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He has faced pressure to resign over scandals from numerous state lawmakers and other state officials, including Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley (R).

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The company will begin bankruptcy proceedings, it said, after losing clients and facing mounting legal fees resulting from the scandal over reports the company harvested personal data about millions of Facebook users beginning in 2014.

Kenny, who has faced pressure from party colleagues to resign over a stumbling response to a police scandal, has said he will address his political future when he returns from America.

This year's F8 comes amid backlash against Facebook over user privacy and election meddling, following the Cambridge Analytica scandal, in which data from up to 87 million users was inappropriately obtained by a third party.

LANSING, Mich. (AP)-- Sports doctor Larry Nassar is on his way to prison for the rest of his life for molesting scores of young female athletes, but the scandal is far from over at Michigan State University as victims, lawmakers and a judge demand to know why he wasn't stopped years ago.

A rash of corporate scandals over the past decade, from the sub-prime mortgage crisis to the BP oil spill, has produced a default skepticism, Jekielek notes.

The comments from Cruz and Lee suggest MacManus will likely face a nasty confirmation battle that will touch on the role he played as Clinton's top aide in the immediate aftermath of the Benghazi attack, as well as during the scandal over her use of a private email account while serving as secretary of State.

There was an endless barrage of recriminations from the Progressive Conservatives and New Democrats over the scandals she inherited from her predecessor Dalton McGuinty.

Advertisers have flocked away from The O'Reilly Factor over the scandal, led by high - profile brands such as Allstate, Hyundai, and Mercedes - Benz.

How's this for a gripping corporate story line: Youthful founder gets booted from his company in the 1980s, returns in the 1990s, and in the following decade survives two brushes with death, one securities - law scandal, an also - ran product lineup, and his own often unpleasant demeanor to become the dominant personality in four distinct industries, a billionaire many times over, and CEO of the most valuable company in Silicon Valley.

Diess takes over from ousted CEO Matthias Müller, who stepped in to lead Volkswagen in the wake of the company's 2015 emissions scandal.

Indeed, over the period of time when Italy was in recession, the country's political scene has been nothing short of a mess, having gone from the scandal - hit tenure of billionaire businessman Silvio Berlusconi, to a technocratic government and two general elections in the space of a year.

Sloan took over as CEO in the fall of 2016 as the bank has tried to recover from a consumer sales scandal.

This would mark the latest headache for the bank, which is still recovering from a 2016 fake accounts scandal and paid a $ 1 billion fine over misconduct in its mortgage lending and auto businesses last week.

Facebook finds itself in a massive scandal over supposedly lax privacy measures that allowed political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica to acquire and retain personal data from the social network.

Food safety has haunted China over the decade, from the 2008 Chinese milk scandal where milk formula is adulterated with melamine to the 2014 tainted meat scandal when expired meat is supplied to fast - food joints such as KFC and McDonald's.

SAN FRANCISCO — In Uber's continuing attempt to repair its reputation over a series of scandals stemming from its bad - boy culture, its co-founder Travis Kalanick said he would take a leave of absence as chief executive.

Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said on Tuesday the social network had no immediate plans to apply a strict new European Union law on data privacy in its entirety to the rest of the world, as the company reels from a scandal over its handling of personal information of millions of its users.

Facebook has named a new head of U.S. public policy as the company deals with ongoing fallout from the Cambridge Analytica scandal and increasing pressure over privacy around the world.

Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said on Tuesday the social network had no immediate plans to apply a strict new European Union law on data privacy in its entirety to the rest of the world, as the company reels from a scandal over its handling of personal information of millions of its users.

During the first of two hearings on Capitol Hill on Thursday, the Environmental Protection Agency administrator faced tough questions from House Democrats over his myriad ethics scandals and deregulatory fervor.

Uber's founder and CEO Travis Kalanick has resigned after mounting pressure from shareholders over a string of workplace scandals.

And as The Daily Beast reports, «Zuckerberg declined to face his employees on Tuesday to explain the company's role in a widening international scandal over the 2016 election,» staying away from an internal town hall «held to brief and reassure employees» about the Cambridge Analytica mess.

Controversial political consultancy Cambridge Analytica is shutting down following a massive scandal over data it mined from Facebook during the 2016 election.

While Facebook remains more than 10 % below a record set earlier this year, it has sharply rebounded from recent weakness, when a scandal over how it handled its user data pushed it into bear - market territory, or a decline of at least 20 % from a peak.

