WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump said he will introduce legislation that may scrap or weaken a law that has protected internet companies, including Twitter and Facebook, in an extraordinary attempt to intervene in the media. Trump signed an executive order on Thursday afternoon after attacking Twitter for tagging his tweets for the first time
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FILE PHOTO: The Twitter logo and binary cyber codes are seen in this illustration taken November 26, 2019. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Twitter has flagged a tweet written in March by a Chinese government spokesman that suggested the U.S. military brought the novel coronavirus to China, as the social media platform ramps up
FILE PHOTO: A new logo of German carmaker Volkswagen is unveiled at the VW headquarters in Wolfsburg, Germany September 9, 2019. REUTERS/Fabian Bimmer BEIJING (Reuters) – Anhui Jianghuai Automobile Group (JAC Motors) (600418.SS) said on Friday that German automaker Volkswagen AG (VOWG_p.DE) agreed to buy 50% of its parent company Anhui Jianghuai Automobile Group Holding.
Ditch plastic, not good hair days It’s estimated that the equivalent of one garbage truck full of plastic is dumped into the ocean every minute. Swapping your go-to bottled shampoo and conditioner for packaging-free bars is an easy way to cut down on plastic waste. A single palm-sized bar can last up to 80 washes,
(Reuters) – Comedian Chris Rock and actress Rosie Perez made a surprise appearance at New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s daily news conference to underscore his message that the public should wear masks to help curb the coronavirus pandemic. The celebrities, both of whom grew up in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, said they
It has been a hell of a season for the top-rated, longstanding medical drama. If Grey’s Anatomy Season 16 didn’t do anything else, it kept fans talking. It had love triangles, relationship drama, patient advocacy, mental illness storylines, and the unexpected and shocking exit of veteran actor Justin Chambers that left fans and the series
Traders wearing masks work, on the first day of in person trading since the closure during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., May 26, 2020. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid (Reuters) – The S&P 500 and Dow Jones indexes opened higher on Thursday,
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to order a review of a law that has long protected Twitter, Facebook and Alphabet’s Google from being responsible for the material posted by their users, according to a draft executive order and a source familiar with the situation. News of the order comes after Trump
FILE PHOTO: A GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) sign at the GSK research centre in Stevenage, Britain, November 26, 2019. REUTERS/Peter Nicholls LONDON (Reuters) – British drugmaker GSK said on Thursday that its previous flu pandemic vaccine, which used some of the same ingredients as COVID-19 vaccines currently under development, was not linked to a rise in cases
FILE PHOTO: Protesters gather at the scene where George Floyd, an unarmed black man, was pinned down by a police officer kneeling on his neck before later dying in hospital in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S. May 26, 2020. REUTERS/Eric Miller/File Photo (Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Justice said on Thursday it had made its investigation
Ahead of Chromatica‘s official release tomorrow, Lady Gaga released her second collaboration track from the album, her song with K-popgroup Blackpink’s “Sour Candy.” The song is a poppy, sassy track where Blackpink and Lady Gaga inform anyone trying to date them to accept their damage and not try to change it. They may have rough
Exclusive Dimitri Diatchenko — best known for his famous role in “Chernobyl Diaries” — died from an accidental fentanyl and valium overdose. According to the Office of the Medical Examiner in Daytona Beach, Florida … Dimitri’s official cause of death is listed as a combination of fentanyl and diazepam toxicity. He also suffered from cardiomegaly
Looking for something new to watch on Netflix? Here is a list of all the best new shows and movies released on Netflix the week of March 15-22. If you complain about not having anything to watch on Netflix this week, then maybe you should go to Hulu instead, you prickly pear. This week, Netflix
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump will sign an executive order on social media companies on Thursday, White House officials said after Trump threatened to shut down the platform he accused of stifling conservative voices. The officials, who spoke to reporters traveling with Trump to Washington from Florida aboard Air Force One on Wednesday,
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) – SpaceX, billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk’s private rocket company, was forced by foul weather to scrub a planned launch on Wednesday of two Americans into orbit from Florida, a mission that would be the first spaceflight of NASA astronauts from U.S. soil in nine years. NASA astronauts Douglas Hurley and Robert
FILE PHOTO: Micron Technology’s solid-state drive for data center customers is presented at a product launch event in San Francisco, U.S., October 24, 2019. REUTERS/Stephen Nellis (Reuters) – Micron Technology Inc (MU.O) raised its revenue forecast for the third quarter on Wednesday to a range of $5.2 billion to $5.4 billion from $4.6 billion to