The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is examining how private equity firms report a key metric of their past performance when they market new funds to investors, as the regulator boosts its scrutiny of the industry, according to people familiar with the matter.
A group of Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives has called on President Barack Obama to suspend deportations of Central American families until problems are resolved at the newly opened detention facilities holding women and children.
Khloe Kardashian is reportedly trying to get in touch with her estranged husband, Lamar Odom to get him to sign their divorce papers. The former NBA player is refusing to do so and could not even be located. However, Khloe still has the upper hand as she can still push the divorce even without the cooperation of her husband.
Japan's main opposition party vowed on Tuesday to pursue Prime Minister Shinzo Abe over a string of cabinet funding scandals that have dented his popularity ratings, and attacked his signature "Abenomics" economic revival recipe as a failure.
