ATLANTA (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump touted progress in the fight against opioid abuse on Wednesday and promised to hold drugmakers accountable for their part in the crisis, a day after his administration brought its first related criminal charges against a major drug distributor and company executives. U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at the…
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionVolunteers provide water, food and support to those mourning the bombing One of the attackers behind the Easter Sunday bombings in Sri Lanka once studied in the UK, officials say, as further details on the bombers emerge.He visited south-east England in 2006-7 to study but did not…
Enlarge / The beginning of the End... game. Ars Technica takes spoilers seriously. This Avengers Endgame review has been written with a bare minimum of plot details, for those interested in seeing the film completely fresh-eyed starting on Friday, April 26. The buzz word "inevitability" comes up a few times during the three-hour course of…
FILE PHOTO: U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin leaves the G-20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors' meeting at the IMF and World Bank's 2019 Annual Spring Meetings, in Washington, April 12, 2019. REUTERS/James Lawler Duggan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Tuesday he cannot comply with a demand by a House…
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionFootage shows a man with a large backpack calmly walking towards St Sebastian's church The Islamic State (IS) group may be linked to bomb blasts which killed 321 people and wounded 500 in Sri Lanka, the country's prime minister has said. Ranil Wickremesinghe said the government believed…
Enlarge / Microsoft's inspiration, evidently. For two periods last year, those using preview builds of Windows 10 could access to a feature called Sets: a tabbed interface that was eventually to allow tabs to be put in the titlebar of just about any window. These tabs would allow both multiple copies of the same application…
LONDON (Reuters) - Prince Harry’s wedding to Meghan Markle, an American actress of African-American heritage, was a historic moment for Britain’s royal family. Some say the imminent birth of their baby is, if anything, even more significant. FILE PHOTO: Britain's Prince Harry gestures next to his wife Meghan as they ride a horse-drawn carriage after…
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionAftermath of deadly Sri Lanka explosions A wave of bombings that killed 290 people in Sri Lanka on Sunday was carried out with the support of an international network, officials said.The government has blamed a little-known local jihadist group, National Thowheed Jamath, although no-one has yet admitted…
Enlarge / You'd have to look carefully at the CX-5's badges to tell whether it was one of the new diesel-powered versions. Mazda When Mazda invited us to a roundtable discussion about powertrain technology at this year's New York auto show, it was easy to say yes. After all, the company is responsible for a…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is expected to announce on Monday that all importers of Iranian oil will have to end their imports shortly or be subject to U.S. sanctions, a source familiar with the situation told Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Gas flares from an oil production platform at the Soroush oil fields in the…
