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Parliament rejects Brexit deal, leaving May to scramble for a plan B

Amid the myriad complexities surrounding the terms of the EU-U.K. divorce, the decision has strained the U.K.'s constitutional arrangements. "But it is becoming...

Car, Truck Of The Year Revealed At The Detroit Auto Show

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Barrow M&S set to close with loss of 57 jobs

The closures will impact 1,045 staff. Marks and Spencer has announced the next 17 stores that will close as part of its reorganisation plan. The proposed cl...

Supermac's wins long-running trademark case against McDonald's

It's a unique victory when you take on the golden arches and win", McDonagh, Supermac's managing director, said. McDonagh says the move will now let his chain...

Huawei founder breaks years-long public silence to talk company security

Ren's meeting with foreign press in Shenzhen today, which reportedly lasted more than two hours, attempted to assure people that the Chinese government was no...

VW, Ford announce alliance to build commercial vans, pickups

Both Ford CEO Jim Hackett and Diess stressed the positive atmosphere during the recent negotiations, with the VW CEO describing Ford as "like-minded partn...

Democrats boycott White House border security meeting

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Trump Dismisses Ocasio-Cortez's Racism Charge: 'Who Cares?'

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Winnipeg Air Traffic Controllers send pizza to USA counterparts

Canadian air traffic controllers, who regularly communicate with American controllers in neighboring sectors, have been organizing the delivery of hundreds of p...

Pound rises after 'meaningful' Brexit vote

Parliament voted 432-202 against her deal, the worst parliamentary defeat for a government in recent British history. The vote opens up a range of outcomes ,...

China logs record trade surplus with United States in 2018

The higher tariffs China levied on US supplies also hit the country's overall import growth. China's trade surplus with the United States shot up by 17.2 pe...

Dulles TSA checkpoints reduced after record staff call-outs amid snow storm, shutdown

Bilello said the Delta passenger had been "fully cooperative with authorities". "The national unscheduled absence rate of TSA staff on Thursday, January 3, 2019...

Trump tells farmers that wall won't hurt them

Trump says he understands that farmers need people to help with harvests. Officials said Trump's speech is scheduled for 11:15 a.m.to 12:45 p.m. The Agric...

GM reveals upcoming Cadillac EV built on next-gen EV platform

A large luxury crossover utility is inherently more profitable for any automaker than a compact hatchback, and those profits plus the falling costs seen by GM s...

China's trade surplus with the USA grew in 2018 but tariffs bite

However, the data show December exports to US contracted 3.5 percent compared with year ago as Trump tariff hikes hit. Russian Federation is now ranked as Chin...

PG&E talking with banks about multibillion dollar bankruptcy financing package

The company's board made a decision to oust CEO Geisha Williams and undergo a restructuring at a board meeting this weekend in San Francisco, according to a sou...

Musk’s SpaceX is said to plan cutting about 10% of workforce

Back in September, Musk revealed the new design of the Big Falcon Rocket, now simply called Starship, and confessed he wanted to emulate the design of the comic...

United States oil inches down amid concerns of economic slowdown

Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, reports Reuters . Hong Kong's Hang Seng shed 0.3 percent to 26,394.06, while the Shanghai Composite index was flat at ...

Ford Job Cuts: How Will Its $11 Billion Restructuring Plan Help?

This is because it was widely known that Bridgend's contract to make engines for JLR was coming to an end and that Ford's own plans for a new engine had been ...

PC sales stumble in Q4 amid CPU shortages, China trade war

Just when the PC market found its footing the USA trade war with China and processor shortages put the kibosh on unit sales, according to stats from both IDC...

Congressional Dems ‘Exasperated’ With Ocasio-Cortez: ‘Don’t Attack Your Own People’

Last week, a conservative activist released an old video of Ocasio-Cortez dancing in college, apparently in an homage to the '80s classic The Breakfast Club , ...

Wireless carriers vow to stop selling customers' location data to third parties

It will end in March , as planned and promised.' For what it's worth, Legere this past summer said that T-Mobile would stop selling 'customer location data t...

Ghosn indicted on additional charges including aggravated breach of trust

Ghosn; Greg Kelly , another Nissan executive; and Nissan as a legal entity also were charged Friday with additional underreporting of income, from 2015 through...

FDA halts food inspections during government shutdown

That led to far fewer federal inspections on domestic food. In a possible sign of the slowed pace of inspections, the FDA hasn't posted any new warning lette...

Saudis raise oil reserves ahead of Aramco's planned IPO

OPEC and its allies decided last month to cut their overall output by 1.2 million bpd from January, to boost prices hit by a supply glut and fears demand cou...

China says trade talks with U.S. were extensive, promoted mutual understanding

The discussions during the past two days "went well", according to Steven Winberg, an Energy Department official who spoke to reporters in Beijing . However,...

In China, Musk sure felt the love missing back home

Ellison's revelation comes at a hard time for Tesla . After a year to forget in the U.S., Elon Musk just had a few days to remember in China . Musk was ...

Aviation workers say government shutdown 'needlessly risks' safety in the skies

Gayzagian is acting president of The American Federation of Government employees, which represents TSA workers. A United spokesperson told the Herald that the...

Poloz 'confident' about hometown Oshawa after GM's planned closure

The action came after Unifor, the union representing the autoworkers, failed to win GM's support for its proposals to save the plant. GM stunned the North Am...

Apple planning to release three new iPhones in 2019

In the case of the iPhone XS and XS Max sequel, this will mean jumping from two to three lenses. Apple has reportedly chose to stick with the LCD display on...

Fiat Chrysler will pay $800 million to settle diesel emissions lawsuits

Apart from this, part of the settlement includes US$ 311 million in fines and US$ 72 million to other states. The recalled vehicles - which are equipped with ...

Powell: Fed can be patient as U.S. economy evolves in 2019

After four rate hikes a year ago, the Fed would be "bordering on going too far and possibly tipping the economy into recession" if rates go higher, Bullard said...

China Trade Talks Conclude on Optimistic Note

Meanwhile, confirming the conclusion of the trade talks, China's foreign ministry spokesman Lu Kang told a media briefing that "the extension of the talks indic...

Rare penny from school lunch change up for auction

Done Lutes, from MA, was 16 when he was handed the one cent coin at the cafeteria in 1947. "All pennies struck in 1943 were zinc coated steel". "The few resul...

Oil rises one per cent on US, China trade talk optimism

USA and Chinese negotiators wrapped up their latest round of trade talks in Beijing on Wednesday as they seek a way out of a damaging trade war. One tumultu...