Facebook will ban content that supports white nationalism and separatism as it tries clean up its social network. The company, which announced the new policy on Wednesday, has come under pressure for allowing hate groups to share content on its network. Most recently, the social network faced intense criticism for recently hosting a livestream of…
AP Images The US's goods and services trade deficit fell by about 15% in January. The decrease was largely thanks to a narrower gap with China. Economists say that could be in part due to slowing front-loading and fading tax cuts. The gap between American products shipped abroad and goods the US imports narrowed more…
IT WAS NOTHING like Steve Jobs introducing the iPhone. But the two-hour show on March 25th put on by Tim Cook, Jobs’s less histrionic successor as boss of Apple, may nevertheless be remembered as a milestone for the company—and the entertainment industry. Mr Cook did not announce the latest sleek gadget. Instead, he unveiled a suite of products and services, including video streaming,…
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration’s decision to ask a federal appeals court to invalidate the Affordable Care Act has given House Democrats a new opening to pursue what they see as a winning political strategy: moving past talk of impeachment to put kitchen-table issues like health care front and center. The notice to the court,…
Attorney General William Barr’s four-page letter to Congress made clear that Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s 22-month investigation into Russian election interference was exhaustive—generating 500 search warrants, more than 2,800 subpoenas and interviews of 500 witnesses. Barr delivered a verdict on it in 48 hours, leaving many questions unanswered. Many of those could be revealed when…
The European Parliament on Tuesday passed legislation massively tightening copyright laws on the internet — a move that has been vocally opposed by tech companies, academics, and consumers. The original draft of the new laws was sent back to the drawing board in July for being too sweeping. A softened version was then drawn up…
“IT WAS a complete and total exoneration!” crowed Donald Trump on March 24th, shortly after his attorney-general released a four-page summary of Robert Mueller’s findings. “This was an illegal takedown that failed.” The president’s euphoria was understandable. After spending 22 months investigating the Russian campaign to rig the 2016 election in Mr Trump’s favour, the…
Democrats struggled to find a path ahead, with some urging the party to turn its attention to policy differences with Mr. Trump. Speaker Nancy Pelosi has credited such a strategy with fueling last year’s midterm election victories and said she opposed trying to impeach the president “unless there’s something so compelling and overwhelming and bipartisan.”…
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has been cutting deals in recent months with cryptocurrency projects it has deemed to be in violation of the so-called Howey test, a rule-of-thumb for determining whether an asset qualifies as a security and, therefore, must be registered with the agency. I spoke with some of the entrepreneurs who…
Almost a year before turning in his report on Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election and President Donald Trump's campaign, Special Counsel Robert Mueller warned that much of the coverage of his probe wasn't accurate. A spokesman for Mueller's office issued a statement in April 2018 that said "many" stories about his investigation "have…
