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Trump leaves open possibility of June 12 summit with North Korea

And Mr Trump added: "Everybody plays games". "He may be doing that, too". The president also suggested that a summit could still occur on June 12, as prev...

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Trump Signs Biggest Rollback of Bank Rules Since Dodd-Frank Act

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The company is warning owners not to use cruise control until it can be fixed with a software update. FCA says if that specific set of events occurs, the driver...

Netflix Is Now Worth More Than Comcast

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U.S. Department of Justice Set to Probe Suspected Bitcoin Price Manipulation

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Gas prices could hit $3 nationwide Memorial Day weekend

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Fed minutes: Another rate hike likely 'soon'

NEW YORK, May 23 (Reuters) - The dollar held near a more than five-month high against a basket of currencies on Wednesday, after minutes of the Federal Reserv...

Union charges that Elon Musk violated labor law with tweet

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Homebase sold for £1 to HMV-owner Hilco Capital

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Private investigator: Body of missing Wichita child believed to be found

Investigators say Glass led private investigator, David Marshburn to the area in SE Harvey County. Marshburn is from Smithfield, North Carolina and he was hir...

Consumer Groups Ask Feds to Launch Probe into Tesla's Autopilot

That vehicle was said to have sped up just before the collision that left two people injured. The driver, whom the AP identified as Heather Lommatzsch, said s...

USA defense chief suggests Trump-Kim summit could be back on

He said Japan will continue cooperating with the U.S., South Korea and other countries to achieve North Korea's denuclearization, and he wants to follow up wi...

Russian Federation accused of planning Kyiv cyber attack

Cisco, which makes switches, routers and a host of other tech equipment, said the campaign, known as VPNFilter , is similar to other attacks the USA government...

Banned From Amazon: The Shoppers Who Make Too Many Returns

Turns out Amazon's 30-day return policy isn't so liberal after all. One customer tweeted a screenshot of an email from Amazon asking her to explain why she ...

Brent Crude Oil Price Falters at $80, Downside Back In Focus

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Deutsche Bank is axing 7,000 investment banking jobs

The details on the bank's strategy come ahead of the bank's annual general meeting on Thursday. He added that the current job losses present "a hard situation...

Uber self-driving car saw pedestrian but did not brake before crash

It says: "All aspects of the self-driving system were operating normally at the time of the crash, and there were no faults or diagnostic messages". The unmanne...

Elon Musk Suggests Big Oil Is Behind Critical Media Coverage of Tesla

Musk, 46, was riled by a Robert W. Baird analyst report that said "increasingly immaterial" headlines were dominating Tesla news cycles. Mr Musk said he p...

Russia Provides Evidence That Ukrainian BUK Launchers Downed MH17 - Russian MoD

All 298 people on board - two thirds of whom were Dutch - were killed. The Buk launcher of the 9M38 series "was transported from the territory of the Russian Fe...

North Korea Says Trump Wasn't 'Confident' Enough to Meet Kim Jong Un

But on Friday, Mr Trump was asked whether the talks could still go ahead and said that negotiations with North Korea were already under way. "When I heard b...

N. Korea still willing to meet with U.S. 'at any time'

Last night a North Korean official said they're still willing to talk to the U.S. Mr Putin said of Mr Trump's announcement, "In Russia we took this news with ...

Donald Trump pardons black boxing champion Jack Johnson

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USA Gymnastics CEO to Apologize to Larry Nassar Victims at House Subcommittee

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Trump on National Football League protesters: 'Maybe you shouldn't be in the country'

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England opt to bat against Pakistan in Lord's Test

The pressure will be on Joe Root , though, knowing that if England failed to perform at home, it will be a massive boost of confidence for the No. 1 Test side...

Trump Initiates Trade Inquiry That Could Lead to Tariffs on Foreign Cars

The Trump administration launched an investigation into whether tariffs are needed on the imports of automobiles into the United States, moving swiftly as t...