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White House: Trump Wants $8.6 Billion for Border Wall in 2020 Budget

White House: Trump Wants $8.6 Billion for Border Wall in 2020 Budget

President Donald Trump plans to seek another $8.6 billion for a border wall in his new budget to be released...

Organization in Iraq’s Kurdish Region Helps College Graduates Start Businesses

Organization in Iraq’s Kurdish Region Helps College Graduates Start Businesses

One of the biggest concerns for university graduates in Iraq is finding a job. Young graduates often seek the government’s...

Boeing Likely to Face New Questions After Another 737 Crash

Boeing Likely to Face New Questions After Another 737 Crash

Investigators rushed to the scene of a devastating plane crash in Ethiopia on Sunday, an accident that could renew safety...

White House: Trump Wants 5% Cut in 2020 Domestic Spending

White House: Trump Wants 5% Cut in 2020 Domestic Spending

White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow says that President Donald Trump will call for a 5 percent “across the board”...

Parliament Facing Brexit Decisions, More Drama, Deadline

Parliament Facing Brexit Decisions, More Drama, Deadline

After months of Brexit deadlock, this is it: decision time. At least for now.   With Britain scheduled to leave...

AP Explains: What Facebook’s ‘Privacy Vision’ Really Means

AP Explains: What Facebook’s ‘Privacy Vision’ Really Means

Mark Zuckerberg’s abrupt Wednesday declaration of a new “privacy vision” for social networking was for many people a sort of...

Eavesdropping on Rare Birds

Eavesdropping on Rare Birds

In a technology that’s been heralded as a breakthrough in conservation, remote recording devices are ‘eavesdropping’ on one of the...

Geneticists Help Investigators Solve Cold Cases

Geneticists Help Investigators Solve Cold Cases

U.S. scientists say they are using a unique method of analyzing DNA and researching genealogy to help investigators solve decades-old...

Powell: Fed Sticks With ‘Wait-and-See’ Approach on Rate Hikes

Powell: Fed Sticks With ‘Wait-and-See’ Approach on Rate Hikes

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said Friday that the healthy U.S. economy and low inflation are allowing the central bank...

US Adds Just 20K Jobs; Unemployment Dips

US Adds Just 20K Jobs; Unemployment Dips

Hiring tumbled in February, with U.S. employers adding just 20,000 jobs, the smallest monthly gain in nearly a year and...

Trump: China Trade Deal Must Be ‘Very Good,’ or No Deal

Trump: China Trade Deal Must Be ‘Very Good,’ or No Deal

U.S. President Donald Trump says he will not sign a trade deal with China unless it is a “very good...

Warren: Tech Giants Have `Too Much Power,’ Need Breakup

Warren: Tech Giants Have `Too Much Power,’ Need Breakup

Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren says the technology industry is too heavily concentrated among the biggest companies and she has...

SpaceX Crew Capsule Leaves International Space Station

SpaceX Crew Capsule Leaves International Space Station

The SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule has undocked from the International Space Station. The Dragon pulled away from the station early...

Longest Bull Market Looks to Keep Going

Longest Bull Market Looks to Keep Going

Wall Street has rewarded its most patient investors handsomely over the past 10 years. Is there more to come? The...

IMF Comments on ‘Complex’ Venezuela Situation

IMF Comments on ‘Complex’ Venezuela Situation

The International Monetary Fund on Thursday called Venezuela one of the most “complex situations” it had ever seen.    IMF...

Facebook’s Vision of Future? Looks Like Chinese App WeChat

Facebook’s Vision of Future? Looks Like Chinese App WeChat

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is taking the social media company in a new direction by focusing on messaging. Chinese tech...

Microsoft Says Iran-Linked Hackers Targeted Businesses

Microsoft Says Iran-Linked Hackers Targeted Businesses

Microsoft has detected cyberattacks linked to Iranian hackers that targeted thousands of people at more than 200 companies over the...

Facebook’s Vision of Future Looks a Lot Like China’s WeChat

Facebook’s Vision of Future Looks a Lot Like China’s WeChat

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is taking the social media company in a new direction by focusing on messaging. Chinese tech...

China’s Huawei Sues US Government Over Ban

China’s Huawei Sues US Government Over Ban

Chinese tech giant Huawei has sued the U.S. government, arguing that legislation Congress passed last year restricting its business in...

NASA Schedules Its First All-Female Spacewalk

NASA Schedules Its First All-Female Spacewalk

The U.S. space agency NASA has confirmed that it has scheduled a spacewalk by two female astronauts for the first...

Microsoft: Businesses Targeted by Iran-Linked Hackers

Microsoft: Businesses Targeted by Iran-Linked Hackers

Microsoft has detected cyberattacks linked to Iranian hackers that targeted thousands of people at more than 200 companies over the...

Zuckerberg Promises Privacy-Friendly Facebook, Sort of

Zuckerberg Promises Privacy-Friendly Facebook, Sort of

Mark Zuckerberg said Facebook will start to emphasize new privacy-shielding messaging services, a shift apparently intended to blunt both criticism...