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Indonesia Battles Currency Woes

Indonesia Battles Currency Woes

Policymakers in Indonesia are grappling to deal with a weakened currency, the rupiah, which was valued at just 14,930 per...

13-Year-Old Kurdish-American Boy Becomes Entrepreneur

13-Year-Old Kurdish-American Boy Becomes Entrepreneur

United States is a land of opportunity. We have all heard this saying, but what does it mean and how...

Study: US Teens Prefer Remote Chats to Face-to-Face Meetings

Study: US Teens Prefer Remote Chats to Face-to-Face Meetings

American teenagers are starting to prefer communicating via text instead of meeting face-to-face, according to a study published Monday by...

Japan’s Bid to End Whaling Ban is Top Issue at Conference

Japan’s Bid to End Whaling Ban is Top Issue at Conference

Japan will once again try to get the international ban on whale hunting overturned at the global conference of the...

Canada’s Freeland to Hold NAFTA Talks Tuesday as Time Runs Short

Canada’s Freeland to Hold NAFTA Talks Tuesday as Time Runs Short

Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland will meet U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer in Washington on Tuesday for another round of...

Survey: Number of Americans Getting News on Social Media Slows

Survey: Number of Americans Getting News on Social Media Slows

About two-thirds of American adults say they occasionally get their news from social media, according to a survey released Monday...

Creditors Warn Greece on Debt Relief as Inspectors Return

Creditors Warn Greece on Debt Relief as Inspectors Return

Greece’s lead creditor warned the country on Monday not to stray from reforms agreed upon before the end of its...

Zimbabwe Finance Minister: Reviving Economy is ‘Herculean’ Task

Zimbabwe Finance Minister: Reviving Economy is ‘Herculean’ Task

Zimbabwe’s new finance minister has described his task of reviving the country’s moribund economy as extraordinarily difficult, but he is...

Tiwa the Talking Monkey Uses Tech to Help Revive Nigerian Folk Tales

Tiwa the Talking Monkey Uses Tech to Help Revive Nigerian Folk Tales

A stuffed toy monkey called Tiwa holds some of Nigeria’s oldest folk tales and is helping to revive the traditional...

Ford Says It Will Not Move Small Car Production from China to US

Ford Says It Will Not Move Small Car Production from China to US

Ford says it has no plans to move production of a small car from China to the United States despite...

Flush From End of Bailout, Greek PM Announces Tax Breaks

Flush From End of Bailout, Greek PM Announces Tax Breaks

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Saturday unveiled plans for tax cuts and pledged spending to heal years of painful austerity, less than...

Trump: Apple Can Avoid Tariffs by Shifting Production to US

Trump: Apple Can Avoid Tariffs by Shifting Production to US

President Donald Trump concedes that some Apple Inc. products may become more expensive if his administration imposes “massive” additional tariffs...

Trump Says US, Japan Have Begun Talks on Trade

Trump Says US, Japan Have Begun Talks on Trade

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday the United States and Japan have begun discussion over trade, saying that Tokyo...

China’s August Trade Surplus With US Hits Record $31 Billion

China’s August Trade Surplus With US Hits Record $31 Billion

China’s trade surplus with the United States reached a record $31 billion in August, despite hefty tariffs recently imposed on...

Converting Body Heat Into Electricity to Power Sensors

Converting Body Heat Into Electricity to Power Sensors

The number of wearable technologies that use sensors as medical tools to track a person’s well-being – is on the...

Body Heat Converted Into Electricity Powers Health Sensors

Body Heat Converted Into Electricity Powers Health Sensors

There has been an increasing number of wearable technologies that have health sensors as medical tools to track a person’s...

Trump Threatens to Tax Virtually All Chinese Imports to US

Trump Threatens to Tax Virtually All Chinese Imports to US

U.S. President Donald Trump is threatening to impose tariffs on another $267 billion worth Chinese imports, which would cover virtually...

Modest Premium Hikes Expected as ‘Obamacare’ Stabilizes

Modest Premium Hikes Expected as ‘Obamacare’ Stabilizes

Millions of people covered under the Affordable Care Act will see only modest premium increases next year, and some will...

US Adds Strong 201K Jobs; Unemployment Stays at 3.9 Percent

US Adds Strong 201K Jobs; Unemployment Stays at 3.9 Percent

Hiring picked up in August as U.S. employers added a strong 201,000 jobs, a sign of confidence that consumers and...

Twitter Bans Jones, ‘Infowars,’ Citing Abuse

Twitter Bans Jones, ‘Infowars,’ Citing Abuse

Twitter has permanently banned far-right media personality Alex Jones for violating its policy against “abusive behavior.” Jones, who is known...

How Artificial Intelligence is Powering the US Open

How Artificial Intelligence is Powering the US Open

Tennis fans have descended on New York to watch the world’s best players at the US Open — one of...

Facebook, Twitter, Step Up Defenses Ahead of Midterm Election

Facebook, Twitter, Step Up Defenses Ahead of Midterm Election

Facebook and Twitter executives defended their efforts to prevent Russian meddling in U.S. midterm elections before congressional panels Wednesday. The...