LONDON — In the battle for online privacy, Google is a U.S. Goliath facing a handful of European Davids. The backlash over Big Tech’s collection of personal data offers new hope to a number of little-known search engines that promise to protect user privacy. Sites like Britain’s Mojeek , France’s Qwant , Unbubble in […]
NEW YORK — Facebook’s outgoing head of communications is taking the blame for hiring Definers, the public relations firm doing opposition research on the company’s critics, including billionaire philanthropist George Soros. In a Facebook post that went up late Wednesday, Elliot Schrage said the responsibility to hire Definers rests with […]
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina— A headless Anibal Troilo, one of the tango’s greatest performers, rests on a seat holding his concertina. Beside him, tango singer Alberto Castillo smiles, though he lacks arms. The Argentine musical icons are in a hospital of a sort, where the 2,200 statues and monuments […]
WASHINGTON — For congressional Republicans, this month’s elections ushered in the year of the woman — literally. West Virginia’s Carol Miller will be the only Republican woman entering the 435-member House as a newcomer in January. She’ll join what may be the chamber’s smallest group of female GOP […]
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump and Chief Justice John Roberts clashed in an extraordinary public dispute over the independence of America’s judiciary, with Roberts bluntly rebuking the president for denouncing a judge who rejected his migrant asylum policy as an “Obama judge.” There’s no such thing, Roberts declared […]
SINGAPORE — Asian markets were mostly lower on Thursday as a mixed bag of data from the United States that could point to softening growth rattled investors. KEEPING SCORE: Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 was less than 0.1 percent lower at 21,504.00 and South Korea’s Kospi dropped 0.2 percent […]
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Mars is about to get its first U.S. visitor in years: a three-legged, one-armed geologist to dig deep and listen for quakes. NASA’s InSight makes its grand entrance through the rose-tinted Martian skies on Monday, after a six-month, 300 million-mile (480 million-kilometer) journey. It […]
FRANKFURT, Germany — Holiday shoppers should enjoy more spending power thanks to the recent sharp drop in oil prices, though cheaper energy could also weigh on the U.S. economy by dampening investment in shale oil production. While the fall in oil prices doesn’t yet match the 2014-2016 slump […]
NEW YORK — Avoid all romaine lettuce, but don’t worry about your turkey. With two food poisoning outbreaks making headlines before Thanksgiving, the messages about what’s safe to eat can be hard to keep straight. Here’s what you should know before you sit down for dinner. WHAT LETTUCE […]
Nilackal/Pamba (Ker) : Hitting out at the CPI(M)-led LDF government in Kerala on the Sabarimala issue, Union minister Pon Radhakrishnan Wednesday said its “masterplan” was to “harass” the devotees and not allow them to go to the Ayyappa temple. “What is their Masterplan? To harass the devotees…Not to allow […]
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