President Joe Biden's commission to study potential changes to the U.S. Supreme Court, including expanding the number of justices as some liberal activists have urged, is set to hold its first public meeting on Wednesday, two days after the court charged back into the battle.
DHS leadership failed to issue threat assessments ahead of January 6 despite receiving intelligence warnings
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee held a hearing Tuesday concerning the failure of the Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A) in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to warn law enforcement agencies and Congress of the impending attack on the Capitol January 6.
The hearing demonstrated that I&A was receiving ample evidence of the plans to attack the Capitol in order to stop the congressional certification of the Electoral College votes and keep Trump in office as president. But none of the officials of the I&A and their supervisors in the DHS leadership were actually summoned to be questioned, rendering the entire hearing an exercise in futility.
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Accor might be the latest company to dive into the special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC, merger market.
But the fact that the Paris-based hotel company behind brands like Novotel and Raffles would want to be in the driver’s seat of this kind of deal has analysts predicting this all boils down to keeping real estate holdings off Accor’s balance sheet.
“When public companies like Accor are looking for a SPAC, they probably want to make an acquisition that doesn’t exactly fit with their current business model,” said Nicolas Graf, associate dean at New York University’s Jonathan M. Tisch Center of Hospitality.
By Andrew Chung (Reuters) - President Joe Biden's commission to study potential changes to the U.S. Supreme Court, including expanding the number of j.