JULY 3, 2018
NSA Surveillance Lawsuit - Patrick Semansky / AP
In a tweet on Tuesday morning, President Trump criticized the National Security Agency for deleting millions of "phone calls and text messages" and suggested the deletion was related to "the witch hunt," which is the way he habitually refers to the special counsel's ongoing investigation into Russian meddling in the...
JULY 3, 2018
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has struck a deal on immigration that threatened to break up her coalition only four months into her new term, agreeing to build transit camps for refugees attempting to cross into Germany via Austria.
Merkel, whose ruling coalition is comprised of three parties, was on the verge of losing the Christian Social Union (CSU)—German...
JULY 3, 2018
FILE - This July 19, 2016, file photo shows the Google logo at the company's headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. Voters in a Northern California city will decide whether Google and other tech companies should help pay for the traffic headaches and other problems that have arisen as their workforces have swelled during the past decade. The...
JULY 3, 2018
Immigrants prepare to become American citizens at a naturalization service on January 22, 2018 in Newark, New Jersey. Although much of the federal government was shut down Monday morning, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), offices remained open nationwide. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
Washington, D.C. : The Trump administration has failed to meet...
JULY 3, 2018
FILE PHOTO: The People's Republic of China flag and the U.S. Stars and Stripes fly on a lamp post Pennsylvania in Washington, - REUTERS/Hyungwon Kang/File Photo
BEIJING - China's embassy in Washington has issued a security advisory to Chinese nationals traveling to the United States, the latest such warning as trade tensions escalate between the two countries.
The embassy...
JULY 3, 2018
Australian skipper Aaron Finch sent the Zimbabwe bowlers for a leather hunt as he scored 172 off just 76 balls in the third match of the T20I tri-series involving Pakistan as the third team.
In the process, he registered the highest individual score in T20I cricket, breaking his own record. With this 76-ball innings, which saw him score...
JULY 3, 2018
A woman tries the gold ornaments on the eve of Akshaya Tritiya at Jewellery Shop at Kalbhadevi, on April 17, 2018 in Mumbai, India. Akshaya Tritiya, considered an auspicious day to buy gold, pulls millions of Indians every year to jewellery stores across the country. (Photo by Anshuman Poyrekar/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)
Gold prices declined...
JULY 2, 2018
North Korea is completing a major expansion of a key missile-manufacturing plant, according to new satellite pictures that have cast fresh doubt on Pyongyang’s commitment to disarm despite US pressure.
The facility makes solid-fuel, ballistic missiles - capable of a swift nuclear strike on targets in Asia – and re-entry vehicles for warheads, believed to be one of...
JULY 2, 2018
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the nation's largest business group and customarily a close ally of President Donald Trump's Republican Party, is launching a campaign on Monday to oppose Trump's trade tariff policies.
With some of America's tightest trading partners imposing retaliatory measures, Trump's approach to tariffs has unsettled financial markets and strained relations between the White House...
JULY 2, 2018
Axios reported on Sunday that the Trump administration has drafted a bill that would abandon America's commitment to the World Trade Organization's rules.
But it's the acronym of the proposed legislation that has caught the attention of Twitter.
It is called "United States Fair and Reciprocal Tariff Act," but many are now simply calling it the...
