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Uber Says IRS Probing its 2013-14 Tax Returns

Uber Says IRS Probing its 2013-14 Tax Returns

The U.S. Internal Revenue Service is auditing Uber Technologies’s taxes for 2013 and 2014 and the ride-hailing company expects unrecognized...

How Vietnam Will Avoid Currency ‘Manipulator’ Label, Save its Economy

How Vietnam Will Avoid Currency ‘Manipulator’ Label, Save its Economy

Vietnam is likely to make concessions to the United States so it can escape a U.S. watch list of possible...

US Report Urges Steps to Reduce Reliance on Foreign Critical Minerals

US Report Urges Steps to Reduce Reliance on Foreign Critical Minerals

The U.S. Commerce Department on Tuesday recommended urgent steps to boost domestic production of rare earths and other critical minerals,...

Trump: ‘More Likely’ Tariffs Will Be Imposed on Mexican Products

Trump: ‘More Likely’ Tariffs Will Be Imposed on Mexican Products

VOA’s Michael Bowman contributed to this story. U.S. President Donald Trump said Tuesday that it is “more likely” than not...

World’s Biggest Nutella Factory Blocked by French Workers

World’s Biggest Nutella Factory Blocked by French Workers

No more Nutella?! French workers are threatening as much, bringing the world’s biggest Nutella factory to a near-standstill in a...

Mexico Warns US Tariff Would Hurt Both Nations

Mexico Warns US Tariff Would Hurt Both Nations

Michael Bowman contributed to this report. Mexico warned Monday that President Donald Trump’s threatened new tariff on its exports to...

Pompeo Renews Warning to European Allies to Not Use Huawei for 5G

Pompeo Renews Warning to European Allies to Not Use Huawei for 5G

The United States is again calling on European allies to be careful of what it says are security risks posed...

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...