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President Donald Trump on Thursday sent the stock market plunging downward after he announced new tariffs on Chinese goods over Twitter. In a Thursday afternoon tweet, the president slammed China for not living up to its promises to buy more American agriculture goods, and he said the United States would soon retaliate by putting “a […]

Great Britain Under-18s were beaten by Slovenia in their quarter-final at the European Championships, in Volos, on Thursday.

President Trump on Thursday threatened to impose new tariffs on virtually all remaining Chinese imports, showing he is unhappy with the progress made in recent trade talks with Beijing.Trump tweeted that the U.S. would place a 10 percent tariff on $...

Lucas Torreira is officially back with the Arsenal squad after his extended holiday came to an end. The Uruguayan has participated in this year’s iteration of the Copa America with his nation, but they were sadly eliminated in the quarter-finals by the eventual finalists Peru. Torreira played three of the total four games throughout the tournament but he was unfortunately unable to help his country to glory. Now, he is back in England and already hard at work ahead of the 2019/20 Premier League campaign... Читать дальше...

HARTFORD, Conn. — The maker of the rifle used in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear its appeal of a Connecticut court ruling that reinstated a wrongful death lawsuit against the company. Remington Arms filed its request Thursday. It cited a 2005 federal law that shields gunmakers

Four meh major league starts: Equals a losing streak-snapping effort this afternoon, right Dylan? | Photo by Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images

Carpe diem! (Cease the day!)

Trump to hit $300bn in Chinese goods with 10% tariff  Financial Times

Donald Trump said the US would place a 10 per cent tariff on $300bn of additional Chinese goods, in a new escalation of the trade war between the world's two ...

David Schwimmer will hope he does not stick to the script of his namesake’s show ‘Friends’

Hackers have turned their attention to ATMs. Two surveillance videos show alleged criminals attacking ATMs in order to drain them of cash.

THE Good news is that Call of Duty Modern Warfare is getting an open beta on PC, PS4 and Xbox One, the even better news is that it will feature crossplay support.

August is here and back-to-school fever has officially hit. To nourish the frenzy, Anthropologie just kicked off not one but two entire months of Teacher Appreciation discounts. Starting today and lasting through October 6 the lifestyle company is offering 20% off all full-price, one-time purchases for teachers with valid IDs (either in-store or through an easy online sign up).

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Das weltweite Vertrauen in das Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz und Terrorismusbekämpfung (BVT) dürfte auch nach Ende des parlamentarischen Untersuchungsausschusses leiden. In einem der APA vorliegenden Brief an die Mitarbeiter des Hauses bittet Direktor Peter Gridling um Verständnis für angeordnete Sicherheitsmaßnahmen, um das "verloren gegangene Vertrauen bei den Partnern wiederherzustellen".

Raytheon on Thursday announced a $108 million contract from the U.S. Army, awarded under a previous $2.4 billion deal, to develop a maintenance training program to help Afghanistan create a self-sustaining air force.

In a digital world, GameStop is still firmly in the business of selling plastic discs and colorful tchotchke.

GameStop is the largest video game retailer in the world, with over 7,000 stores. The company had been in steady decline for years, but the bottom has dropped out of its stock price in 2019 - from $US16 a share in January to just $US4 by late July. More »

• GameStop is the largest video game retailer in the world, with over 7,000 stores.
• The company had been in steady decline for years, but the bottom has dropped out of its stock price in 2019 — from $16 a share in January to just $4 by late July.
• The company is "a melting ice cube," Wedbush analyst Michael Pachter told Business Insider earlier this year. "For sure it's going to go away eventually." 
• We visited a handful of GameStop stores in New York City, and it was evident why the company is failing. Читать дальше...

You may recall that, recently, I posted on WIPO's bizarre decision to host a database of "pirate" sites that it would share with advertisers, encouraging them to block ads from appearing on any of the sites in the "Building Respect for Intellectual Property" (BRIP) database. As we noted in our original post, previous attempts at such databases showed how problematic they could be, as they almost always swept up perfectly legal sites, and they provided no due process, no checks and balances or anything of the like. Читать дальше...

Matthew Collins details the crucial role of Hope Not Hate – and the group's whistleblower – in the destruction of National Action and the conviction of Jack Renshaw for plotting to murder an MP

Newcastle United have lost Ayoze Perez and Salomon Rondon this summer, the two of their best players from last season, as well as manager Rafael Benitez. But, after signing Joelinton for a club record fee from TSG Hoffenheim, it looks like Magpies will be getting another player in soon. And this one should be from […]

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Here's a word that was not once uttered by any of the 10 Democratic presidential candidates who gathered for the second night of the debates held in Detroit Wednesday: growth.

Red Bull's Max Verstappen took issue with 'unfair' Formula One stewards on Thursday after Ferrari's Charles Leclerc escaped sanction for an unsafe release.

TUPELO, Miss. (AP) - Federal prosecutors say arrests in recent days targeted a Mississippi drug trafficking ring under investigation since 2016.