Europe Responds Swiftly to US Tariffs, Threatens Retaliation

Europe Responds Swiftly to US Tariffs, Threatens Retaliation

Reaction to U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to slap tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from American trading partners —...

US Slaps Tariffs on Steel, Aluminum from EU, Canada, Mexico  

US Slaps Tariffs on Steel, Aluminum from EU, Canada, Mexico  

The United States is escalating trans-Atlantic and North American trade tensions, imposing a 25 percent tariff on steel imports and...

Oregon’s Marijuana Story a Cautionary Tale for California

Oregon’s Marijuana Story a Cautionary Tale for California

When Oregon lawmakers created the state’s legal marijuana program, they had one goal in mind above all else: to persuade...

Gravity Could Be Source of Sustainable Energy

Gravity Could Be Source of Sustainable Energy

In today’s energy-hungry world, scientists are constantly revisiting every renewable resource looking for ways to increase efficiency. One researcher in...

Trump Planning Tariffs on European Steel, Aluminum

Trump Planning Tariffs on European Steel, Aluminum

President Donald Trump’s administration is planning to impose tariffs on European steel and aluminum imports after failing to win concessions...

Union: Strike Could Cost Vegas Casinos $10M a Day

Union: Strike Could Cost Vegas Casinos $10M a Day

The two largest resort operators in Las Vegas would lose more than $10 million a day combined if housekeepers, cooks...

US Judge Dismisses Kaspersky Suits to Overturn Government Ban

US Judge Dismisses Kaspersky Suits to Overturn Government Ban

A U.S. federal judge on Wednesday dismissed two lawsuits by Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab that sought to overturn bans on the...

Malaysia Moves to Rebalance Relationship With China

Malaysia Moves to Rebalance Relationship With China

Malaysia and China are looking to re-balance ties as the new government of Prime Minister Mahathir Mohammad seeks to renegotiate...

Greek Workers Join General Strike as End of Bailout Looms

Greek Workers Join General Strike as End of Bailout Looms

Greece’s largest labor unions are staging a general strike against plans to extend austerity measures, in a 24-hour protest that...

Starbucks Closes Stores For Anti-Bias Training

Starbucks Closes Stores For Anti-Bias Training

Starbucks closed 8,000 of its stores Tuesday to give 175,000 employees about four hours of anti-bias training. The sessions were...

Analysis: N. Korea Sees US Economic Handouts As Threat

Analysis: N. Korea Sees US Economic Handouts As Threat

The U.S.-North Korea summit appears to be back on track, but Pyongyang is showing increased impatience at comments coming out...

Canadian Who Aided Yahoo Email Hackers Gets 5-Year Term

Canadian Who Aided Yahoo Email Hackers Gets 5-Year Term

A Canadian accused of helping Russian intelligence agents break into email accounts as part of a massive 2014 data breach at Yahoo...

US Warns Again on Hacks It Blames on North Korea

US Warns Again on Hacks It Blames on North Korea

The U.S. government on Tuesday released an alert with technical details about a series of cyberattacks it blamed on the...

France to Beef Up Emergency Alert System on Social Media

France to Beef Up Emergency Alert System on Social Media

France’s Interior Ministry announced plans on Tuesday to beef up its emergency alert system to the public across social media....

Trump to Impose Tariffs on $50B of China’s Tech Goods

Trump to Impose Tariffs on $50B of China’s Tech Goods

The White House says it plans to impose 25 percent tariffs on $50 billion of Chinese goods that contain “industrially-significant...

Starbucks to Close Stores for Anti-Bias Training

Starbucks to Close Stores for Anti-Bias Training

In an effort to stem the outcry over the arrest of two black men at one of its stores, Starbucks...

Starbucks Training a First Step, Experts Say, in Facing Bias

Starbucks Training a First Step, Experts Say, in Facing Bias

Starbucks will close more than 8,000 stores nationwide Tuesday to conduct anti-bias training, the next of many steps the company...

China Rejects US Charge of "Forced Technology Transfer’ at WTO

China Rejects US Charge of "Forced Technology Transfer’ at WTO

China told the World Trade Organization’s dispute settlement body on Monday that U.S. accusations that Beijing forced companies to hand...

New Zealand Begins Mass Cull to Eradicate Cow Disease

New Zealand Begins Mass Cull to Eradicate Cow Disease

New Zealand will slaughter more than 100,000 cows in an effort to eradicate a bacterial disease. The government and agricultural...

Companies Look to Space As the Next Frontier

Companies Look to Space As the Next Frontier

The Trump administration is trying to give private companies a boost in their efforts to capitalize on space as a...

Vietnam Is Following China in its Economic Development

Vietnam Is Following China in its Economic Development

Vietnam is imitating China in its efforts to grow economically and lags its larger neighbor only by about a decade,...

Businesses Looking At Space as the Next Frontier

Businesses Looking At Space as the Next Frontier

Space X recently launched another rocket from California carrying satellites into space – accelerating interest by more businesses and research...