WASHINGTON – President Trump will announce new sanctions against North Korean shipping and trading companies on Friday, a final step in US efforts. UU. pressure leader Kim Jong Un to stop his nuclear weapons program. “The Treasury Department will soon take further steps to reduce sources of income and fuel the regime to fund its […]
A by-the-numbers look at some of Donald Trump’s early activity as president: — 24: Executive orders and memoranda signed. That includes orders to withdraw the United States from Trans-Pacific trade deal, impose a federal hiring freeze and reduce regulations related to the health care law enacted under former President Barack Obama. — 1: Executive orders […]
This originally appeared on Robert Reich’s blog. On Sunday, White House Senior Advisor Stephen Miller claimed 14 percent of non-citizens are registered to vote. “We know for a fact, you have massive numbers of non-citizens registered to vote in this country,” he said, appearing on ABC’s This Week With George Stephanopoulos. “The White House has […]
Michigan City, near Chicago, US, has just installed its first ‘Safe Haven box’, a high-tech box for mothers to abandon unwanted infants safely and anonymously. The box, fitted into a wall at Michigan City fire station, uses sensors and a smart locking system to alert authorities when a baby has been placed inside. ABC7 Chicago […]
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Inside the original Macintosh computer, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs inscribed the signatures of his team, revealing his deep concern for even the hidden features of his products. His last work – Apple Inc’s (AAPL.O) sprawling new headquarters in Cupertino, Calif. – will be a fitting tribute: a futuristic campus built with […]
Yahoo Inc. in 2015 “secretly built a custom software program to search all of its customers’ incoming emails for specific information provided by U.S. intelligence officials,” according to a new Reuters article. On behalf of the National Security Agency, the company scanned “all arriving messages” of “hundreds of millions of Yahoo Mail accounts” for an […]