Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The USS Arlington will join the USS Abraham Lincoln in the Gulf The US is sending a Patriot missile-defence system to the Middle East amid escalating tensions with Iran.A warship, USS Arlington, with amphibious vehicles and aircraft on board, will also join the USS Abraham Lincoln strike group in…
Enlarge / FCC Chairman Ajit Pai speaking at a press conference on October 1, 2018, in Washington, DC. The Federal Communications Commission isn't punishing carriers for their horrible response to Hurricane Michael in Florida, despite a commission investigation finding that the carriers' mistakes prolonged outages caused by the hurricane. Mobile carriers' response to the hurricane…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Facebook Inc quickly rejected a call from co-founder Chris Hughes on Thursday to split the world’s largest social media company in three, while lawmakers urged the U.S. Justice Department to launch an antitrust investigation. Facebook has been under scrutiny from regulators around the world over data sharing practices as well as hate…
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionChinese Vice-Premier Liu He says raising tariffs is harmful "to China, to the United States and to the world" The US has more than doubled tariffs on $200bn (£153.7bn) worth of Chinese products, in a sharp escalation of the countries' damaging trade war.Tariffs on affected Chinese goods…
Enlarge / Today's deals include $30 off a Nintendo Switch, Google Pixel 3A gift card bundles, noise-cancelling headphones, and more. Ars TechnicaGreetings, Arsians! The Dealmaster is back with another round of deals to share. Today's list is headlined by the return of a deal on Anker's Soundcore Space NC, one of the few sub-$100 wireless…
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Occidental Petroleum chief executive Vicki Hollub was caught off guard when U.S. oil giant Chevron swooped in last month with a $33 billion offer to buy Anadarko Petroleum, the oil and gas exploration and production firm she had been wooing for nearly two years. FILE PHOTO: Vicki Hollub, President and CEO…
Image copyright EPA/KCNA Image caption North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un supervised last week's firings North Korea has fired two short-range missiles in its second weapons test in less than a week, the South Korean military says.The missiles fired from the north-western city of Kusong travelled 420km (260 miles) and 270km towards the east.The tests come…
Enlarge / Headquarters of ride-sharing technology company Uber in the South of Market (SoMa) neighborhood of San Francisco on October 13, 2017. Lyft and Uber drivers around the world are striking on Wednesday to protest low pay, arbitrary terminations, and other concerns. The protest comes just before Uber's debut as a publicly traded stock on…
(Reuters) - President Donald Trump is refusing to cooperate in numerous U.S. congressional probes of himself and his administration, taking a defiant stance that is likely to land him in protracted court fights with Democrats in the House of Representatives. Trump’s stonewalling has hardened since the mid-April release of a redacted report from Special Counsel…
Image copyright AFP Image caption The US has been ratcheting up the pressure on Iran over the past year Iran has suspended commitments under the 2015 international nuclear deal, a year after it was abandoned by the US.President Hassan Rouhani said he would keep enriched uranium stocks in the country rather than sell them abroad.He…