In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, in which data from over 50 million Facebook profiles was secretly scraped and mined for voter insights, many Facebook users have decided to delete their accounts — but untangling yourself from a site

That tempest, dubbed the London Whale scandal, cost JPMorgan Chase at least $ 6.2 billion in losses, over $ 1 billion in fines, and a scathing 306 - page report from the U.S. Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.

Facebook is moving to untangle its often bewildering array of privacy options as the social network struggles to contain the damage from a widening scandal over user data.

Najib is grappling with a multi-billion-dollar scandal at state fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) and popular anger over rising living costs, which have given momentum to the challenge from his 92 - year - old mentor - turned - foe, Mahathir.

In the middle of its worst recession in 25 years, BBC also notes that Brazil is also suffering from a record public sector deficit, inflation of over 10 %, and a fragile investor mindset amidst the scandal surrounding Petrobras, the country's state - owned oil giant.

As the trial of the head of one of South Korea's largest conglomerates on corruption charges got underway, the president's ousting meant she lost her immunity to prosecution over the corruption scandal that forced her from office.

The battering Wells Fargo has taken over the past year from multiple scandals in its consumer operations might not be finished, Chief Executive Officer Tim Sloan said.

No wonder the atheist movement is growing... all of the scandals over let's say just the last 30 years... from all the child molesting that is rampant to mega church ministries and their ministers personal wealth and property... (why don't they live modestly and give all their money to those in need as they preach).

The intramural dialogue over what Mark Noll has called «the scandal of the evangelical mind» worries that intellectually serious people have passed evangelicals by while we were allured by the sensations of revivalism, seduced by a materialistic market - driven culture, overtaken by the «disaster of fundamentalism» in the face of challenges from modern science and technology, and robbed of our universities through negligence and the inertia of secularized education.

Trump has been scandal - ridden for his entire career — from alleged affairs with porn stars, to hush money payoffs, to alleged corruption in his corporate dealings — and still enjoys an approval rating of over 79 percent amongst white Evangelical Christians.

While the United States has been preoccupied with another Kennedy scandal, the controversies over Clarence Thomas and Mike Tyson, and the political fallout from a recession that may or may not he over, to the north something truly important is taking place.

With Mormonisms questionable past, and many scandals (Mark Hofmann, secret temple names, blood oaths, etc) it's only reasonable that people would want to shy away from having a leader in the White House that would hand over the country to his church (White Horse Prophesy).

CNN: Vatican shows rare public anger over leak The Vatican expressed rare public anger Wednesday in blasting the leaking of private papers from the pope's apartment, a scandal that observers say lifts the lid on a secret power struggle going on behind the closed doors of the Catholic Church.

There has been uproar in Romania over Bishop Barladeanu and another scandal involving a priest who had sex with a male student as believers are demanding more accountability from the church.

After years of alleged cover - ups and silence from the church over its paedophilia scandal, abuse survivors and their advocates have hailed the prosecution of Pell as a monumental shift in the way society is responding to the crisis.

In an industry gun - shy over adverse publicity from animal cruelty scandals, the extroverted Italian courted attention.

Baylor University fired head football coach Art Briles on Thursday, stemming from a nearly year - long scandal over how his program handled allegations of player violence against women.

Once his playing career was over, decent spells in charge of Swindon and Chelsea propelled him to the England job, which he inherited from a scandal - dogged Terry Venables after the sugar - rush of Euro 96.

Infantino, the Swiss - born son of Italian immigrant parents, took over the scandal - battered world body from disgraced president Sepp Blatter in February 2016.

The faux scandal and manufactured outrage arising from these two events highlights a worrying trend in modern political discourse: the prioritisation of the trivial over the substantial and of personalities over ideas.

«We are calling on Fayose tore sign from office over his failure to live up to expectation he should come out and defend himself in the N4.7 billion arms deal scandal and we also challenge him to explain to Ekiti people how he had spent six months allocation without payment of workers which has grounded the workforce.

The resignation of Bob Diamond from Barclays over the Libor scandal has triggered a new high - level resignation.

Amid the aftershock of the deepening scandal over producer Harvey Weinstein's alleged decades of sexual assault, New York's film and television business community is worried that a proposed amendment to the state's production tax credit would dissuade productions from shooting here.

Considering the fact that the Troopergate scandal, ignited by a scathing report from then - AG Cuomo, sparked the last public debate over the AG's public corruption powers, it's likely a plea to Spitzer's office to further strengthen Cuomo would have falled on deaf ears — to say the least.

The Liberal Democrat most under threat from the shadow of scandal this year was energy and climate change secretary Chris Huhne, who faces a police investigation over newspaper allegations that he tried to dodge speeding points on his licence.