U.S. top court backs companies over worker class-action claims
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court delivered a blow to the rights of workers on Monday by allowing companies…
U.S. and Canadian regulators open probes into cryptocurrency scams
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. and Canadian state securities regulators announced Monday they have launched dozens of investigations into cryptocurrency scams.…
PM May challenges scientists to help transform Britain after Brexit
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s prime minister challenged scientists on Monday to help diagnose cancer earlier and create zero-emission cars, trying…
China considers scrapping birth limits by 2019: Bloomberg
HONG KONG (Reuters) – China is considering ending the limits it sets on the number of children a family can…
Congo begins giving experimental Ebola vaccine to medics
MBANDAKA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) – Congo began administering an experimental Ebola vaccine to medical staff in the northwestern…
Model 3 price hype helps Tesla shares bounce
(Reuters) – Shares in Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) jumped more than 4 percent on Monday as investors were encouraged by the…
Alleged chemical attack in Syria’s Douma was staged – Russian envoy to UN
UN Security Council held an emergency meeting on security in the Middle East, in the wake of reports of an…
Trump’s u-turn: US and Turkey agree to jointly fight against ISIS & Kurdish PKK
Donald Trump and his Turkish counterpart Recep Erdogan have agreed on a joint fight against ISIL and Kurdish separatist fighters…
China relieved U.S. trade war is ‘on hold’; U.S. business ambivalent
BEIJING (Reuters) – China on Monday praised a significant dialing back of trade tension with the United States, with the…
China praises positive steps in U.S. trade row, says didn’t give in
BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese state media on Monday praised a significant dialing back of trade tension with the United States,…
Early look inside the new African American museum
Lonnie G. Bunch III, the founding director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, gave a tour…
Australia’s Santos gets final sweetened $10.8 billion bid from Harbour Energy
(Reuters) – U.S.-based Harbour Energy made a final offer of $10.8 billion for Australia’s Santos Ltd (STO.AX) on Monday, hiking…
Hawaii lava finally reaches the Pacific — only to create another deadly danger
Laze — a mashup of “lava” and “haze” — is a nasty product formed when hot lava hits the ocean,…
Cougar kills mountain biker, injures another in Washington state
The King County Sheriff’s Office says the two mountain bikers were attacked along a trail Saturday morning in North Bend,…
U.S. stocks futures open higher with possible China trade war on hold
(Reuters) – U.S. stock future opened higher on Sunday after Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Sunday that the United…
British PM May calls on health, tech sectors to work on cancer
LONDON (Reuters) – Prime Minister Theresa May will call on Britain’s health service, charities and artificial intelligence sector to work…
Exclusive: GE nears deal to merge transportation unit with Wabtec – sources
(Reuters) – General Electric Co (GE.N) is nearing a deal to merge its transportation business, which manufactures train engines, with…
Parallel Universe: News of 2012 that could have happened
Wars, uprisings, crises and world-wide protests made 2012 a turbulent year, with not all that much positive news. But what…
U.S., China putting trade war on hold, Treasury’s Mnuchin says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. trade war with China is “on hold” after the world’s largest economies agreed to drop…
US rush for news turns smoke into bombs
The early bird may get the worm, but it may be the wrong worm. RT’s Priya Sridhar found, the scramble…
EU could compensate firms hit by U.S. sanctions over Iran: French minister
PARIS (Reuters) – France is looking to see if the European Union could compensate European companies that might be facing…
The Canadian Dream: VICE News Tonight on HBO (Full Segment)
The crackdown on immigration in the United States under the Trump administration has turned Buffalo, New York into a hiding…
U.S. sanctions on Iran threaten vital Afghanistan trade project
WASHINGTON/KABUL (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to pull out of the Iran nuclear accord and re-impose sanctions on…
Spoof News? Satirical site predicts Israel – US arms deal
After exhausting talks on Iran finally saw a deal reached, the spoof news website, the Onion, came up with its…
South Korea’s LG Group chairman dies from illness at 73
SEOUL (Reuters) – The chairman of South Korea’s LG Group, Koo Bon-moo, instrumental to transforming the country’s fourth-largest conglomerate into…
South Korea’s LG Group chairman dies at 73
SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea’s fourth-largest conglomerate LG Group said its Chairman Koo Bon-moo passed away on Sunday due to…
South Korea’s LG Group chairman Koo Bon-moo dies: Yonhap
SEOUL (Reuters) – Koo Bon-moo, the chairman of South Korea’s fourth-largest conglomerate LG Group, passed away on Sunday due to…
China agrees to import more from U.S., no sign of $200 billion figure
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – China has agreed to significantly increase its purchases of U.S. goods and services, the two countries said…
Big Ag turns to peas to meet soaring global protein demand
(Reuters) – Cargill, the global grains trader, sees the future of protein in the humble pea. FILE PHOTO: A box…
Media Grounded: No-fly zone over Arkansas oil spill to censor news coverage?
