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Jerome Powell testifies before Congress in the week ahead, and investors hope to hear whether the Ukraine conflict could affect Fed rate hikes.

Ethiopian Airlines’ former chief engineer says in a whistleblower complaint filed with regulators that the carrier went into the maintenance records on a Boeing 737 Max jet a day after it crashed this year, a breach he contends was part of a pattern of corruption that included fabricating documents, signing off on shoddy repairs and even beating those who got...

New Haven parents are fuming after the school district released a new set of bus routes, changing some stop locations and eliminating others altogether.

The #MeToo and Time’s Up movements have brought huge attention to the challenges women face at work, but a new survey finds that 60% of male managers say they’re uncomfortable participating in regular work activities with women, including mentoring, working one-on-one or socializing. According to the survey, released by LeanIn.org and SurveyMonkey, that’s a 33% increase from last year. Senior-level...

A former Facebook employee accused the company of having “a black people problem” in a note published publicly on Tuesday on the social network. Mark Luckie, who is black, said Facebook’s population of black employees is not representative of its black user base. “There is often more diversity in Keynote presentations than the teams who present them,” Luckie wrote in...

The president of George Soros’ foundation blasted Facebook executives over allegations that the company had funded a Republican-opposition research firm to discredit Soros in part by leveraging anti-Semitic sentiment toward the billionaire liberal donor. The New York Times initially reported the allegations Wednesday evening as part of an investigation into Facebook’s handling of data exposure through the Cambridge Analytica scandal...

The CBS board is deep in settlement talks with CEO Les Moonves that would result in his departure and the appointment of COO Joe Ianniello as his interim replacement, people close to the negotiations told CNBC. The talks have been going on for some time but have yet to reach a conclusion given continued back and forth about his exit...

Infowars boss and far-right media personality Alex Jones got a stern warning Wednesday as he heckled and patronizingly patted Sen. Marco Rubio in the halls of Congress while ranting about being banned from social media platforms. “Don’t touch me again, man,” snapped Rubio after Jones pawed his shoulder while the Florida Republican was trying to answer questions from a gaggle...

In what Facebook is calling its single largest fundraiser ever, a couple from Silicon Valley raised nearly $20 million to help reunite migrant families separated at the border.

It has been a rough week for Facebook, both on the stock market and in the court of public opinion. With few answers as to how user data will be safer in the future, some people say they’re leaving Facebook and searching for social alternatives. NBC Bay Area’s Scott Budman reports.

The Weinstein Co. might be saved from bankruptcy after all. A group of investors, led by businesswoman Maria Contreras-Sweet, said Thursday that it has revived a potential deal to buy the assets of the beleaguered film and TV studio, which has been beset by lawsuits stemming from the sexual assault and harassment allegations against its deposed CEO, Harvey Weinstein.

Uber President Jeff Jones has resigned, the company confirmed to NBC News on Sunday.

Twitter will exclusively stream a “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” event this week, Variety reported. The event is set to include unreleased footage from the film, as well as a Q&A with the director, Gareth Edwards. Cast members will also join the Q&A. Fans will be able to submit questions via Twitter using the hashtag #AskRogueOne

Before moviegoers return to Pandora, they’ll be able visit the exotic alien world from “Avatar” on their smartphones. Lightstorm Entertainment and 20th Century Fox have enlisted game studio Kabam to develop an “Avatar” mobile game for release ahead of the next four film sequels.

Commencement speeches usually strike a celebratory tone, but Facebook Chief Operating Executive Sheryl Sandberg went against the grain Saturday while addressing UC Berkeley grads and spoke publically for the first time about the tragic death of her husband.

Thirty days after her husband died, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg posted on Wednesday a loving Facebook tribute to her late husband, Silicon Valley entrepreneur David Goldberg, who died in early May after collapsing at a Mexican resort on a treadmill.

David Goldberg, the SurveyMonkey CEO who also was Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg’s husband, was exercising at a gym in a Mexican resort when he collapsed before he died Friday, a person close to the family said.

“I don’t think we should be judgmental. Lord, I’ve got enough problems of my own to pass judgment on somebody else,” Parton says.