JUNE 8, 2019
Grinnell Glacier is pictured at the turnaround point of an 11-mile round-trip hike in Glacier National Park in Montana on Sept. 5, 2017. According to the National Park Service, the park's glacial ice sheets are a fraction of the size they were 100 years ago, and they are melting so fast that they will all be gone...
JUNE 8, 2018
Chinese President Xi Jinping had the ultimate tour guide on his visit to the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum this week: His "bosom friend," Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The Kremlin released photos late Thursday of Putin showing Xi around his hometown, the former imperial capital of tsarist Russia. The Chinese leader saw works from the Renaissance collection of...
JUNE 7, 2019
President Trump speaks before signing a policy directive to send American astronauts back to the moon, and eventually Mars, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on Dec. 11, 2017, in Washington. - Evan Vucci/AP
President Trump on Friday sharply criticized NASA for promoting its plan to return to the moon before exploring Mars, a strategy...
JUNE 6, 2019
SUV production at a General Motors plant in Arlington, Tex. - Matthew Busch/Bloomberg
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The world’s largest automakers warned President Trump on Thursday that one of his most sweeping deregulatory efforts — his plan to weaken tailpipe pollution standards — threatens to cut their profits and produce “untenable” instability in a crucial manufacturing sector.
In a letter...
JUNE 6, 2019
How many robocalls are you expecting today? - Jason Schneider
The agency is giving wireless carriers the green light to "aggressively block" these annoying calls by default.
Americans are fed up with robocalls. And the Federal Communications Commission are giving carriers like Verizon and T-Mobile the power to do something about it.
On Thursday, the FCC voted unanimously on a...
JUNE 6, 2019
Brief Scorecard: Australia 288 (Coulter Nile 92, Smith 73, Brathwaite 3-67) beat West Indies 273 for 9 (Hope 68, Holder 51, Starc 5-46) by 15 runs
NOTTINGHAM, ENGLAND - Australia survived a top-order failure to bounce back spectacularly and beat West Indies by 15 runs at Trent Bridge on Thursday to record their second victory of the...
JUNE 6, 2019
The RBI will set up a committee to review the charges for usage of ATMs. The central bank has also abolished its charges for NEFT and RTGS money transfer to promote digital transactions.
Draft guidelines for on tap licensing of small finance banks will be issued soon while a forex trading platform for retail participants will be set...
JUNE 6, 2019
Foreign tech workers face higher hurdles to a get a job in the U.S. but that hasn’t stopped their interest in working there.
The share of foreign job clicks for U.S. based tech job postings rose to 9.6% in the first quarter of 2019 from 9.3% for the same period in 2018, according to a study published Wednesday...
JUNE 5, 2019
Brief Scorecard: India 230 for 4 (Rohit 122*, Dhoni 34, Rabada 2-39) beat South Africa 227 for 9 (Morris 42, du Plessis 38, Chahal 4-51, Bumrah 2-35) by six wickets
Rohit Sharma steered India to a 6-wicket victory in their opening match of the 2019 Cricket World Cup after Yuzvendra Chahal and Jasprit Bumrah restricted South Africa to...
JUNE 5, 2019
The United States government on Friday updated visa application forms to require nearly all applicants to provide their social media usernames, email addresses, and phone numbers for the past five years. The requirement to provide the additional information is in line with the Donald Trump administration s decision to ensure more stringent screening of potential immigrants and...
