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Sprint, T-Mobile End Merger Talks

Sprint, T-Mobile End Merger Talks

Wireless carriers Sprint and T-Mobile called off a potential merger, saying the companies couldn’t come to an agreement that would...

Trump Urges Saudi Arabia To List Shares of World’s Largest Oil Producer on NYSE

Trump Urges Saudi Arabia To List Shares of World’s Largest Oil Producer on NYSE

U.S. President Donald Trump urged Saudi Arabia Saturday to list its state-owned oil company on the New York Stock Exchange...

Saudi Crown Prince Tackles Extremism on the Road to Social, Economic Reform

Saudi Crown Prince Tackles Extremism on the Road to Social, Economic Reform

The recent flurry of social and economic reform coming out of Saudi Arabia has left some Saudis ecstatic, others more...

China Border Traders Hit Hard by North Korea Sanctions

China Border Traders Hit Hard by North Korea Sanctions

For Yu Kaiguang, harsh new United Nations sanctions on North Korea are a disaster. The trader in the Chinese border...

New Exhibit Shows How Tech Intrudes on Our Lives

New Exhibit Shows How Tech Intrudes on Our Lives

The extent to which technology is always watching us is on stark display at a new London exhibit called “The...

California Asks US for $7.4 Billion for Wildfire Rebuilding

California Asks US for $7.4 Billion for Wildfire Rebuilding

California Gov. Jerry Brown and lawmakers asked the U.S. government Friday for $7.4 billion to help rebuild after a cluster...

Largest US Port Complex Passes Plan to Reach Zero Emissions

Largest US Port Complex Passes Plan to Reach Zero Emissions

The largest port complex in the nation has set goals to drastically reduce air pollution over the next several decades....

Nigeria Militants End Oil Hub Cease-fire

Nigeria Militants End Oil Hub Cease-fire

A Nigerian militant group whose attacks on energy facilities in the Niger Delta last year helped push Africa’s biggest economy...

Afghanistan Blocks Social Media Services

Afghanistan Blocks Social Media Services

Authorities in Afghanistan are temporarily blocking WhatsApp and Telegram social media services in the country, citing security concerns, officials confirmed...

Researchers Working for the End of the Internal Combustion Automobile

Researchers Working for the End of the Internal Combustion Automobile

Hybrid cars are slowly working their way into car markets, and there are waiting lists for Elon Musk’s new all-electric...

Trump Names Jerome Powell New Fed Chief

Trump Names Jerome Powell New Fed Chief

President Donald Trump is making his mark on the US Federal Reserve, naming former investment manager and central bank governor...

Venezuela Looks to Restructure Debt, but Default Looms

Venezuela Looks to Restructure Debt, but Default Looms

Venezuela on Thursday announced plans to restructure its burgeoning foreign debt, a move that may lead to a default by...

Officials Disagree on Puerto Rico Power Restoration Timeline

Officials Disagree on Puerto Rico Power Restoration Timeline

Officials in the U.S. and Puerto Rico gave differing views Thursday on when power will be fully restored to the...

Twitter Employee, on Last Day, Deactivates Trump Account

Twitter Employee, on Last Day, Deactivates Trump Account

U.S. President Donald Trump’s @realdonaldtrump Twitter account was deactivated by a Twitter Inc employee whose last day at the company...

Twitter Employee, on Their Last Day, Deactivates Trump Account

Twitter Employee, on Their Last Day, Deactivates Trump Account

U.S. President Donald Trump’s @realdonaldtrump Twitter account was deactivated by a Twitter Inc employee whose last day at the company...

Mexico City Updates 911 App to Push Quake Alerts to Phones

Mexico City Updates 911 App to Push Quake Alerts to Phones

Mexico City has updated its 911 emergency app to send earthquake alerts to residents’ smartphones following last month’s magnitude 7.1...

Facebook Pressured to Notify People Who Saw Russian Posts

Facebook Pressured to Notify People Who Saw Russian Posts

Facebook received several tongue-lashings during U.S. congressional hearings this week, but the world’s largest social network also got an assignment:...

Google, AutoNation Partner on Self-driving Car Program

Google, AutoNation Partner on Self-driving Car Program

Google is partnering with AutoNation, the country’s largest auto dealership chain, in its push to build a self-driving car. AutoNation...

Russia Hackers Had Targets Worldwide, Beyond US Election

Russia Hackers Had Targets Worldwide, Beyond US Election

The hackers who upended the U.S. presidential election had ambitions well beyond Hillary Clinton’s campaign, targeting the emails of Ukrainian...

Social Media Companies Face Tough Congressional Questions on Russian Election Interference

Social Media Companies Face Tough Congressional Questions on Russian Election Interference

Facebook, Twitter and Google executives testified in public before Senate and House investigations into Russian election interference for the first...

On Climate Change, It’s Trump vs Markets

On Climate Change, It’s Trump vs Markets

Though the Trump administration has taken steps to undo regulations aimed at cutting greenhouse gas emissions, experts say economic forces...

Malaysia Investigating Reported Leak of 46 Million Mobile Users Data

Malaysia Investigating Reported Leak of 46 Million Mobile Users Data

Malaysia is investigating an alleged attempt to sell the data of more than 46 million mobile phone subscribers online after...