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Chinese Vice Premier Liu He (2nd L) says goodbye to U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin as they break from meetings at the USTR offices May 10, 2019

The US-China tariff battle is the beginning of a global trade reorder

The prediction comes as the U.S. and China continue to square off in a trade war that has turned the global markets upside down.
Bottles of medication made by Teva Pharmaceutical Industries.

Drug companies inflate prices over 1,000%; 44 U.S. states are suing

44 U.S. states filed a lawsuit in which they're accusing Teva Pharmaceuticals USA of orchestrating a scheme with 19 other drug companies to inflate drug prices
The loading screen of the Facebook app

Facebook co-founder calls on the government to break up the company

Facebook co-founder in a New York Times editorial today said the social networking giant has become a corporate monopoly with too much power and said the federal government needs to step in and break up the company.
Vehicles wade through flooded Kingwood Drive as deadly thunderstorms hit the Kingwood area Tuesday, May 7, 2019, in Texas.

Deadly thunderstorms leave a trail of destruction across south-central US

Deadly thunderstorms unleashed baseball-sized hail, flooding rainfall and numerous tornadoes across western portions of Texas and Oklahoma Tuesday into late Wednesday
Electoral commission agents start counting the votes in Wednesday May 8, 2019 general elections in Johannesburg, South Africa

South Africa election: ANC in the lead

South Africa - With results declared in some 23% of districts, the ANC has won about 55% of the ballot, well...
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has reportedly encouraged the president to reach a deal with China quickly and avoid political blowback from a trade war in 2020

Trade war threatens to enrage 2020 race as Republicans complain about the tariffs

President Trump’s aggressive trade policies are running head first into his campaign for reelection.
The flags of member nations fly outside the General Assembly building at the United Nations headquarters in New York.

UN to conclude hearings on Qatar’s complaint against the UAE and Saudi Arabia

UN - The Committee on Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD) concluded its work after reviewing the complaint submitted...
Obama put bumblebees on the endangered species list—and Trump's EPA is likely to let them keep dying

Humans Are Speeding Up Extinction and Altering the Natural World

Up to 1 million of the estimated 8 million plant and animal species on Earth are at risk of extinction — many of them within decades — according to scientists and researchers who produced a sweeping U.N. report on how humanity's burgeoning growth is putting the world's biodiversity at perilous risk.
People stroll through a shopping district in the southern city of Shenzhen. Tax cuts will be one of the methods used to support the Chinese economy.

No matter what Trump says, tariffs aren’t boosting the American economy

In threatening an escalation of a trade war with China over the weekend, President Donald Trump claimed that the tariffs already in place have boosted the economy.
Moscow airport plane fire: Forty-one people killed in Aeroflot crash landing

41 dead after Aeroflot plane’s emergency landing, fire at Sheremetyevo Airport

41 people were killed Sunday after a Russian airliner made a hard emergency landing and caught fire at Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport, officials said.

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