Sir Graham Brady, chair of the influential 1922 Committee (responsible for hiring and firing Tory leaders) has tabled a Commons motion which would scrap the contentious Irish backstop , in a bid to get a Brexit deal through Parliament. [Full Article...]
At issue are allegations that Chinese companies are stealing intellectual property from USA tech companies. The US Justice Department has filed a host of criminal charges against Chinese telecoms giant Huawei and its chief financial officer, Meng Wanzhou. [Full Article...]
Regime ally Russian Federation has accused the US of trying to stage a coup , and according to a report last week has dispatched about 400 military contractors to help Maduro with security amid street protests that have resulted in multiple deaths amid a military crackdown. [Full Article...]
Listeria monocytogenes can cause possibly fatal infections in children and the elderly. The recall also impacts some nectarines sold at Walmarts in Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia, as well as select peaches from Walmarts in Kentucky, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. [Full Article...]
I wish people would read or listen to my words on the Border Wall. "Although this funding battle has ended, the next one starts in a few weeks, which may reduce growth expectations if businesses and financial markets begin to expect that Congress and the president will repeat the experience again and again", the agency said. [Full Article...]
If you did, you would care for their safety, not just their paychecks. As part of the deal, a bipartisan committee of House and Senate lawmakers is being formed to review border security recommendations. "We just want them to come down there on the line and actually see where the whole argument is about". But Customs and Border Protection has filled only about 2,000 positions, says the Times ... [Full Article...]
It comes ahead of crucial votes in Parliament tomorrow. "We are extremely concerned that our customers will be among the first to experience the realities of a no deal Brexit ", the letter says. He claimed the change to the deal would include a form of time limit or exit mechanism that would allow the United Kingdom to "free" itself from the agreement. [Full Article...]
Bitcoin investors are abandoning crypto in favor of traditional commodities like gold amid the prolonged market slump. "Interestingly, we just polled 4,000 bitcoin investors". " Gold is a store of value and there's no disputing that ". Van Eck's gold ETF, the GDX gold miners ETF and the GDXJ junior gold miners ETF , have been doing well in the past few months, as they're "starting to zig ... [Full Article...]