Listen 6 min Comment on this story Comment Gift Article Share The year was 1959, and talks between the Screen Actors Guild and movie studios had stalled. The actors sought residual payments from TV channels that reran films they’d worked on, in what would have been a drastic shake-up.... … He was a pretty good negotiator, there’s no doubt about it.... Reagan would later joke that negotiating with Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet leader, over arms reduction was nothing in comparison to having to n

Last week, Moody’s downgraded NSO Group’s financial outlook to negative, saying it risked defaulting on more than$ 300 million in loans as a result of “ high uncertainty ” of its ability to sell new licenses.... It said NSO Group, which is privately held, has about 750 employees with 60 customers in more than 35 countriesThe impact on companies blacklisted by the Commerce Department, about half of which are Chinese, is often far broader than barring them from using U.S. technology.... Josef Fe

A global media consortium last year uncovered dozens of high-profile cases in which the NSO Group malware was employed to eavesdrop on journalists, politicians, diplomats, lawyers and human rights activists from the Middle East to Mexico.... The revelations have rocked Poland, drawing comparisons to the 1970s Watergate scandal in the United States and eliciting calls for an investigation and accountability.... NSO Group does not identify its customers but says it only sells Pegasus to governme

WARSAW, Poland--Israel on Saturday condemned Poland’s approval of a law that restricts the rights of Holocaust survivors or their descendants to reclaim property seized by the country’s former communist regime and announced it was recalling its top diplomat in protest. The move ignited a diplomatic crisis between Israel’s new government and the nationalist conservative government in Poland.... “ Linking this act with the Holocaust raises my firm objection.” Before World War II, Poland was home

It also called on Ben Jerry's to withdraw its decision. While Ben Jerry’s products will not be sold in the settlements, the company said it will stay in Israel through a different arrangement.... Major Israeli supermarket chains, the primary distribution channel for the ice cream maker, all operate in the settlements. Founded in Vermont in 1978, but currently owned by consumer goods conglomerate Unilever, Ben Jerry’s has not shied away from social causes.... Meanwhile, Israel considers the Wes

All told, some 70 senators appear poised to vote for the package, a potentially robust tally of lawmakers eager to tap the new spending for their states and to show voters back home they can deliver.... Their shacks are partly constructed with wooden planks made from pine trees the villagers cut down, adding to the deforestation that, coupled with the climate change-fueled storm, led to the disaster.... Children suffer from malnutrition; there is not enough farmland to till, and not enough foo

close Ivy League schools blame Israel for Hamas attacks Lest People Forget Project founder Elizabeth Pipko reacts on' Jesse Watters Primetime'to pro-Palestinian protests, commentary in the United States.... Listen to this article 0: 00/ 5: 01 1X BeyondWords Amid risinganti-IsraelsentimentatIvyLeagueuniversities like Harvard and Yale, someJewishparents arepledgingnot to send their children there, and commentators like Bill Maher and Ben Shapiro are encouraging it.... If we removeJewishvoices, w

BOSTON--Human rights and press freedom activists are up in arms about a new report on NSO Group, the notorious Israeli hacker-for-hire company.... The report, by a global media consortium, expands public knowledge of the target list used in NSO's military-grade spyware.... According to the report, that now not only includes journalists, rights activists and opposition political figures, but also people close to them. The groups have decried the virtual absence of regulation of commercial surve

“ Global tax evasion fuels global inequality.... Buying the company shares instead of the London building saved the Blairs more than$ 400, 000 in property taxes, the investigation found. The Blairs and the al-Zayanis both said they didn’t initially know the other party was involved in the deal, the probe found.... Ernst told the organization the deal wasn't secret and denied suggestions he was given special treatment.In 2009, Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis put$ 22 million into shell compani

Russian troops stormed toward Ukraine’s capital Saturday, and street fighting broke out as city officials urged residents to take shelter.... The country's president refused an American offer to evacuate, insisting that he would stay.... In a video recorded on a downtown Kyiv street, he said he had not left the city and that claims the Ukrainian military would put down arms were false.“ We aren’t going to lay down weapons....