it recently became aware of a security incident, which could impact the payment card information of customers who purchased items at its stores between April 4, 2016 and March 1. “It is important to note that no sensitive personal information, such as Social Security numbers or personally identifying information, was affected in this incident,” B

Using AI in health care Thursday, 11 May 2017 | 4:41 PM ET | 03:18Overall, excluding premiums, average out-of-pocket costs for people on Medicare are $3,024 per year, the study said. But its “benefit design also includes high cost-sharing and no limit on out-of-pocket costs.” Because of the often-high out-of-pocket charges, many Medicare beneficiaries buy Medigap supplemental insurance plans, which limit such costs. And because about 45 percent of Medicare beneficiaries earn less than $24,000 an

Attorneys for alleged victims of the Wells Fargo fake account scandal are now saying that the bank may have been responsible for more unauthorized accounts than previously thought. “The unauthorized account number reported in yesterday’s filing are estimates made by the plaintiff attorneys based on a hypothetical scenario and have not been verified,” Wells Fargo representative Ancel Martinez said in a statement. “The number of unauthorized accounts estimated in the filing do not reflect actual u

Starboard Value exited its stake in Macy’s in the first quarter, according to an SEC filing Friday. The hedge fund also added a position in cybersecurity firm Fortinet. The hedge fund ‘s CEO, Jeffrey Smith, had pressured the retailer to separate its real estate operations. On Thursday, Macy’s reported earnings that missed on both the top and bottom line. Watch: Starboard Value CEO on tax reform

If your net worth correlated with your weight in gold, you’d be swimming in cash. But are you literally worth your weight in gold? At a slim 140 pounds, Gates would only be worth $2.75 million in gold, as opposed to his actual $86 billion fortune. Baio’s 170 pounds, on the other hand, would translate to $3.34 million in gold — roughly the same as the actor’s true net worth. Baio is literally worth his weight in gold.

“We’ve all been programmed to really watch what’s going on in Washington,” Jonathan Corpina, senior managing partner at Meridian Equity Partners, said Friday on “Closing Bell.” The U.S. stock market closed mostly lower as investors digested a tough week for retailers and mixed economic data. “[It’s] what’s occurring and what’s giving investors sentiment, confidence or reason to pullback,” he added in an interview with “Closing Bell.” The Dow Jones industrial average closed down about 23 points,

Another one of Tableau’s recent clients is Brown-Forman, the consumer products company behind Jack Daniels whiskey. “They quickly ramped up to using Tableau for over 1,000 people within Brown-Forman. And they’re really using us across the company, from optimizing their plant and manufacturing to making pricing decisions to using Tableau to analyze sales and marketing campaign,” Selipsky said. The CEO added that a major reason of why Brown-Forman chose Tableau over its competitors is because of i

Nelson Peltz’s Trian Fund Management reported a first quarter stake of 36.17 million shares in Procter & Gamble, six times larger than the prior quarter, an SEC filing showed Friday. Sources told CNBC in February that Trian had taken a $3.5 billion stake in the consumer goods giant. The hedge fund added incrementally to its position in General Electric and reduced its position in DuPont in the first quarter, according to the filing. Trian did not add or exit any positions.

President Donald Trump wants “goddamned steam” power catapults on the Navy’s new Ford-Class aircraft carriers, not a new electromagnetic power system, according to Trump’s interview this week with Time magazine. A former Marine Corps captain, Grazier said the new Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System, or EMALS, on the Ford-Class carrier remains “an unproven system.” Sir, this is our digital catapult system. At the same time, the president said he also learned the new catapult system was “very c

Even as rising wages have helped prop up consumer spending, these are trying times for many of the industry’s most powerful brands. In malls across the country, shrinking sales have produced deeper losses and a historic wave of layoffs. On Friday, J.C. Penney said losses widened in the first three months of 2017 to $180 million. The report came a day after Macy’s reported that profits continue to spiral downward, dropping 38 percent in the latest quarter compared with a year ago. In February, Ma

President Donald Trump said on Friday that he had not asked fired FBI Director James Comey for his loyalty at a dinner in January. “No, I didn’t, but I don’t think it would be a bad question to ask,” Trump told Fox News Channel in an interview set to air in full on Saturday. “Loyalty to the country, loyalty to the United States is important. Asked about his suggestion in a tweet earlier on Friday that there might be recordings of his conversations with Comey, Trump said: “That I can’t talk about