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Thomson Reuters For all of Iran’s fierce verbal response to fresh U.S. threats of tougher sanctions, some senior officials in Tehran believe the door to diplomacy should stay open. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo presented a list of sweeping demands for Iran, including abandoning nuclear enrichment, its ballistic missile program and its role in […]
The city council cut a proposed per-employee fee nearly in half, after Amazon and more than 100 other companies opposed the original plan. https://media.wired.com/photos/5afb1b4695d5844ec4ac052f/master/pass/AmazonSeattle_17290782980799.jpg
Reuters/Joshua Roberts Florida’s Republican governor signed a bill on Friday combining certain gun-control and school-safety measures. The bill broke with the National Rifle Association in raising the minimum age for rifle purchases to 21 from 18. But it also fell short of expectations from survivors of last month’s high-school shooting — they called it a […]
MONTREAL — Auto industry officials fretting about hardline U.S. NAFTA demands with the potential to turn a globally integrated industry upside down now are hopeful that a Canadian compromise plan could avert disaster. The officials, speaking to Reuters on the sidelines of NAFTA talks here, said strenuous lobbying efforts on behalf of the industry were […]
Getty Images Only one person gets to choose the Federal Reserve’s chair, and that’s the president of the United States. Which makes it all the more curious that a second top Fed official, Vice Chair Stanley Fischer, has taken the unusual step of opining on whom Donald Trump might pick as his future boss. Like William […]
Published time: 17 Aug, 2017 04:25 Edited time: 17 Aug, 2017 04:34 The HBO cable network has suffered yet another cyber security fiasco after it had several of its Twitter and Facebook pages, including those of the iconic ‘Game of Thrones’ show, briefly compromised by an apparent “white hat” hacking group. On Wednesday night, several […]
Enlarge / This data could potentially contain malware. (credit: UCSF) With everyone from academics to Microsoft looking at the prospect of storing data using DNA, it was probably inevitable that someone would start looking at the security implications. Apparently, they’re worse than most people might have expected. It turns out it’s possible to encode computer […]
The author is the founder and president of Americans for Tax Reform. TV pundits are bemoaning the loss of “bipartisan compromise.” They think they’re being sophisticated and worldly, but they are simply telling everyone just how very old they are. Back in the 1950s, and even into the 1970s, all fights — civil rights, taxes, […]
Though metal grates protect the windows of the imposing brick building of this pre-K through eighth-grade school, the interior walls are decorated with art and echo with the sounds of chattering children. In class, one small group is working with a teacher while another collaborates over a set of laptop computers. When the bell rings, […]
When colleagues tell Deb Fischer they’d love to visit her ranch sometime, she is skeptical. Sure, the Nebraska Sand Hills appear lovely and bucolic, but Fischer tells those people: “You should come out in January, when it’s 10 below zero, and chop ice with our kids.” That’s their morning ritual, to break the frozen top […]
