Posts by Newsmaker

Ivanka Trump to Shutter Fashion Line, Focus on Government

Ivanka Trump to Shutter Fashion Line, Focus on Government

U.S. President Donald Trump’s oldest daughter, Ivanka Trump, is closing her fashion line to focus her energies on advising her...

Trump, Mexico Expect Progress in Stalled NAFTA Talks

Trump, Mexico Expect Progress in Stalled NAFTA Talks

U.S. President Donald Trump spoke warmly of Mexico’s incoming leftist president on Monday, saying he expected to get “something worked...

IMF: Venezuela’s Inflation on Track to Top 1 Million Percent

IMF: Venezuela’s Inflation on Track to Top 1 Million Percent

Inflation in Venezuela could top 1 million percent by year’s end as the country’s historic crisis deepens, the International Monetary...

Pakistani Engineering Students Develop Filtration Device To Create Clean, Safe, Water

Pakistani Engineering Students Develop Filtration Device To Create Clean, Safe, Water

Access to clean and drinkable water is challenging for residents in Lahore because the tap water in many parts of...

Trump Reviews ‘Made in America’ Products at White House

Trump Reviews ‘Made in America’ Products at White House

Checking out a speedboat, a fighter jet and a giant industrial magnet parked on the White House driveway, President Donald...

China Pivots to Europe for Technology Transfers

China Pivots to Europe for Technology Transfers

Amid escalating trade friction with the United States, China appears to be courting Europe to fill the gaps in providing...

Commission: EU’s Juncker Will not Bring Offer to Trump Trade Talks

Commission: EU’s Juncker Will not Bring Offer to Trump Trade Talks

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker will not arrive in the United States for talks with U.S. President Donald Trump with...

Fog May Help Quench World’s Thirst

Fog May Help Quench World’s Thirst

Two-thirds of the world’s population currently lives with water shortages at least part of the year, according to one estimate....

G-20 Ministers: Trade, Political Tensions Put Growth at Risk

G-20 Ministers: Trade, Political Tensions Put Growth at Risk

“Heightened trade and geopolitical tensions” are putting global economic growth at risk, G-20 finance ministers said after two days of...

Poll: British Reject May’s Brexit Plan, Some turn to Boris, Far Right

Poll: British Reject May’s Brexit Plan, Some turn to Boris, Far Right

Prime Minister Theresa May’s plans to leave the European Union are overwhelmingly opposed by the British public and more than...

Poll: British Reject May’s Brexit Plan, Some Turn to Johnson, Far Right

Poll: British Reject May’s Brexit Plan, Some Turn to Johnson, Far Right

Prime Minister Theresa May’s plans to leave the European Union are overwhelmingly opposed by the British public and more than...

German Industry: US Tariffs Risk Hurting US

German Industry: US Tariffs Risk Hurting US

German industry groups warned Sunday, ahead of a meeting between European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and U.S. President Donald Trump,...

Researchers Monitoring Utah’s Iconic Stone Arches

Researchers Monitoring Utah’s Iconic Stone Arches

The United States has some incredible natural geological features: towering mesas, tall spires of limestone rock, erupting geysers and gravity-defying...

Fiat Chrysler Names Jeep Boss to Replace Stricken CEO

Fiat Chrysler Names Jeep Boss to Replace Stricken CEO

Fiat Chrysler named on Saturday its Jeep division boss, Mike Manley, to take over immediately for Chief Executive Sergio Marchionne,...

Tariffs Will Hurt Economy, IMF Warns, as Trump Threatens More

Tariffs Will Hurt Economy, IMF Warns, as Trump Threatens More

The International Monetary Fund warned world economic leaders on Saturday that a recent wave of trade tariffs would significantly harm global growth,...

Iran Leader Backs Suggestion to Block Gulf Oil Exports if Own Sales Stopped

Iran Leader Backs Suggestion to Block Gulf Oil Exports if Own Sales Stopped

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday backed President Hassan Rouhani’s suggestion that Iran may block Gulf oil exports...

Facebook Suspends Another Analytics Firm

Facebook Suspends Another Analytics Firm

Facebook says it has suspended working with Boston-based analytics firm Crimson Hexagon until it can determine how the firm collects...

Fashion Industry Reinventing Itself by Embracing the Digital Age

Fashion Industry Reinventing Itself by Embracing the Digital Age

For years denim jeans have been finished in foreign factories where workers use manual and automated techniques such as scraping...

WhatsApp Makes Changes in India After Deadly Attacks

WhatsApp Makes Changes in India After Deadly Attacks

WhatsApp has announced changes for its 200 million users in India following the spread of viral messages via the app...

Report: North Korea Economy Shrank Sharply in 2017

Report: North Korea Economy Shrank Sharply in 2017

North Korea’s economy contracted at the sharpest rate in two decades in 2017, South Korea’s central bank estimated Friday, in...

Autonomous Boats Can Offer Help on the Water

Autonomous Boats Can Offer Help on the Water

If there can be driverless cars on the road, why not driverless boats on the water? Faith Lapidus has details...

China Boosts Liquidity as Trade War Threatens Economy

China Boosts Liquidity as Trade War Threatens Economy

Chinese policymakers are pumping more liquidity into the financial system and channeling credit to small- and medium-sized firms, and Beijing...