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Apple to Preview New Software as It Makes Big Transition

Apple to Preview New Software as It Makes Big Transition

Apple will preview upcoming changes to its phone and computer software Monday as it undergoes a major transition intended to...

Mexican President Urges Oil Independence Amid US Trade Tensions

Mexican President Urges Oil Independence Amid US Trade Tensions

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador reiterated on Sunday the need for oil independence as his government said it would...

Google Server Trouble Snarls YouTube, Snapchat

Google Server Trouble Snarls YouTube, Snapchat

Congested Google servers in the eastern United States caused problems for users of Snapchat and YouTube on Sunday, with complaints...

China Blames Washington for Trade Talks Breakdown

China Blames Washington for Trade Talks Breakdown

Joyce Huang contributed to this report. China says Washington bears the “sole and entire responsibility” for the breakdown in trade...

Report: US Regulators Divide up Scrutiny of Google, Amazon

Report: US Regulators Divide up Scrutiny of Google, Amazon

U.S. antitrust regulators have divided oversight of Amazon.com Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google, putting Amazon under the watch of the...

Scientists Use Specialized Florida Lab for Magnetic Field Research

Scientists Use Specialized Florida Lab for Magnetic Field Research

Powerful magnets at a laboratory in Florida are allowing researchers to see the unseeable, understand the nature of things, and...

Momentum Toward Trade Deal Hits Trump Turbulence

Momentum Toward Trade Deal Hits Trump Turbulence

The Trump administration had taken steps in recent weeks to work with Democratic and Republican lawmakers to address concerns about...

Mexico’s President Hints Migration Controls Could Be Tightened

Mexico’s President Hints Migration Controls Could Be Tightened

VOA News Center associate producer Jesusemen Oni contributed reporting from Washington.  Mexico’s president suggested Saturday that his country could clamp down on...

Report: US to Launch Google Antitrust Inquiry

Report: US to Launch Google Antitrust Inquiry

The U.S. Justice Department is preparing an investigation of Alphabet Inc.’s Google to determine whether the tech giant broke antitrust...

Study: Kids Who Play Violent Video Games May Be More Likely to Handle Guns

Study: Kids Who Play Violent Video Games May Be More Likely to Handle Guns

Children who either played or watched a video game that included gun violence were more likely afterward to handle a...

Energy Secretary: US Aims to Make Fossil Fuels Cleaner 

Energy Secretary: US Aims to Make Fossil Fuels Cleaner 

The Trump administration is committed to making fossil fuels cleaner rather than imposing “draconian” regulations on coal and oil, U.S....

IMF Denies Pressuring Venezuela to Release Economic Data

IMF Denies Pressuring Venezuela to Release Economic Data

The International Monetary Fund said on Thursday it had not pressured Venezuela to release economic indicators after years of silence,...

Wall Street Slump Continues on U.S.-China Trade Uncertainty

Wall Street Slump Continues on U.S.-China Trade Uncertainty

U.S. stocks lost ground again on Thursday, as conflicting comments on trade talks from President Donald Trump and Beijing  reinforced...

Trump: China Maybe Regrets Backtracking on Trade Provisions

Trump: China Maybe Regrets Backtracking on Trade Provisions

President Donald Trump said Thursday he still believes China “would love to make” a new trade deal with the United...

Telecoms Giant EE Launches Britain’s First 5G Services

Telecoms Giant EE Launches Britain’s First 5G Services

British mobile phone operator EE on Thursday became the first in the country to launch a high-speed 5G service, but...

Should Facebook Delete Fake Pelosi Video?

Should Facebook Delete Fake Pelosi Video?

When a doctored video of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi — one altered to show the Democratic leader slurring her words...

Fox Host, Chinese State TV Anchor Face Off Over Trade War

Fox Host, Chinese State TV Anchor Face Off Over Trade War

A Chinese state TV anchor and a host from Fox Business, whose sparring over the U.S.-China trade war has been...

Pro-China Policies Unlikely in Australia, India After Recent Elections

Pro-China Policies Unlikely in Australia, India After Recent Elections

In recent weeks, Australia and India have re-elected incumbent prime ministers. These Asia-Pacific countries, who have a difficult relationship with...

Drought Forces Water Bans in Sydney

Drought Forces Water Bans in Sydney

Water restrictions are to be imposed in Sydney, Australia’s biggest city, for the first time in almost a decade because...

How One Pollution-Weary Asian Island Adopted Electric Vehicles

How One Pollution-Weary Asian Island Adopted Electric Vehicles

Electric vehicles have struggled to gain mass appeal in much of the world despite the fanfare surrounding Tesla Motors, the...

US Treasury Says 9 Trade Partners Deserve Scrutiny Over Currency Practices

US Treasury Says 9 Trade Partners Deserve Scrutiny Over Currency Practices

The Trump administration said on Tuesday that no major trading partner met its currency manipulation criteria but nine countries, including...

MacKenzie Bezos Pledges to Give Away Half Her Fortune

MacKenzie Bezos Pledges to Give Away Half Her Fortune

MacKenzie Bezos, who just months ago divorced the world’s richest man, has pledged to give away half her fortune to...