WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump will be the subject of a second special counsel investigation, this one focused on his handling of classified documents found at his Mar-a-Lago home and “key aspects” of the investigation into his role in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, a senior Justice Department official told NBC News …
The European Union has launched an investigation into Microsoft’s planned takeover of video game giant Activision Blizzard, fearing the $69-billion deal would distort fair competition to popular titles like Call of Duty. Microsoft, maker of the Xbox gaming system, first announced the agreement to buy the California-based game publisher in January, but it still awaits …
CANBERRA, Australia — A government inquiry began hearing evidence Wednesday of unsolved deaths resulting from anti-gay hate crimes over four decades in Australia’s most populous state, where police were notoriously indifferent to such violence. The Special Commission of Inquiry into LGBTIQ Hate Crimes in New South Wales is the “first of its kind anywhere in the …
SEOUL — Police are investigating what caused the crowd surge that killed more than 150 people — including 26 foreigners — during Halloween festivities in Seoul over the weekend in South Korea’s worst disaster in years, as President Yoon Suk-yeol and tens of thousands of others paid respects to the dead at special mourning sites. Saturday’s …
