Category: World News

GOP rejected Obama’s executive reach, but accepts Trump’s

  WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama stunned Republicans when he bypassed Congress and — relying on what he called his pen and his phone — used executive powers to enact his agenda, including protecting millions of young immigrants from deportation. Now, with President Donald Trump proposing an even […]

US flu season poised to be milder than last year’s harsh one

NEW YORK  — It’s early, but the current flu season is shaping up to be gentler than last winter’s unusually brutal one, U.S. health officials said. In most parts of the country, most illnesses right now are being caused by a flu strain that leads to fewer hospitalizations […]

SpaceX to lay off 10 percent of workforce to become leaner

HAWTHORNE, Calif. — SpaceX will lay off 10 percent of its roughly 6,000 workers, announcing Friday that it needs to become leaner to accomplish ambitious projects such as creating a spaceship that can carry astronauts to Mars. “This action is taken only due to the extraordinarily difficult challenges […]

Lab revokes honors for controversial DNA scientist Watson

NEW YORK   — James Watson, the Nobel Prize-winning DNA scientist who lost his job in 2007 for expressing racist views, was stripped of several honorary titles Friday by the New York lab he once headed. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory said it was reacting to Watson’s remarks in a […]

How’s the US economy doing? Shutdown makes it harder to say

WASHINGTON  — The partial shutdown of the U.S. government has begun to make it harder to assess the health of the economy by delaying or distorting key reports on growth, spending and hiring. Government data on home construction and retail sales, for example, won’t be released next week […]

Nissan executive Munoz resigns after Ghosn’s arrest

TOKYO — Nissan Chief Performance Officer Jose Munoz, who took a leave of absence a week ago, has resigned, the first high-profile departure at the Japanese automaker publicly acknowledged as related to the arrest of former Chairman Carlos Ghosn. Munoz said in a statement on LinkedIn Saturday he […]

Prez Trump cancels Davos trip due to US govt shutdown over border wall issue

Washington :  President Trump has canceled his planned trip to the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) at Davos, Switzerland, citing the “intransigence” of the Democrats on his funding request to build a controversial wall along the US-Mexico border. Trump was scheduled to attend the five-day Davos […]

Enough Water available, Key is efficient Water Management: Nitin Gadkari

open view news desk MoU signed for Renukaji Multipurpose Dam Project among Six States Concession agreement for Namami Gange projects in Prayagraj also signed Shri Nitin Gadkari, Union Minister for Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation, Shipping and Road Transport & Highways today signed a Memorandum of […]

APNewsBreak: US approved thousands of child bride requests

WASHINGTON — Thousands of requests by men to bring in child and adolescent brides to live in the United States were approved over the past decade, according to government data obtained by The Associated Press. In one case, a 49-year-old man applied for admission for a 15-year-old girl. […]

Poland arrests Chinese businessman suspected of spying

Poland said Friday it had arrested a Chinese telecoms executive suspected of spying for China, with local media identifying him as a Huawei director. The move is the latest setback for Huawei, which saw the arrest of the daughter of the firm’s founder in Canada and US efforts […]

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