SEPTEMBER 2, 2018
Google has quietly been providing select advertisers a “stockpile” of offline credit card transaction data.
After a four year negotiation, Google and Mastercard reached a deal that would pay the latter millions in exchange for coughing up data on its card holders, according to a Bloomberg report. Google then packaged the data into a new tool, called Store...
SEPTEMBER 2, 2018
LLANELWEDD, WALES - JULY 26: British Prime Minister Theresa May looks on during a visit to the Royal Welsh Show on July 26, 2018 in LLanelwedd, Wales. Mrs May has confirmed that the Government is making preparations in case of a no-deal Brexit. (Photo by Christopher Furlong - WPA Pool/Getty Images)
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - British Prime...
September 1, 2018
U.S. Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis attends the swearing in ceremony for new Secretary of Veterans Affairs Robert Wilkie in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, U.S., July 30, 2018. - REUTERS/Brian Snyder
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. military said it has made a final decision to cancel $300 million in aid to Pakistan that...
SEPTEMBER 1, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Meghan McCain, John McCain’s daughter, delivered a powerful speech at her on Saturday, and in a reproach of President Trump, said the “America of John McCain has no need to be made great again because it was always great.”
Ms. McCain’s speech contrasted her father’s legacy with the “opportunistic appropriation” and “cheap rhetoric from men...
SEPTEMBER 1, 2018
People watch as an inflatable caricature balloon of Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan is released over Parliament Square in London, Saturday, Sept. 1, 2018. Organizer Yanny Bruere raised more than 58,000 pounds ($75,000) through the Crowdfunder website for the 29-foot (8.8-meter) blimp as part of a campaign to oust Khan from his post. Khan angered some people...
SEPTEMBER 1, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Should they take back the House in November, Democrats are vowing not only a shift in legislative priorities and much stronger White House oversight, but also rules changes on how the chamber is run.
House GOP leaders this year hit a dubious milestone when they broke the single-cycle record for reporting closed rules - the...
AUGUST 31, 2018
Brief Scorecard: England 6 for 0 and 246 (Curran 78) trail India 273 (Pujara 132*, Moeen 5-63) by 21 runs
Cricket - England v India - Fourth Test - Ageas Bowl, West End, Britain - August 31, 2018 India's Cheteshwar Pujara in action Action Images via Reuters/Paul Childs
SOUTHAMPTON, ENGLAND - When Cheteshwar Pujara was...
AUGUST 31, 2018
A technician working on the clock of the Lukaskirche Church in Dresden, eastern Germany. Image:
The European Commission will recommend EU member states abolish daylight saving
LONDON — Europe looks set to stop the clocks.
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said Friday that he will bring forward proposals to scrap daylight saving time across the 28-nation European Union.
It...
AUGUST 31, 2018
President Trump speaks with U.S. Soccer President Carlos Cordeiro and FIFA President Gianni Infantino during a meeting in the Oval Office on Aug. 28, 2018.
President Trump’s disapproval rating has hit a high point of 60 percent, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll that also finds that clear majorities of Americans support the special counsel’s...
AUGUST 31, 2018
CHENNAI, TAMIL NADU - Chairman Mao Tse Tung had his Little Red Book of slogans he used to regain what he thought was his faltering hold on the Communist Party of China in the 1960s and 1970s, and late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi had the Green Book summing up his political philosophy.
Now, Tamil film superstar Rajinikanth, preparing...
