Customers walk into an Apple Store after Apple's new iPhone XS and XS Max went on sale in Beijing, China September 21, 2018. REUTERS/Jason Lee (Reuters) - Apple Inc (AAPL.O) on Tuesday is expected to unveil updates to its Mac computers and iPads that include facial recognition features that have been available in the iPhone…
President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order to end what he called the "ridiculous" practice of extending citizenship to children of unauthorized immigrants born in the US. "It was always told to me that you needed a constitutional amendment," to end the practice called "birthright citizenship," Trump told Axios's Jonathan Swan. "Guess what?…
BEFORE SETTING the budget each year, Britain’s chancellor of the exchequer is given a revised set of fiscal forecasts by the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), the official fiscal watchdog. In recent years the chancellor has looked through his fingers as he turned the pages: time and again since the financial crisis of 2008, Britain’s…
BERLIN — Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany on Monday took her first concrete steps to move away from political life, saying she would give up leadership of her conservative party while vowing to finish out her term as chancellor until 2021. Ms. Merkel made her announcement, in a meeting of conservative leaders, after two disastrous…
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionSanders: 'The President adores Jewish Americans as part of his own family' The White House has angrily rejected suggestions President Donald Trump's rhetoric could be to blame for a mass shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue.Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said on Monday it was "outrageous" to suggest that…
90% of kids breathe polluted air. A new World Health Organization (WHO) report finds that air pollution afflicts 90% of children around the world and contributes to 600,000 child deaths annually. Unsurprisingly, the numbers are far more dire in developing nations, where 98% of children under the age of 5 are exposed to more pollutants than…
Here's an official Bolt press picture from Chevy. On Friday, General Motors wrote to the Trump Administration in support of a national zero-emissions vehicle (ZEV) program, which would require seven percent of automakers' sales to be zero-emissions by 2021. That percentage would increase by two percent per year until reaching 25 percent in 2030. The…
(Reuters) - A former male stripper and part-time pizza deliveryman suspected of mailing at least 14 pipe bombs to some of U.S. President Donald Trump’s leading critics, including former president Barack Obama, was due in federal court in Miami, Monday. Cesar Altieri Sayoc appears in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S. in this August 31, 2005 handout booking…
IBM will pay $190 per share for the software company, which it described as the world's leading provider of open source cloud software, a more than 60% premium to Red Hat's closing stock price of $116.68 on Friday. Shares traded upwards of $175 in June, but disappointing earnings combined with a volatile market had seen…
THERE is nothing remarkable about the fact that America will go to the polls next month with mass murder hanging over it. It is a first-world country with a third-world gun-death rate. Nor is it unusual that the killing of 11 people in a synagogue in Pittsburgh on October 27th was instantly politicised. One party…
