Posts by Newsmaker

Silicon Valley Becomes Punching Bag for Presidential Hopefuls

Silicon Valley Becomes Punching Bag for Presidential Hopefuls

Democratic presidential candidates are flocking to Silicon Valley but this time it’s different. Once candidates wooed wealthy tech executives at...

Pence Conveys Trump’s Strong Support for Johnson’s Brexit

Pence Conveys Trump’s Strong Support for Johnson’s Brexit

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence said Thursday the United States is ready to make a free trade agreement with Britain...

‘Deepfake Challenge’ Aims to Detect Phony Video, Other Media

‘Deepfake Challenge’ Aims to Detect Phony Video, Other Media

Technology firms and academics have joined together to launch a “deepfake challenge” to improve tools to detect videos and other...

Observers Cry Foul Over Kyiv’s Release of Key Witness in Flight MH17 Probe

Observers Cry Foul Over Kyiv’s Release of Key Witness in Flight MH17 Probe

This story originated in Last week, a Ukrainian court released Vyshinsky on his own recognizance as he awaits trial on...

Activists See European Shortfalls in Battling Domestic Violence

Activists See European Shortfalls in Battling Domestic Violence

The stories are haunting: A young woman beaten by her partner before being set on fire in front of her 7-year-old...

Pope Stresses Hope, Peace, Reconciliation in Divided Mozambique

Pope Stresses Hope, Peace, Reconciliation in Divided Mozambique

Hope, peace, and reconciliation were the three main pillars of Pope Francis’s message to lawmakers and youth Thursday during his...

Will Boris Johnson’s Election Gamble Pay Off?

Will Boris Johnson’s Election Gamble Pay Off?

No one has ever seen the like before in modern times. Britain’s storied Parliament has made plenty of history over...

Italy Swears In New Cabinet Eyeing Fresh Start for EU Ties

Italy Swears In New Cabinet Eyeing Fresh Start for EU Ties

President Sergio Mattarella on Thursday swore in Italy’s new pro-European government, heralding a fresh start for the eurozone’s third largest...

Putin: Russia to Produce Previously Banned Missiles, Deploy Them if US Does

Putin: Russia to Produce Previously Banned Missiles, Deploy Them if US Does

President Vladimir Putin says Russia will produce missiles banned until last month when a treaty forbidding them ended but would...

First Day of School for 4-Year-Old UK Princess Charlotte

First Day of School for 4-Year-Old UK Princess Charlotte

Britain’s Princess Charlotte had plenty of support on her first day of school she was accompanied by older brother Prince...

MH17 Suspect to be Released

MH17 Suspect to be Released

A court in Kyiv has released Volodymyr Tsemakh, a suspect in the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (MH17) five...

British PM Johnson Suffers Historic Brexit Defeats as Election Looms

British PM Johnson Suffers Historic Brexit Defeats as Election Looms

Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson suffered a series of damaging defeats over the government’s Brexit policy Wednesday, as lawmakers attempted...

British PM Johnson Suffers Historic Brexit Defeats as Election Looms

British PM Johnson Suffers Historic Brexit Defeats as Election Looms

Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson suffered a series of damaging defeats Wednesday over the government’s policy on leaving the European...

Dutch Woman Who Saved Jews from Nazis Dies at 99

Dutch Woman Who Saved Jews from Nazis Dies at 99

A Dutch woman hailed by the king as one of the country’s national heroes for saving hundreds of Jews from...

Social Media, Tech Companies Meet With US Intelligence on 2020 Election Strategy

Social Media, Tech Companies Meet With US Intelligence on 2020 Election Strategy

A number of technology companies including Facebook Inc., Alphabet’s Google, Microsoft Corp. and Twitter Inc. met with representatives of the...

Report Warns No-Deal Brexit Means Political Uncertainty 

Report Warns No-Deal Brexit Means Political Uncertainty 

The British government announced Wednesday that it would spend an additional $2.4 billion on preparing to leave the European Union,...

Twitter Turns Off Tweeting by Text to Guard Against Hacking

Twitter Turns Off Tweeting by Text to Guard Against Hacking

Twitter on Wednesday halted users’ ability to fire off tweets via text messages as it seeks to fix a vulnerability...

Turkey’s Erdogan Defies Pressure Not to Have Nuclear Warheads

Turkey’s Erdogan Defies Pressure Not to Have Nuclear Warheads

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday lashed out at pressure on some countries — including his own — not...

Poland Pressured to Say If It Bought Israeli Phone Spyware

Poland Pressured to Say If It Bought Israeli Phone Spyware

The Polish government came under pressure Wednesday to clarify whether it has purchased sophisticated and potentially illegal phone surveillance technology...

Amid British Brexit Turmoil, EU Braces for Worst

Amid British Brexit Turmoil, EU Braces for Worst

Britain’s political turmoil is again making headlines across the English Channel, with a number of European commentators criticizing Prime Minister...

Google’s YouTube Video Site Fined $170 Million

Google’s YouTube Video Site Fined $170 Million

Google’s YouTube video service has been fined $170 million to settle charges of illegally collecting and sharing personal information from...

Swedish Lawyer Won’t Appeal A$AP Rocky’s Assault Verdict

Swedish Lawyer Won’t Appeal A$AP Rocky’s Assault Verdict

The lawyer for American rapper A$AP Rocky says his client won’t appeal his assault conviction for a June 30 street...