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TOSHIBA’S SURVIVAL IN DOUBT AMID WESTINGHOUSE TROUBLES
TOKYO (AP) – Toshiba Corp., whose U.S. nuclear unit Westinghouse Electric Co. has filed for bankruptcy protection, raised doubts Tuesday about its ability to survive as a company. …
VIDEO COULD INVITE SUMMER TRAVEL BOYCOTT AGAINST UNITED
CHICAGO (AP) – Minutes after a passenger recorded a video showing security officers dragging a man off an overbooked United Express flight at O’Hare Airport, a smaller snippet of video showed another troubling scene. …
US STOCK INDEXES SLIDE IN AFTERNOON TRADING; OIL REBOUNDS
U.S. stocks slid broadly lower in afternoon trading Tuesday, led by declines in banks and technology companies. Bond yields fell and the price of gold rose as investors monitored heightened tensions between the U.S. and North Korea. Oil prices recovered after an early slide. …
GOOGLE REFUTES CHARGES OF GENDER PAY GAP
NEW YORK (AP) – Google said it’s “taken aback ” by the government’s claim that it doesn’t compensate women fairly.
The company said it conducts “rigorous analyses” that its pay practices are gender-blind and found “no gender pay gap” in 52 major job categories it analyzed last year. Google added that analysts who calculate suggested pay don’t have access to employees’ gender data.
Google also said that beyond gender pay equity, the company recently expanded the analysis to cover race in the U.S. as well.
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TRUMP SAYS “PLEASANT SURPRISES” ON NAFTA TALKS
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump promised “pleasant surprises” from planned renegotiations of the decades-old North American Free Trade Agreement. Trump spoke at a White House meeting Tuesday with business leaders who are part of his strategic and policy forum. …
DEMS: TRUMP’S TAX SECRECY COMPLICATES LEGISLATIVE OVERHAUL
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Senate’s top Democrat said Tuesday that President Donald Trump’s refusal to release his tax returns is going to make this year’s promised overhaul of the tax code “much harder.” Sen. Charles Schumer says Trump is opening himself to second guessing about his motives for supporting different policies and that the average American will think he’s making changes because “it’s good for him.”
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TRUMP TO CHINA: HELP ON NORTH KOREA FOR A GOOD TRADE DEAL
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says he tried to persuade China’s leader last week to pressure North Korea to stop its nuclear program in exchange for a good trade deal with the U.S. …
TILLERSON, TOP DIPLOMATS HOLD URGENT MEETING ON SYRIA CRISIS
LUCCA, Italy (AP) — With fresh urgency but scant solutions, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and top foreign diplomats held an urgent meeting Tuesday to strategize on a way forward to end the protracted civil war in Syria. …
UNITED PASSENGER’S REMOVAL SPARKS OUTRAGE IN CHINA
BEIJING (AP) – Images of a bloodied man being forcibly removed from a United Airlines flight in Chicago drew widespread condemnation in China, where state media fueled the public’s anger with reports that noted the unidentified victim was an “Asian passenger.” Video of the violent incident posted on China’s popular Twitter-like microblogging service Weibo had been viewed more than 210 million times by late Tuesday. Many responded with outrage over perceived bias against the passenger and some called for a boycott of the U.S.-based airline.
“Rubbish!” writer Su Danqing posted on Weibo. “When they were treating this Asian man, they never thought of human rights, otherwise they wouldn’t have done it that way.”
US OFFICIAL: RUSSIA KNEW SYRIAN CHEMICAL ATTACK WAS COMING
WASHINGTON (AP) – The United States has concluded that Russia knew ahead of time that Syria would launch a chemical weapons attack last week, a senior U.S. official says. …
SESSIONS TO TOUR ARIZONA-MEXICO BORDER TUESDAY
NOGALES, Ariz. (AP) – U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Tuesday will take a tour of the U.S.-Mexico border during a visit to Arizona. …
DEMS UNIFIED IN OPPOSITION TO TRUMP, BUT WHAT COMES NEXT?
ATLANTA (AP) — President Donald Trump is a unifying force for Democrats, bringing together disparate factions in opposition to nearly every presidential move. …
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