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Tesla Appoints Independent Directors to Weigh Any Deal

Tesla Appoints Independent Directors to Weigh Any Deal

Tesla’s board named a special committee of three directors on Tuesday to evaluate possibly taking the electric carmaker private, although...

Survey: Vienna Tops Melbourne as World’s Most Liveable City

Survey: Vienna Tops Melbourne as World’s Most Liveable City

Vienna has dislodged Melbourne for the first time at the top of the Economist Intelligence Unit’s Global Liveability Index, strengthening...

Maduro: Venezuela Gasoline Prices Should Rise to International Levels

Maduro: Venezuela Gasoline Prices Should Rise to International Levels

Venezuela’s heavily subsidized domestic gasoline prices should rise to international levels to avoid billions of dollars in annual losses due...

Mexico’s Lopez Obrador Pledges More Than $11B for Refineries

Mexico’s Lopez Obrador Pledges More Than $11B for Refineries

Mexican President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Monday his administration will invest more than $11 billion to boost refining...

World’s First Commercial 3D-Printed Concrete Homes Planned

World’s First Commercial 3D-Printed Concrete Homes Planned

The world will soon have its first batch of commercially available 3D-printed concrete homes. A consortium of the Dutch municipality...

World’s First Commercial 3-D-Printed Concrete Homes Planned

World’s First Commercial 3-D-Printed Concrete Homes Planned

The world will soon have its first batch of commercially available 3-D-printed concrete homes. A consortium of the Dutch municipality...

Tesla’s Slow Disclosure Raises Governance, Social Media Concerns

Tesla’s Slow Disclosure Raises Governance, Social Media Concerns

Tesla’s handling of Chief Executive Elon Musk’s proposal to take the carmaker private and its failure to promptly file a...

How to Find and Delete Where Google Knows You’ve Been

How to Find and Delete Where Google Knows You’ve Been

Even if you have “Location History” off, Google often stores your precise location. Here’s how to delete those markers and...

Khamenei: Mismanagement More Harmful Than US Sanctions

Khamenei: Mismanagement More Harmful Than US Sanctions

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Monday government mismanagement has hurt Iran’s economy more than U.S. sanctions. U.S. President...

Turkey Announces ‘Action Plan’ to Ease Market Concerns

Turkey Announces ‘Action Plan’ to Ease Market Concerns

Asian and European markets were rattled by the Turkish lira’s record low of 7.24 to the dollar overnight. The markets...

Washington DC Reconsiders Cashless Approach

Washington DC Reconsiders Cashless Approach

American businesses have long been preparing for a cashless economy as the use of credit and debit cards, instead of...

‘Everybody Should See This’: Perseids Light up Bosnian Sky

‘Everybody Should See This’: Perseids Light up Bosnian Sky

A meteor shower lit up the skies above eastern Bosnia Saturday night, giving star gazers a rare opportunity to see...

NASA Sends Parker Solar Probe to ‘Go Touch the Sun’

NASA Sends Parker Solar Probe to ‘Go Touch the Sun’

A NASA spacecraft rocketed toward the sun Sunday on an unprecedented quest to get closer to our star than anything...

Iran: French Firm Out of South Pars Gas Project, China’s Is In

Iran: French Firm Out of South Pars Gas Project, China’s Is In

Iran’s official IRNA news agency is reporting that China’s state-owned petroleum corporation has taken a majority share of the country’s...

France Fumes at Proposed Post-Brexit EU Sea Trade Links

France Fumes at Proposed Post-Brexit EU Sea Trade Links

France deems unacceptable a European Commission proposal to exclude French ports from a rerouting of a strategic trade corridor between Ireland and mainland...

Economy Doing Well, But Not All Americans See It That Way

Economy Doing Well, But Not All Americans See It That Way

By most indicators, the U.S. economy is doing well. An achievement that President Donald Trump has boasted about on many...

Turkish Lira Plummets; Erdogan Pledges Economic War 

Turkish Lira Plummets; Erdogan Pledges Economic War 

The White House issued a proclamation Friday evening officially announcing the doubling of steel tariffs on Turkey, slated to go...

Russia Not Expected to Stand Up for Tanking Ruble Amid Sanctions

Russia Not Expected to Stand Up for Tanking Ruble Amid Sanctions

A threat of more U.S. sanctions has sent the ruble tumbling to its weakest since mid-2016 but authorities are not...

Samsung’s New Phone Shows How Hardware Innovation Has Slowed

Samsung’s New Phone Shows How Hardware Innovation Has Slowed

Samsung’s new smartphone illustrates the limits of innovation at time when hardware advances have slowed. The new phone, the Galaxy...

Drones Can Help Farmers Grow Healthier and More Abundant Crops

Drones Can Help Farmers Grow Healthier and More Abundant Crops

Unmanned aerial vehicles, commonly referred to as drones, can become an important tool for farmers around the world within the...

Kids + Screen Time = Dry Eyes

Kids + Screen Time = Dry Eyes

Kids are addicted to cell phones, tablets … anything with an electronic screen. The problem is, it’s bad for their...

Chinese Media Say US Tariff Moves Reflect ‘Mobster Mentality’

Chinese Media Say US Tariff Moves Reflect ‘Mobster Mentality’

Chinese state media on Thursday accused the United States of a “mobster mentality” in its move to implement additional tariffs on Chinese...