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New North American Trade Pact Signed

New North American Trade Pact Signed

The leaders of the United States, Mexico and Canada have signed a new North American trade deal, underpinning $1.2 trillion...

Rosenstein Calls for Tech Firms to Work With Law Enforcement

Rosenstein Calls for Tech Firms to Work With Law Enforcement

U.S. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein called on social media companies and technology firms Thursday to work with law enforcement...

Deutsche Bank Offices Raided in Money Laundering Probe

Deutsche Bank Offices Raided in Money Laundering Probe

Police raided six Deutsche Bank offices in and around Frankfurt on Thursday over money laundering allegations linked to the “Panama...

Trump Studying New Auto Tariffs After GM Restructuring

Trump Studying New Auto Tariffs After GM Restructuring

U.S. President Donald Trump said Wednesday that new auto tariffs were “being studied now,” asserting they could prevent job cuts...

Stocks Leap as Fed Chief Hints Interest Rate Increases May Taper Off

Stocks Leap as Fed Chief Hints Interest Rate Increases May Taper Off

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell boosted U.S. stock markets on Wednesday when he said interest rates were “just below” estimates...

Trump: US Tariffs on More Foreign Vehicles Would Have Prevented GM Plant Closures

Trump: US Tariffs on More Foreign Vehicles Would Have Prevented GM Plant Closures

U.S. President Donald Trump touted the use of U.S. tariffs on foreign small trucks Wednesday, saying their placement on other...

With An Eye on Past Problems, Facebook Expands Local Feature

With An Eye on Past Problems, Facebook Expands Local Feature

Facebook is cautiously expanding a feature that shows people local news and information, including missing-person alerts, road closures, crime reports...

Porsche Shows off New Edition of Mainstay 911 Sports Car

Porsche Shows off New Edition of Mainstay 911 Sports Car

Porsche says its future is in electric cars but for now it is rolling out a more powerful version of...

US Charges 2 Iranian Cybercrminals in Ransomware Scheme

US Charges 2 Iranian Cybercrminals in Ransomware Scheme

In the first case of its kind, the U.S. Justice Department announced charges Wednesday against two alleged Iranian cybercriminals who...

Ocean Shock: Building a Silicon Valley of the Sea

Ocean Shock: Building a Silicon Valley of the Sea

This is part of “Ocean Shock,” a Reuters series exploring climate change’s impact on sea creatures and the people who...

Ahead of G20, Trump Open to Deal with China

Ahead of G20, Trump Open to Deal with China

President Donald Trump and China’s leader Xi Jinping will meet to discuss trade issues on the sidelines of the G20...

Report: Trump Says ‘Not Even a Little Bit Happy’ with Fed’s Powell

Report: Trump Says ‘Not Even a Little Bit Happy’ with Fed’s Powell

U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday kept up his criticism of Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, saying rising interest rates...

Google Blocks Gender-Based Pronouns From New AI Tool

Google Blocks Gender-Based Pronouns From New AI Tool

Alphabet Inc’s Google in May introduced a slick feature for Gmail that automatically completes sentences for users as they type....

Uber Fined $1.2 Million For 2016 Data Breach

Uber Fined $1.2 Million For 2016 Data Breach

British and Dutch regulators have fined ride-hailing company Uber $1.2 million for what it said were inadequate security measures that...

Lawmakers Criticize Facebook’s Zuckerberg for UK Parliament No-Show

Lawmakers Criticize Facebook’s Zuckerberg for UK Parliament No-Show

Facebook came under fire on Tuesday from lawmakers from several countries who accused the firm of undermining democratic institutions and...

App Shows US, Canadian Commuters the Cleanest, Greenest Route Home

App Shows US, Canadian Commuters the Cleanest, Greenest Route Home

A mobile application launched in dozens of U.S. and Canadian cities on Monday measures the planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions of...

Experts: African Fishing Communities Face ‘Extinction’ as Blue Economy Grows

Experts: African Fishing Communities Face ‘Extinction’ as Blue Economy Grows

Fishing communities along Africa’s coastline are at a greater risk of extinction as countries eye oceans for tourism, industrial fishing...

Traditional Fisherman, Fish Shops Struggle on Kenyan Coast

Traditional Fisherman, Fish Shops Struggle on Kenyan Coast

Marine fisheries are one of the few economic activities present everywhere along the Kenyan coast – mostly using artisanal fishing...

Apple to Tutor Women in Tech in Bid to Diversify Industry

Apple to Tutor Women in Tech in Bid to Diversify Industry

Apple is launching a new program designed to address the technology industry’s scarcity of women in executive and computer programming...

Cameroon Gaming Stars Become Business Superheroes

Cameroon Gaming Stars Become Business Superheroes

One of Cameroon’s first video games studios and most successful digital startups is growing into a major player in the...

GM North America Plant Closures Disappoint Trump, Trudeau

GM North America Plant Closures Disappoint Trump, Trudeau

Both U.S. President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau are expressing disappointment with General Motors’ announcement it is...

Ocean Shock: Fishmeal Factories Plunder Africa

Ocean Shock: Fishmeal Factories Plunder Africa

This is part of “Ocean Shock,” a Reuters series exploring climate change’s impact on sea creatures and the people who...