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Oxford University employee Andrew Warren charged with murder after hairstylist found stabbed to death in Chicago apartment

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An Oxford University employee has been charged with murder in Chicago after a 26-year-old hair stylist was found with more than 40 stab wounds. Somerville College's Andrew Warren, 56, is accused of killing Trenton Cornell -Duranleau. Professor Wyndham Lathem , 42, whose apartment the body was found in, is also accused. Chicago Police announced on Saturday that they had both been charged with first degree murder after they were returned to the city from California, where they handed themselves in following a nationwide manhunt. Their charges came after a post- mortem examination found the victim, who police say was in a personal relationship with Lathem, had methamphetamines in his system. © Provided by Independent Print Limited victim.jpg Stabbed to death: Trenton Cornell -Duranleau Warren, who says online he lives in Swindon, Wiltshire, was suspended from his job as senior treasury assistant after the body of the man, originally from Corunna, Michigan, was found mutilated on ...

Carl Icahn’s Failed Raid on Washington

One day in August, 2016, the financier Carl Icahn made an urgent phone call to the Environmental Protection Agency . Icahn is one of the richest men on Wall Street, and he has thrived, in no small measure, because of a capacity to intimidate. A Texas- based oil refiner in which he had a major stake was losing money because of an obscure environmental rule that Icahn regarded as unduly onerous. Icahn is a voluble critic of any government regulation that constrains his companies. So he wanted to speak with the person in charge of enforcing the policy: a senior official at the E.P.A. named Janet McCabe . Icahn works from a suite of offices, atop the General Motors Building , in midtown, that are decorated in the oak-and-leather fashion of a tycoon’s lair in a nineteen-eighties film. During that decade, Icahn made his reputation as one of the original corporate raiders , pioneering the art of the hostile takeover and establishing himself as a human juggernaut—a pugnacious deal machine ...