Wall Street surges after upbeat economic data
Wall Street’s main indexes were sharply higher on Thursday as better-than-expected domestic and Chinese data as well as a firming yuan offered some relief to...
El Paso massacre upends white nationalists’ normalization strategy
Two years ago, America’s white nationalist movement stunned the country. Neo-Nazi demonstrations in Charlottesville, Virginia, had turned deadly when a far-right protester drove a car...
Facebook loses facial recognition technology appeal, must face class action
A federal appeals court on Thursday rejected Facebook Inc’s effort to undo a class action lawsuit claiming that it illegally collected and stored biometric data...
UK to relax immigration rules for scientists: PM Johnson
Britain will relax its immigration rules to attract more top scientists after Brexit by seeking to fast-track visas, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Thursday....
UK must leave EU on Oct. 31, PM Johnson says when asked about prospect of resigning
Parliament should honor the 2016 Brexit referendum and leave the European Union on Oct. 31, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Thursday when asked...
Emirates’ Etihad partners with Swiss blockchain platform Winding Tree
Etihad Airways, the United Arab Emirates’ national carrier, said on Thursday it has teamed up with open-source travel platform Winding Tree to explore using blockchain...
Two dead in Russian rocket engine explosion; radiation spikes, shipping shut
Two people were killed and a nearby city reported a rise in radiation levels when a rocket engine blew up at a testing site in...
Greece scraps no-go areas at universities; opposition fumes
Greek lawmakers on Thursday scrapped regulations making universities a no-go zone for police, a move authorities say will tackle lawlessness but which critics have decried...
Patient in Sarepta gene therapy trial develops serious illness; shares plunge
Shares of Sarepta Therapeutics Inc plunged 12% after a notice from the U.S. health agency showed a patient in an ongoing study of the company’s...
U.S. small-cap stocks under renewed threat from tariffs
Last week’s announcement of more U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods may have undermined the prospects for small-cap stocks to rebound this year, even after a...