Tech Giants — Alphabet has $117 billion in cash on hand. Samuel Axon - Aug 5, 2019 11:11 pm UTC Google co-founder Larry Page is now CEO of Alphabet.You've probably heard it before: Apple has more money in the bank than any other corporation on Earth, thanks to huge profit margins on its products and…
TOKYO (Reuters) - Global stocks extended their already substantial losses and the offshore yuan hit an all-time low on Tuesday after Washington designated Beijing a currency manipulator in a rapid escalation of the U.S.-China trade war. FILE PHOTO: Men walk past in front of an electric screen showing Japan's Nikkei share average outside a brokerage…
An attack on a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas left 20 dead.Army Specialist Glendon Oakley, who is being hailed as a hero after he ran towards the gunshots and pulled several children to safety, says he is "focused on the kids that I could not get and the families that were lost".Children's baseball coaches…
Trust and funding — General trust, but partisan skepticism, and worries about conflicts of interest. John Timmer - Aug 4, 2019 2:00 pm UTC Yesterday, the Pew Research Center released an analysis of polling results on Americans' views of science. In general, the poll was good news for the research community, showing a gradual-but-steady rise…
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Asian shares extended their losses on Monday as a sharp escalation in the Sino-U.S. trade war kept finiancial markets on edge, while the Japanese yen and bonds held near recent peaks as nervous investors stuck with perceived safe havens. FILE PHOTO: A woman walks past an electronic board showing the stock market…
Police are responding to reports of a mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio, where a number of people are thought to have been hit. First reports came in at about 01:00 local time (05:00 GMT) of a shooting outside a bar in the Oregon district of the city. Casualties have been taken to a number of…
You come here often? — Not to sound like a broken record, but Europe broke records again. Scott K. Johnson - Aug 3, 2019 7:56 pm UTC Enlarge / Satellite-estimated surface temperatures for July 25, 2019.It’s becoming standard procedure that extreme weather events will quickly be analyzed by the World Weather Attribution team—a group of…
EL PASO, Tx. (Reuters) - A gunman armed with a rifle killed 20 people at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, on Saturday and wounded more than two dozen before being arrested, authorities said, after the latest U.S. mass shooting sent panicked shoppers fleeing. Many of those in the busy store were buying back-to-school supplies…
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionPuerto Ricans celebrate Governor Ricardo Rosselló's political demise A new governor has been sworn into office in Puerto Rico, bringing fresh controversy to the US territory.Pedro Pierluisi is the handpicked successor of Ricardo Rosselló, who resigned amid mass protests over a leaked chat in which he and…
The secret to success is.... Satan? — "My mom and her butt buddies are booty-calling Baphomet." Jennifer Ouellette - Aug 2, 2019 11:48 pm UTC Rebecca Romijn stars as a high society devotee of the devil in need of a virgin sacrifice in Satanic Panic.A pizza delivery girl runs afoul of a wealthy socialite and…
