President Donald Trump ordered the State Department to cut funding for Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador this weekend in retaliation for the recent influx of migrants from these nations, reversing a longstanding policy that says aid helps abate immigration. “We’re giving them $500 million,” Trump told reporters on Friday, claiming without evidence that the governments…
Flights at US airports across the country are delayed because of an IT failure affecting at least five airlines, the FAA has said. Southwest Airlines, Delta, United Airlines, JetBlue, and Alaska Air are affected, and delays are expected, the authority told CBS. American Airlines also said it had been affected, and that their passengers will…
ROMANIAN POLITICS is, by and large, sordid and corrupt. Party barons distribute jobs and public contracts. Oligarchs who own television stations use them as propaganda machines to destroy their opponents’ reputations, or to get cronies elected. Honest politicians such as Klaus Iohannis, the president, and those in the reform-minded Save Romania Union (USR) party are…
The ties between Russia and the Central African Republic have drawn particular attention in the West. The two countries signed a military cooperation agreement last year, and Wagner Group mercenaries began showing up in Central African Republic. “Russia has bolstered its influence with increased military cooperation including donations of arms, with which it has gained…
European-listed tech giants are so scarce they are set to be trumped in size by a newcomer that hasn’t decided what to call itself yet. African conglomerate Naspers Ltd. revealed this week that it plans to list a portfolio that includes a range of tech investments, from food delivery to online platforms for second-hand goods.…
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is calling for more outside regulation in several areas in which the social media site has run into problems over the past few years: harmful content, election integrity, privacy and data portability. In an opinion piece Saturday in The Washington Post, Zuckerberg says governments and regulators rather than private companies like…
MANY DEMOCRATS are dismayed by Robert Mueller’s failure to take down the president. Yet they have a consolatory new hate figure in the form of William Barr, who began his second spell as attorney-general last month. A grandfatherly 68-year-old, who first presided over the Justice Department for George H.W. Bush, Mr Barr has been castigated…
Want climate news in your inbox? Sign up here for Climate Fwd:, our email newsletter. WASHINGTON — In a major legal blow to President Trump’s push to expand offshore oil and gas development, a federal judge ruled that an executive order by Mr. Trump that lifted an Obama-era ban on oil and gas drilling in…
Is Daylight Saving Time annoying? Millions of Germans say, ja. The notoriously time-conscious nation is behind a new initiative from the European Parliament to end the practice of pushing clocks forward by one hour in the spring (which will occur this Sunday in Europe), and back by one hour in the fall. On Tuesday, the…
Old Facebook posts by Mark Zuckerberg have disappeared — obscuring details about core moments in Facebook's history. On multiple occassions, years-old public posts made by the 34-year-old billionaire chief executive that were previously public and reported on by news outlets at the time have since vanished, Business Insider has found. That includes all of the…
