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White House blasts Trudeau over G7 statements

After Trump left the event, he launched a scathing attack on Canada's tariffs , while Trudeau called the USA president's steel and aluminum imports tax "kind...

Bitcoin value dips in wake of South Korean exchange hack

Some observers pinned the latest retreat on the hacking of a South Korean exchange, while others pointed to lingering concern over a clampdown on trading platf...

Trump says U.S. won't sign G7 joint statement, leaving summit in chaos

United States President Donald Trump on Saturday withdrew his endorsement of a joint statement released at the end of the G7 summit held in Canada and acc...

Kia recalls 65,000 vehicles in Canada for airbag glitch

Combined with a previous recall expansion by Hyundai, the affiliated automakers are recalling almost 1.1 million vehicles due to the problem, which has been lin...

North Korea's Kim lands in Singapore ahead of summit with Trump

North Korea has long anxious about an American invasion and justifies its nuclear buildup as a way to defend itself. On Sunday, Kim Jong-un arrived in Singa...

Business as usual in North Korea as public unaware of summit

President Donald Trump . Watchers said Monday it still remains unclear whether the two countries can reach any historic agreement on denuclearization and s...

Tony Awards 2018: How to Watch, Who’s Presenting and More!

Garfield ended his speech with an reference to the recent Supreme Court ruling, which found that a Colorado bakery was legally permitted to deny service to cu...

KFC goes vegetarian with plans to test plant-based chicken

The chicken run coincides with other attempts to bring meatless items to fast-food menus. Almost four decades after the death of the man who founded the Kentu...

The International House of Pancakes is (allegedly) changing its name

The restaurant has been replying to people on Twitter saying the name will be good and people will have to wait until June 11 to find out what it will be. One...

Trudeau: Canada will retaliate against US tariffs

French President Emmanuel Macron , whose country will host next year's summit in Biarritz, said work would continue. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudea...

Google says it won't build AI for weapons

Google plans to make technologies and services available in accordance with the above principles, but it can only evaluate the likely uses. The company claims...

Porsche Gives Taycan Name To Road-Going Mission E Concept

Porsche's first full-electric sports vehicle won't hit the streets until next year but the Mission E concept now has a street-legal name: Taycan . Porsche ...

A look back at Trump on North Korea

But it's unclear what the US will get out of it. President Trump has said his goal is to get North Korea to agree to a complete denuclearization, and if not, ...

Venezuela is said to urge OPEC to unite against sanctions

While the US government has often expressed opinion against OPEC's oil price-fixing policies-including a recent comment by President Trump, asking for a specifi...

Former NBA star Rodman to fly to Singapore for Trump-Kim summit

Beijing, the North's only major ally and key economic lifeline, is also ready for a peace agreement, according to William Overholt, an Asia expert and senior fe...

ZTE Sings An Agreement To Restart Its Operations In The US Market

It's important to note that this deal is not confirmed, with Commerce Department spokesman James Rockas saying that "no definitive agreement has been signed b...

Flying cars could soon become a reality

The Flyer is one of two major initiatives at Kitty Hawk . Test drives are underway for the Kitty Hawk Flyer, which is being called a "flying vehicle". Ki...

MACRON’S MUTINY: French President TURNS on TRUMP Ahead of G7 Summit

Trump is scheduled to arrive Friday morning for the Summit. "I think Putin's probably going, 'Man, I wish Hillary won, '" Trump said . "But then it became ...

Trump Wants Russia Back In G-7

In May, the president announced his administration would impose steel and aluminum tariffs on Canada , Mexico and the European Union - all of which announc...

European Affairs Minister rejects United Kingdom proposal for a "temporary" Brexit backstop

What is the Brexit "backstop" for and how would it work? . The Irish border issue has the potential to derail the whole divorce deal. "Why? Because it has be...

Putin Tells Austrian Reporter He and Trump ‘Regularly Talk Over the Phone’

Mueller's indictment accuses Prigozhin and 12 other Russians of engaging in an alleged election-meddling conspiracy by placing politically divisive posts and ...

Malcolm Jenkins Responds to White House Snub With Signs: ‘You Aren’t Listening’

With criticism mounting throughout the morning Tuesday, the White House issued a statement defending its decision because Eagles players had "abandoned" t...

Heinz plans to rename Salad Cream as 'sandwich cream'

Heinz has defended the re-brand after 104 years by saying only 14% of those buying Salad Cream now use it in their salads. Salad Cream also contains significa...

No Driver Input Detected In Seconds Before Deadly Tesla Crash, NTSB Finds

Three seconds before the crash, the Model X sped up from 62 to 70.8 miles per hour before hitting the barrier at roughly 71 miles per hour. The National Trans...

Microsoft Just Dumped a Data Center Into the Ocean

The 854 servers in the shipping container-sized data center are cooled by the cold waters found near the seafloor. That means Microsoft's data center, which h...

British government approves Comcast and Fox bids for Sky, setting up showdown

Mr Murdoch owns major British newspaper titles The Times and The Sun and critics say obtaining full control of Sky News would give him too much influence ...

US reaches deal with China's phone maker ZTE: Commerce Secretary

That includes $1 billion paid up front, and $400 million that will be placed in escrow, in case ZTE is found to have violated the terms of the new settlement. A...

MyHeritage Genealogy Site Announces Mega Breach Affecting 92 Million Accounts

Based on the creation dates of some accounts, the breach appears to have taken place on October 26, 2017. Deutsch said that the site learned of the breach onl...

Trump wrongly accused Canada of torching White House in War of 1812

President Trump's decision to impose tariffs on allies including Canada and the European Union has stoked fears of a trade war and is expected to be at the ...

Trump to Trudeau: 'Didn't you guys burn down the White House?'

The White House imposed steel and aluminum tariffs against Mexico and Canada last week, citing the delayed NAFTA negotiations as reason for the decision. The ne...

Tesla shareholders reject bid to strip Musk of chairman role

Currently, the roles of both Chairman of the Board and CEO are filled by Elon Musk , and a "Yes" vote would strip Musk of the Chairman role. "We're confident...

Qatar Airways CEO says only men can do his job

Qatar Airways followed up with a statement from Al Baker suggesting his comment had been made in jest. Qatar Airways posted the apology to its Twitter ac...

Google Will Reportedly Stop Analyzing Pentagon Drone Footage

Greene said Google chose to work on Project Maven "at a time when Google was more aggressively pursuing military work", Gizmodo reported . Google was anxio...

Voters to decide state, federal, local races in CA primary

Yet nightmare scenarios exist for both parties. It puts all candidates together in one big primary regardless of what party they belong to. California tops ...

Why Donald Trump's trade war isn't worrying most economists, yet

He's in standoffs with Mexico, Canada, China, Japan and members of the European Union , the largest US trading partner. With free trade, foreign markets have b...