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Just as European companies were getting used to last year’s hard-won U.S. trade tariff deals, President Donald Trump has put them back in his crosshairs with an explosive threat to place levies on nations that oppose his planned takeover of Greenland. Trump on Saturday said he would put rising tariffs from February 1 on goods
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EU considers $108 billion in retaliatory tariffs on US over Trump’s Greenland threat, FT reports
Message board website Reddit on Friday filed a lawsuit in Australia’s highest court seeking to overturn the country’s social media ban for children, calling it an intrusion on free political discourse and setting the stage for a protracted legal battle. The San Francisco-based firm, which ranks Australia among its biggest markets, said in a High
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Apple and Google have sent a new round of cyber threat notifications to users around the world, the companies said this week, announcing their latest effort to insulate customers against surveillance threats. Apple and the Alphabet-owned Google are two of several tech companies that regularly issue warnings to users when they determine they may have
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Iceland has designated the potential collapse of a major Atlantic Ocean current system a national security concern and an existential threat, enabling its government to strategize for worst-case scenarios, the country’s climate minister told Reuters. The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, or AMOC, current brings warm water from the tropics northward toward the Arctic, and the
Key Takeaways Redfin found that several counties at the highest risk of flooding had more people moving out than in last year. Counties around Miami, Houston, New Orleans, and Brooklyn were among those seeing the biggest outflows as rising insurance costs and flood risks drive residents away. Living in a flood-prone area can dramatically affect
Boston city councilors are proposing an ordinance that would require Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo and other autonomous ride-share services to have a human operator present in the vehicle. The legislation would mandate a study on the technology’s effects on the employment of current ride-share drivers and prohibit self-driving cars from operating in Boston until that’s been
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Sunny skies and mild temperatures this week greeted the biggest US farm show of the year. The contrast couldn’t be greater with the sentiment among attendees as low crop prices and trade tariffs squeeze the agricultural sector. The market for American crops is getting “pretty nasty,” said Scott Metzger, who drove more than 300 miles
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(Bloomberg) — Long-dated US Treasuries were lagging the market and retained modest losses as President Donald Trump intensified efforts to oust Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, deepening concerns his attacks on the central bank’s independence and lobbying for lower interest rates will fan inflation. The yield on 30-year bonds rose as much as five basis
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