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White House expands investment ban on Chinese tech and telecom companies

The Biden administration has replaced and expanded Trump-era restrictions on investing in certain Chinese firms deemed supportive of that country’s surveillance and military apparatus. Major tec

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Biden to bolster US efforts towards July 4 vaccination target

US President Joe Biden. /Getty Images The Biden administration is accelerating efforts to administer at least one jab of a COVID-19 vaccine to 70 percent of the US' adult population by July 4,

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Biden says 'looking' at possible Russia retaliation over cyberattack

Employees are seen at the Brazilian meatpacker JBS SA in the city of Lapa, Parana state, Brazil, March 21, 2017. /Reuters U.S. President Joe Biden said on Wednesday that he is "looking" at pos

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Group linked to Russia is behind hacking of world's largest meatpacking company - report

Hacking group REvil is best known for attacking Quanta Computer, an Apple supplier, earlier this year.

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Taking Lyft’s new e-bike for a spin

The bike had none of the usual signage when I took it for a spin around the chaotic and construction-filled streets of Manhattan. It very much looked like a prototype, with visible soldering on the jo

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Asparagus recipe crops up by mistake in Belgium's official gazette

The asparagus recipe was probably a copy-and-paste error while updating the online database of legal documents. /CFP Asparagus is still in season in Belgium, and the shoots have sprung up in a

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Russia in contact with U.S. over cyber attack on meatpacker JBS

Russia is in direct contact with the United States about a ransomware attack on Brazil's JBS SA, Interfax news agency cited Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov as saying on Wednesday.The attack on

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Biden announces measures to narrow racial wealth gap

U.S. President Joe Biden addresses the ceremony of the centennial anniversary of the Tulsa race massacre at the Greenwood Cultural Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S., June 1, 2021. /Reuters U.S.

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Nevada lawmakers pass bill that would make it first presidential primary state

The Nevada state Senate passed a bill on Monday that calls for making the state the first to hold a presidential primary in the 2024 election.The Nevada Senate passed t

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Tulsa Race Massacre remembered 100 years after the terror

03:06 100 years ago, the arrest of a Black man for allegedly assaulting a White woman sparked perhaps the worst episode of racial violence in U.S. history.Hundreds of Blacks were killed

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Tulsa searches for bodies of 1921 massacre victims

03:21 All eyes are on Tulsa, Oklahoma, as the city commemorates the 100-year anniversary of the race massacre there.Hundreds of Black Tulsans are believed to have been killed after a wh

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The Tulsa Massacre is emblematic of America's reflex to forget

Editor's note: Thomas O. Falk is a London-based political analyst and commentator. He holds a Master of Arts in international relations from the University of Birmingha

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The Tulsa Massacre is emblematic of America's reflex to forget

Editor's note: Thomas O. Falk is a London-based political analyst and commentator. He holds a Master of Arts in international relations from the University of Birmingha

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Two dead, more than 20 injured in Florida shooting

Two people have died and more than 20 were injured in a shooting outside a billiards club in Hialeah, a town to the north of Miami in Florida, police said early on Sund

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China condemns false statement on Xinjiang by LA Times

The Los Angeles Times published an editorial on the so-called "genocide" and "forced labor" in Xinjiang and advocated boycotting Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games on Friday.A spokesperson of the C

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"Black Wall Street" before and after the Tulsa Race Massacre

Before and after the Tulsa Race Massacre in“Black Wall Street,”1921 Click arrows to view gallery The Greenwood district of Tulsa, in the U.S. state of Oklahoma, also kno

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Questions about COVID origins overshadow U.S.-China trade talks

03:05 Trade negotiators from China and the U.S. have held their first meeting under the Biden presidency. The talks coincide with the fallout over President Joe Biden asking his intelli