Stocks were hit hard Tuesday amid fears of a slowing global economy and as the US reportedly called off trade talks with China. On Monday, China posted its slowest economic growth in a decade and South Korea saw a big drop in exports. Also on Monday, the International Monetary Fund downgraded its global growth outlook.…
JOSEPH KABILA’S machinations to keep control of the Democratic Republic of Congo have crumbled one by one. But his last desperate gamble—handing power to the friendly leader of an opposition party—is having a tad more success. In the early hours of January 20th, Congo’s constitutional court (stacked with government loyalists) ceremoniously ruled that a presidential…
Passengers on a United Airlines plane headed from Newark, New Jersey to Hong Kong got stranded on a frigidly cold plane in Canada for more than 14 hours this weekend when the flight had to make an emergency landing. After leaving Newark on Saturday, Flight 179 was diverted to Goose Bay Airport in the Canadian…
Alisha Marie didn't know she was going to take a break from YouTube until she broke down in tears in a Sweetgreen restaurant in LA. Marie, who uses her middle name as her professional surname, told INSIDER this was just three days before she uploaded a video called "This Isn't Goodbye" to her 8 million…
“GENTLEMEN, NEVER forget that for France there can be no other alternative but friendship with Germany.” Half a century after Charles de Gaulle uttered these words to his ministers, the relationship between France and Germany remains the most important in Europe: an emblem of peace and reconciliation, and the foundation stone of European integration. Get…
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg on Sunday addressed the company’s mistakes and addressed the hope to earn back Facebook users’ trust after a string of controversies involving user privacy. “We need to stop abuse more quickly and we need to do better to protect people’s data,” Sandberg said at the DLD conference in Munich, as CNBC…
President Donald Trump went on a Twitter tear against Nancy Pelosi Sunday morning, which ended with him saying he was "still thinking" about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's request to postpone his State of the Union speech or submit it in writing. "Nancy, I am still thinking about the State of the Union speech, there are…
IN MOST DEMOCRACIES, one side needs at least a plurality of the votes to form a government. Not so in Sweden, a polite country with a system of “negative parliamentarianism”: a candidate can become prime minister so long as an absolute majority of the Riksdag, the country’s parliament, does not explicitly object. The result can…
Dumpster diving. A huge trove of data spilled onto the web and has been helpfully uploaded to HaveIBeenPwned, a leaked password-checking database for consumers, by security researcher Troy Hunt, the site’s proprietor. The leak, dubbed “Collection #1,” contains nearly 773 million unique email addresses and more than 21 million unique passwords—making it Hunt’s largest-ever upload. It’s unclear…
CHAMPLAIN, NY — Blaise Kidasharira stepped out of a taxi cab onto a road marked "DEAD END." It was barely dawn, the air was freezing, and he was carrying two small bags and one keychain. Dangling from the rings was a tiny photograph of his two young daughters along with his wife, who died nearly…
