Three package bombings in Texas are linked, police say; two people killed Residents of a home on the eastern edge of Austin rose Monday to find a package that they weren’t expecting outside the front door. In this era of internet shopping, such brown boxes are ubiquitous. So they took […]
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Landmines on the Road to the Trump-Kim Summit As President Donald Trump enthusiastically endorses a summit with someone he effectively threatened to kill just a few weeks ago, one imagines a man waving a piece of paper while declaring “peace in our time.” In fact, the comparison between Trump’s plan […]
Trump Blocks Broadcom’s Bid for Qualcomm President Trump on Monday blocked Broadcom’s $117 billion bid for the chip maker Qualcomm, citing national security concerns and sending a clear signal that he was willing to take extraordinary measures to promote his administration’s increasingly protectionist stance. In a presidential order, Mr. Trump […]
House ends Russia probe, says no Trump-Kremlin collusion House Intelligence Committee Republicans closed their investigation of Russian election interference Monday, declaring they found no evidence that President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign cooperated with the Kremlin, a conclusion Trump quickly celebrated — but which Democrats called premature and even misleading. Soon […]
House Republicans break with intelligence community on Russia Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee reached an opposite conclusion Monday from the intelligence community they oversee, announcing that Russian President Vladimir Putin was not trying to help Donald Trump win the 2016 election. The Republicans also said they found no evidence […]
White House backs off call to raise minimum age to buy long guns The White House announced a series of recommendations Sunday night meant to stop school shootings, including a full audit and review of the FBI tip line after warnings about a student who killed 17 people at a […]
White House proposes arming teachers, backpedals on raising age to buy guns The Trump administration on Sunday night proposed providing some school personnel with “rigorous” firearms training and backed a bill to improve criminal background checks on gun buyers, but backpedaled on the idea of increasing the minimum age to […]
FBI arrests CEO of company selling custom BlackBerrys to gangs Custom, extra-secure BlackBerry phones remain a staple of the criminal underworld, and a recent bust just illustrated this point. Motherboard has learned that the FBI arrested Vincent Ramos, the founder of the well-established phone mod seller Phantom Secure, for allegedly […]
Plane flying from UAE to Turkey crashes in Iran, killing 11 A Turkish private jet flying a group of young women from the United Arab Emirates to Istanbul crashed Sunday in heavy rain in a mountainous region of Iran, killing all 11 people on board, authorities said. Days earlier, the […]
2 dead, 3 hurt after helicopter crashes into East River as pilot frees himself and escapes A helicopter chartered for a photo shoot plunged into the East River Sunday evening, killing two passengers in a devastating crash that was caught on video. Three passengers were also hurt during the 11-minute […]
