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The envoy said Canada is employing a double standard in demanding the release of two men who were detained in China nine days after the arrest of Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou at the request of U.S. authorities. “It seems that, to some...
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The widely anticipated nomination provides Trump another avid supporter of his deregulatory and pro-fossil fuels agenda, but without the constant criticism over alleged mismanagement that plagued Wheeler's predecessor, Scott Pruitt. The decision ple...
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It’s been painful: Xiaomi has dropped to HK$10.34 from a listing price of HK$17, losing another 6.9 percent Wednesday on almost seven times its average volume of the past three months. More than 3 billion shares were unlocked, equal to about 19 perc...
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Oil prices rose by around 1 percent on Wednesday, extending gains from the previous session on hopes that Washington and Beijing may soon resolve trade disputes that have cast a dark shadow over the global economy. U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI)...
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China's approval of imports of a DowDuPont Inc genetically modified soybean puts rival Bayer AG on the defensive, investors and analysts said, as U.S. farmers will have a new choice when planting their most valuable agricultural export. Bayer-owne...
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House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her fellow Democrats who took control of the chamber last week plan to advance a bill to immediately reopen the Treasury Department, the Securities and Exchange Commission and several other agencies t...
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Scientists have long known that the flu can be dangerous for pregnant women. Now, a study published today in the journal Birth Defects Research shows that it may harm a developing fetus, too. Wom...
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As the Trump administration and China attempt to end their trade war, the U.S. is pushing forward on a key front of the conflict: a criminal prosecution of alleged trade-secret theft that has helped to hobble China’s aspirations of mass producing mem...
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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) called climate change "the biggest crisis of all"
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Facing Democratic opposition in Congress to a wall that he promised to build as a presidential candidate, Trump said in his first prime-time address from the Oval Office that there was a growing security and humanitarian crisis at the U.S.-Mexico bor...
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It's only been about a week since NASA successfully inserted its OSIRIS-REx asteroid probe into orbit around the large space rock known as Bennu, after initially arriving in early December. The diamond-shaped object will quickly become one of the...
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While many investors have identified challenges in the sector after a lackluster 2018 that saw the Nasdaq Composite Index’s first annual decline in seven years, the world’s largest money manager is staying the course on the long-term trend, according...
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Between 1991 and 2016, cancer deaths dropped by 27 percent.
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NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said on Tuesday it would complete a rule to boost sales of higher-ethanol blends of gasoline by the summer driving season, despite a partial government shutdown. President Dona...