Asian markets mostly fell in early trading Friday, ahead of a news conference by President Donald Trump regarding China. Japan’s Nikkei NIK, -0.34% slipped 0.3% and Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index HSI, -0.71% fell 0.3%. The Shanghai Composite SHCOMP, +0.00% inched up 0.2% and the smaller-cap Shenzhen Composite 399106, +0.63% rose 1%. South Korea’s Kospi […]
A college student wanted for the slayings of two people in Connecticut was caught and arrested on Wednesday night following a six-day manhunt, according to law enforcement officials in Maryland. Hagerstown Police Chief Paul Kifer said he got a text message at 9:26 p.m. after his investigators learned Peter Manfredonia, 23, was in custody. Police were told […]
Iran’s new combat vessels include speedboats, coastal patrol boats and submarines, according to state TV (AFP Photo/-) Tehran (AFP) – Iran’s Revolutionary Guards on Thursday warned the United States against its naval presence in the Gulf as they received 110 new combat vessels. The vessels included Ashura-class speedboats, Zolfaghar coastal patrol boats and Taregh submarines, […]
Mark Zuckerberg called out his social-media rival on Wednesday, saying Twitter Inc. should not be fact-checking President Donald Trump — or anybody. During a clip from an interview on Fox News’s “The Daily Briefing,” which will be aired in full Thursday, the Facebook Inc. FB, -1.31% co-founder and chief executive said companies shouldn’t be the […]
WASHINGTON — A draft of an executive order President Donald Trump is expected to sign on Thursday would seek to limit the broad legal protection that federal law currently provides social-media and other online platforms, according to people familiar with the draft. The draft order would make it easier for federal regulators to hold companies […]
President Donald Trump is poised to sign an executive order on social-media companies Thursday, escalating his war on Twitter Inc., although it remains unclear what it will entail. Late Wednesday night, the Wall Street Journal reported a draft copy of the order would limit legal protections afforded to social-media companies, making it easier for federal […]
When the Trump administration pushed this year’s income-tax deadline from April 15 to July 15, it intended to give taxpayers some peace of mind and extra cash flow amid the coronavirus outbreak. Those extra three months might also give people a chance to reduce their tax bill — so long as they feel they have […]
Apple Inc. has nabbed director Martin Scorsese’s next film, “Killers of the Flower Moon,” starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro, according to people familiar with the matter. The project will be Apple’s AAPL, +0.43% biggest foray into film yet as it beat out other interested companies, including Netflix Inc. NFLX, +1.23% , which produced […]
President Trump’s approval rating has plummeted since late February, according to the Rasmussen daily tracking poll, which the president frequently cited during his first three years in office. As of Wednesday, 42 percent of Americans told Rasmussen that they approved of the job Trump was doing as president, while 57 percent disapproved. On Feb. 25, […]
HONG KONG — Simmering tensions over national security laws proposed by Beijing spilled over in Hong Kong on Wednesday, with police firing pepper pellets into crowds of protesters and arresting more than 300 people. Riot police flooded central Hong Kong as people of all ages took to the streets to protest the territory’s legislators preparing […]