Global News
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China's leader wants a 'lovable' country. That doesn't mean he's making nice
China is engaged in a "public opinion struggle," China's top leader, Xi Jinping, told senior Communist Party officials early last week
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Wealthiest executives paid little to nothing in federal income taxes, report says
The 25 richest Americans, including Jeff Bezos, Michael Bloomberg and Elon Musk, paid relatively little and sometimes nothing, in federal income taxes from 2014 to 2018 according to an analysis from the news organization ProPublica
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Bezos will fly aboard Blue Origin's first human trip to space
The trip may bring some renewed attention to Blue Origin, which has taken a slower approach to the development of its vehicles than the other companies, and recently lost out to Musk's company in a bid to build the next lander that would carry NASA astronauts back to the moon
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Google will pay $270 million to settle antitrust charges in France
The agreement was one of the first times an antitrust regulator had taken direct aim at Google's online advertising infrastructure, a platform that scores of websites worldwide rely on to sell ads
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As vaccines turn pandemic's tide, US and Europe diverge on path forward
The divergent strategies of European nations and the United States also reflect broader differences in how Western governments are thinking about their responsibility to unvaccinated people
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Facebook says Donald Trump's ban will last at least 2 years
The social network said Trump would be eligible for reinstatement in January 2023, before the next presidential election
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India and Israel inflame Facebook's fights with its own employees
Discontent at Facebook has surged over its recent handling of international affairs with workers grilling top executives and in one case, forming a group to internally report Palestinian content that they believe Facebook had wrongly removed
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Tasked to fight climate change, a secretive UN agency does the opposite
The International Maritime Organization has repeatedly delayed and watered down climate regulations, even as emissions from commercial shipping continue to rise, a trend that threatens to undermine the goals of the 2015 Paris climate accord
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United Airlines wants to bring back supersonic air travel
The airline said it was ordering 15 jets that can travel faster than the speed of sound from Boom Supersonic, a startup in Denver, with an option to increase its order by up to 35 planes
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Facebook plans to end hands-off approach to politicians' posts
The change, which is tied to Facebook's decision to bar former President Donald Trump from its site, is a retreat from a policy introduced less than two years ago, when the company said speech from politicians was newsworthy and should not be policed
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New NASA missions will study Venus, a world overlooked for decades
In the past year, a neglected Venus reentered the planetary limelight after a team of scientists claimed they had discovered compelling evidence for microbes living in the clouds of Venus where temperatures remain comfortably warm instead of scorching