JUNE 20, 2018
Chinese acquisitions and investments in the U.S. fell 92 percent to just $1.8 billion in the first five months of this year, consulting and research firm Rhodium Group said Tuesday.
Counting divestitures, net Chinese deal flow to the U.S. during that time was a negative $7.8 billion, the report said.
The decline follows a sharp drop in the second...
JUNE 20, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Senate has blocked a White House plan to cut almost $15 billion in unused government money slated for children's health insurance and other programs.
Fifty senators voted against the measure Wednesday, with 48 supporting it. The House narrowly passed the plan this month. It would take a mostly symbolic whack at government spending because...
JUNE 20, 2018
Brief Scorecard: England 481 for 6 (Hales 147, Bairstow 139) beat Australia 239 (Rashid 4-47, Moeen 3-28) by 242 runs
Centuries from Jonny Bairstow and Alex Hales powered England to a world record men's ODI score of 481 for 6 against Australia at Trent Bridge which also included the fastest ODI fifty for them by Eoin Morgan.
On the...
JUNE 20, 2018
He’s done it on Twitter. He’s done it in the White House driveway. And he’s done it in a speech to a business group.
President Trump — a man already known for trafficking in mistruths and even outright lies — has been outdoing even himself with falsehoods in recent days, repeating and amplifying bogus claims on several of the most...
JUNE 19, 2018
House Republicans released a proposal Tuesday that would balance the budget in nine years — but only by making large cuts to entitlement programs, including Medicare, that President Trump vowed not to touch.
The House Budget Committee is aiming to pass the blueprint this week, but that may be as far as it goes this midterm election year....
JUNE 19, 2018
It’s the end of an era for General Electric. After more than a century on the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the industrial conglomerate will be replaced on the index by pharmacy chain Walgreens Boots Alliance when trading begins on June 26.
David Blitzer, managing director and chairman of the S&P Dow Jones Indices’ index committee, said in a...
JUNE 19, 2018
Since their discovery, the only acknowledged black hole varieties represent two extremes: one could swallow the sun, and the other could swallow an entire galaxy. Scientists have long sought proof of mid-size black holes that could fill the gap, and now, they’re one step closer.
For the first time, a group of researchers captured an intermediate-mass black hole...
JUNE 9, 2018
Stocks fell sharply Tuesday after President Donald Trump's latest threat to China increased fears of an impending trade war between the world's largest economies.
The Dow was down more than 300 points after sinking more than 400 points earlier, with Boeing, DowDuPont and Caterpillar lagging. The 30-stock index erased all of its gains for the year.
The S&P 500...
JUNE 19, 2018
FILE - In this Friday, April 20, 2018, file photo, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach speaks during a rally at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. A federal judge has ruled Kansas cannot require documentary proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote, a setback for Kobach in a case with national implications for voting rights. (AP...
JUNE 19, 2018
US Ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, arrives for a UN Security Council meeting, at United Nations Headquarters in New York, on April 14, 2018. The UN Security Council on Saturday opened a meeting at Russia's request to discuss military strikes carried out by the United States, France and Britain on Syria in response to a...
