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WASHINGTON, April 23 (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Wednesday that high tariffs between the United States and China are not sustainable, as President Donald Trump’s administration signaled openness to de-escalating a trade war between the world’s two largest economies that has raised fears of recession. U.S. stocks rallied on hopes that…
A dimwitted career criminal hurled Molotov cocktails at agents guarding a federal immigration facility in Los Angeles while shouting anti-ICE comments from the sidewalk outside the building — but neglected to ignite the bottles first. Jose Francisco Jovel, 54, who has a criminal history spanning nearly four decades, was arrested after the incident at the…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu opened his speech to Congress by declaring that US support for his nation’s war with Hamas terrorists ultimately “a clash between barbarism and civilizations.” Netanyahu entered the chamber a little after 2 p.m. and thanked senior congressional leaders “for giving me the profound honor for addressing this great citadel of…
Germany’s industrial output fell for a second consecutive month in June, figures published this week show, with a drop of 1.5% far wider than the previous month’s slip of 0.1%. The German Economy Ministry warned that high energy prices and interest rates had taken their toll, despite rising demand. The slump in output was greater…
NEW YORK/LONDON/SINGAPORE, Jan 27 (Reuters) – Investors sold off a host of technology stocks from Tokyo to New York on Monday as they worried that the emergence of a low-cost Chinese artificial intelligence model would threaten the dominance of current AI leaders such as Nvidia (NVDA.O), opens new tab. Startup DeepSeek launched a free AI…
Google has agreed to delete billions of records and submit to some restrictions on its power to track users, under the terms of a proposed legal settlement. The deal aims to resolve a class action lawsuit brought in the US in 2020, which had accused the tech giant of invading people’s privacy by collecting user…