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has imposed an indefinate no-fly zone over an area in Arkansas recently affected by an…
China agrees to import more from U.S, no sign of $200 billion number
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – China has agreed to take measures to boost imports from the United States to reduce America’s trade…
Wall Street’s ‘Sell in May’ could be fading away
NEW YORK (Reuters) – “Sell in May and go away,” arguably the most well-worn axiom on Wall Street, has proven…
Trump urged U.S. Postal Service to double package rates for Amazon: Washington Post
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump has personally pushed the postmaster general to double the rates the U.S. Postal Service…
Napolitano: Is Turkey a friend or enemy to US?
Freedom Watch with Judge Napolitano: Judge Napolitano and former ambassador to the U.N., John Bolton, discuss President Erdogan of Turkey…
Sanctioned Russian oligarch Vekselberg cuts Swiss stakes
ZURICH (Reuters) – Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg has cut his holdings in Swiss companies OC Oerlikon (OERL.S) and Schmolz +…
Boeing’s foldable wingtip for new 777s gets approval
(Reuters) – Boeing Co (BA.N) on Friday won approval from the U.S. regulator Federal Aviation Administration for the company’s new…
U.S. gun lobby takes aim at ‘gun-hating’ banks Citi, BofA
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. gun lobby is taking aim at “gun-hating” banks after Citigroup Inc and Bank of America…
Campbell Soup CEO quits; company cuts forecast, to review portfolio
(Reuters) – Campbell Soup Co Chief Executive Officer Denise Morrison unexpectedly stepped down on Friday, as the company issued a…
Deutsche Boerse to include tech stocks in MDAX and SDAX in index shakeup
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Deutsche Boerse, the German stock exchange operator, is planning a major shakeup of the composition of three…
Are we heading for a third world war?- BBC News
We asked foreign policy experts around the world whether we are heading for a third world war. Producer Tobias Chapple…
Wall Street posts weekly loss as banks, chipmakers weigh
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The S&P 500 ended lower on Friday after a choppy trading session as bank and chipmaker…
ISS sides against two Tesla directors, backs split of Musk’s roles
BOSTON (Reuters) – Proxy adviser Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) recommended on Friday that investors vote against Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) directors…
U.S. agency rescinds order banning Louisiana distributor from opioid sales
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration on Friday reversed an order that halted a Louisiana drug wholesaler’s opioid…
These are the victims of the Santa Fe High School shooting
So far, two victims have been publicly identified: a substitute teacher and an exchange student from Pakistan. Here are profiles…
Proxy adviser ISS recommends votes against two Tesla directors
BOSTON (Reuters) – Proxy adviser Institutional Shareholder Services recommended on Friday that investors cast proxy votes against Tesla Inc (TSLA.O)…
U.S., China talks focus on cutting trade gap, $200 billion target disputed
WASHINGTON/BEIJING (Reuters) – China is “meeting many” Trump administration demands to cut its trade surplus with the United States, but…
U.S., China talks focus on cutting trade deficit, China denies $200 billion target
WASHINGTON/BEIJING (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday he was determined to stop China from “taking our jobs,…
White House pool journos find ways to bypass govt control over news content
White House journalists are looking for alternative ways of sharing information, accusing the Obama administration of shaping their coverage to…
Airbus loses ground in bid to sell jets to United: sources
PARIS/NEW YORK (Reuters) – Airbus’s hopes of winning an immediate respite from slow sales of its A330neo jetliner with an…
Texas school shooting: Shooter reported at Santa Fe High School
A gunman walked into an art class at Santa Fe High School and began firing what looked like a shotgun,…
Apple pays Ireland first tranche of disputed taxes
DUBLIN (Reuters) – Apple has paid 1.5 billion euros ($1.18 billion) into an escrow account set up by the Irish…
News Broken: US journos barred for doing job
America’s First Amendment guarantees freedom of the press, but many journalists covering some of the country’s major events are being…
Exclusive: BP chief sees shale, OPEC cooling oil markets
LONDON (Reuters) – BP (BP.L) Chief Executive Bob Dudley expects a flood of U.S. shale and the reopening of OPEC…
Porsche to recall 60,000 SUVs for emissions problems: German regulator
HAMBURG (Reuters) – Volkswagen’s (VOWG_p.DE) sports-car brand Porsche has been asked by Germany’s KBA automotive regulator to recall around 60,000…