Business 'We're Tightening Our Belt': Trump's Midwest Support Tested As Farmers StruggleNPR - Clay MastersFarmers in the rural Midwest say they are struggling because of President Trump's ongoing trade war and a recent decision the president made on renewable fuels made from corn and soybeans that benefits
News Putin builds war chest as Kremlin digs in for the next crisisCNN - By Sam Fossum, CNN(CNN) — In the latest display of deepening cracks in the West's formerly unified economic campaign against Russia, France's Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian told reporters Monday that "the time is for
Florida Politics Meet the rich personal injury lawyer who is pouring millions into an effort get a $15 minimum wage on Florida's ballotCNBC - Jacob Pramuk A public opinion poll on the issue also poses questions about whether it could pass. Florida voters overwhelmingly back a minimum wage increase, …
Hong Kong The U.S. Is About to Do Something Big on Hong KongThe Atlantic - Uri FriedmanTimothy McLaughlinProtests there have demonstrated the enduring appeal of American values and power. But can Washington live up to that promise? Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protest movement, the David to China’s Goliath,
China The US-China trade war has set in motion an unstoppable global economic transformationCNBC - Frederick Kempe ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates – If one strains hard enough to listen in the humid heat of this oil-rich kingdom, one can hear the rumblings of the …
No one cares about 99% of the photos you take. Not even you.Mashable - Chris TaylorBefore deepfakes and alternative facts, the online world was already telling us fibs. In our series Lies the Internet Told Me, we call 'em all out. For our summer vacation, my wife drove us hell-for-leather
Deficits Despite his promises, Trump pushes deficit past $1 trillion markMSNBC - Steve Benen After the Great Recession ended, it seemed as if trillion-dollar deficits were a thing of the past. As the Wall Street Journal reported late …
Search Engine Marketing Lawmakers Demand Documents From Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google As Investigation Into Big Tech Widensmediapost.com - Laurie Sullivan Leading U.S. lawmakers on Friday announced they are asking Amazon, Apple, Google, and Facebook for internal documents. They have sent each individual …
Facebook Facebook’s Today In Local News Feature Expands to Some 6,000 U.S. CitiesAdweek - David Cohen Facebook’s Today In local news and community information feature is now available in some 6,000 towns and cities in the U.S. Product manager Anthea …
Bernie Sanders To Win, Bernie Sanders Needs to Clearly Name His Enemy: CapitalismVICE - Brendan O'ConnorIn a Democratic primary debate that was dominated by Joe Biden's incoherence and Pete Buttigieg's smarm, the two most left-wing candidates, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, for the most part avoided
Facebook In New Facebook Effort, Humans Will Help Curate Your News StoriesThe New York Times - Mike IsaacSAN FRANCISCO — Facebook has long relied on algorithms to select news stories for its users to see. Now the social network wants to rely on something else for the same task, too: humans. Specifically,
U.S. Politics Trump announces delay on next China tariff hike until Oct. 15POLITICO - By DOUG PALMERPresident Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he was delaying plans to impose an additional 5 percent duty on $250 billion worth of Chinese goods until Oct. 15, or two weeks later than now scheduled. the
Hong Kong The Chief Executive ‘has to serve two masters’, says Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam – full transcriptReutersHONG KONG (Reuters) - This is a transcript of a talk given in late August by Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam to a group of businesspeople in the city. The transcript is taken from an audio recording
Climate AP-NORC poll: 64% disapprove of Trump's climate change viewsAssociated Press - BY SETH BORENSTEIN, NICHOLAS RICCARDI and HANNAH FINGERHUT, Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump gets some of his worst marks from the American people when it comes to his handling of climate change, and majorities believe the planet is warming and support
Social Security Elizabeth Warren’s Social Security Plan: Raise Benefits by $200 a MonthThe New York Times - Alan Rappeport and Jim TankersleyWASHINGTON — Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts unveiled a plan on Thursday to give all recipients of Social Security benefits an extra $200 per month and to pay for it by raising taxes on the her
U.S. Politics Trump announces help for certain historically black collegesAssociated Press - By DARLENE SUPERVILLE, Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — Historically black colleges and universities with a religious affiliation will no longer be restricted from accessing federal funding for capital projects, President Donald Trump announced
News Share of Americans With Health Insurance Declined in 2018The New York Times - Margot Sanger-Katz, Ben Casselman and Jeanna SmialekFewer Americans are living in poverty, but for the first time in years, more of them lack health insurance. About 27.5 million people, or 8.5 percent of the population, lacked health insurance for all
Bitcoin Majority of bitcoin trading is a hoax, new study findsCNBC - Kate Rooney The analysis showed that "substantially all of the volume" reported on 71 out of the 81 exchanges was wash trading, a term that describes a person …
Facebook Facebook warns about iPhone privacy change that could unsettle Facebook usersCNBC - Kif Leswing Less than two weeks before a likely iOS software update that will give iPhone users regular pop-ups telling them which apps are collecting …
LinkedIn Court rules startup may collect data from LinkedIn profilesAssociated PressSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal appeals court has affirmed the right of a startup company to collect information from people's public profiles on networking service LinkedIn. The U.S. Court of Appeals the
Juul Juul Illegally Marketed E-Cigarettes, F.D.A. SaysThe New York Times - Matt Richtel and Sheila KaplanJuul Labs, the dominant e-cigarette company, illegally marketed its vaping products as a less harmful alternative to traditional cigarettes, the Food and Drug Administration said on Monday, casting a shadow
Facebook Facebook Warns iOS 13 And Android 10 Users About Real-Time Location TrackingForbes - Zak DoffmanFacebook works better when it is tracking you, in real-time all of the time. That’s the warning being issued to users of the all-conquering social media platform ahead of imminent upgrades to Android and
Google States expected to target Google in new antitrust probeAssociated Press - BY RACHEL LERMAN and MARCY GORDON, Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — Fifty U.S. states and territories, led by Texas, announced an investigation into Google's "potential monopolistic behavior." The Monday announcement closely followed one from a separate
North Korea North Korea willing to resume talks with U.S. in late September: KCNAReuters - Hyonhee ShinSEOUL/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - North Korea said on Monday it was willing to restart nuclear talks with the United States in late September but warned that dealings between the sides could end unless Washington
travel news The ‘Trump Slump’ Continues: Number Of International Visitors To U.S. Drops In First Half Of 2019Forbes - Lea LaneI previously wrote about the travel-related “Trump Slump,” dubbed by members of the tourism industry when the value of the dollar declined in 2017, at a time when foreign visitors should have been coming
Business Recession Already Grips Corners of U.S., Menacing Trump’s 2020 BidBloomberg - Shawn Donnan The moment usually comes during Greg Petras’s commute through the rolling hills and cornfields of southern Wisconsin. Somewhere between his home near …
Tariffs Trump Tariffs Will Soon Cost U.S. Families Thousands of Dollars A YearForbes - Stuart AndersonTariffs are taxes that harm the average consumer. This is particularly true with the tariffs Donald Trump has levied on imports from China. The ever-escalating tariffs on Chinese goods are producing increased
Chicago, IL Why Are America’s Three Biggest Metros Shrinking?The Atlantic - Derek ThompsonAfter a post-recession boomlet, the New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago areas are all seeing their population decline. Is this the age of the great metropolitan exodus? In 2018, the New York City area more
News House Democrats will decide the fate of Trump's North American trade deal as Congress returnsCNBC - Jacob Pramuk House Democrats will control the fate of one of President Donald Trump's top priorities as they return to Washington this week. The president has …
