SUFFERING THE largest parliamentary defeat in modern history would give most prime ministers pause for thought. Not Theresa May. On January 21st she presented the House of Commons with her “Plan B” for Brexit. It turned out to be much the same as the Plan A which they had so decisively thrown out the week…
Samsung announced Sunday that it will start using eco-friendly materials to replace plastic packaging materials. The company said it will replace the plastic packaging currently used for products and accessories like phones and tablets with materials such as recycled/bio-based plastics and paper during the start of 2019. “To revamp product packaging, Samsung Electronics has formed…
President Donald Trump tweeted a misleading statistic Sunday in his latest claim about rampant voter fraud. Apparently referencing statistics that had been discussed on the Fox News show "Fox & Friends," Trump tweeted the numbers involved in a recent initiative by the Texas secretary of state to investigate the legal status of past voters based…
IN A RESTAURANT in the backstreets of Beijing, 12 Pakistanis and Afghans studying at the China University of Communications tell stories of their arrival in China. No one came to pick them up; none of them spoke a word of Chinese. They have plenty of tales of getting lost, disoriented and ripped off by taxi…
Grüezi from the snow-coated Swiss Alps, in whose fir-studded, canvas blanc landscape the World Economic Forum recently transpired. An inescapable theme at this year’s summit was data privacy. The topic happens, ironically, to play counterpoint to another central theme—that datavore dubbed “artificial intelligence,” as Adam Lashinsky, this newsletter’s regular, weekday author, noted in an earlier…
The longest US government shutdown in history has ended — for now. President Donald Trump signed a bill passed by Congress on Friday night that temporarily funds and reopens government agencies until February 15. Trump announced his support for the bill earlier Friday in a speech at the White House. Trump's support cleared the way…
SOME SAID it was the disruption of some flights to LaGuardia airport early on January 25th that persuaded him. The air-traffic controllers at Donald Trump’s local airport—unpaid after 35 days of the government shutdown—had voted with their feet. Yet the great climb-down the president affected later in the day had in reality been on the…
A year and a half after I was kicked out of Venezuela, I returned to find out how Venezuelans are holding on as the country falls apart and inflation makes buying a single cup of coffee nearly impossible.
The federal agents arrived before dawn, surrounding Roger Stone’s waterfront Florida home and then pounding on his front door. “FBI. Open the door!” the agents shouted. “FBI warrant!” It was a moment that Stone, the cable-news flame-thrower and self-described political dirty trickster, had long predicted and even ridiculed. It nonetheless arrived with undeniable force and…
The government shutdown is starting to have a very real effect on flights throughout the US. Staffing shortages at the Federal Aviation Administration, the US's top air-traffic regulator, caused delays and rerouting at some of the country's biggest airports on Friday morning, including Philadelphia, Atlanta, DC, and New York City, according to the administration's website.…
