Global News
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German automakers are charged up and ready to take on Tesla
German engineering is confronting Silicon Valley audacity head-on, with the future of the German economy at stake.
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After riot, business leaders reckon with their support for Trump
The executives who stood by Trump were ultimately among his enablers, bestowing him with the imprimatur of mainstream business credibility and normalizing a president who has turned the country against itself
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A second Chinese Coronavirus vaccine is said to be effective
Officials in the state of São Paulo, where a prominent medical research institute carried out a large study of the vaccine made by the Beijing-based Sinovac, said the inoculation had an efficacy rate of 78%.
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Trump supporters breach US Capitol
US President Donald Trump's supporters breached the Capitol Hill police on January 6, 2021, as the Senate was in session to ratify President-Elect Joe Biden's Electoral College victory. The mob ransacked the corridors, chambers and offices inside Capitol Hill
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'Dark moment': President-Elect Joe Biden denounces storming of Capitol Hill
Biden appealed for calm and made clear that he held Trump accountable for instigating violence that left members of both parties and allies around the world appalled
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Twitter, Facebook lock Trump's accounts after violence on Capitol Hill
As Donald Trump's slew of inaccurate and inflammatory tweets continued amid the violence on Capitol Hill, social media giants locked the outgoing President's accounts that he has long used as megaphones
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Breach of democracy: The violent end of the Donald Trump era
Coup. Insurrection. Sedition. The Trump presidency, rooted from the beginning in anger, division and conspiracy-mongering, comes to a close with a violent mob storming the Capitol at the instigation of a defeated leader trying to hang onto power as if America were just another authoritarian nation
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Trump bans Alipay and seven other Chinese apps
In the order, the president said that China had been using "bulk data collection" to advance its economic and national security agenda, and that the targeted apps put Americans at risk
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Hundreds of Google employees unionize, culminating years of activism
The union's creation is highly unusual for the tech industry, which has long resisted efforts to organize its largely white-collar workforce.
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In a Topsy-Turvy pandemic world, China offers its version of freedom
While many countries are still reeling from COVID-19, China has become one of the safest places in the world
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Hit Hard by the Pandemic, Mexico's Drug Cartels Tweaked Their Playbook
During the year, some traffickers have increasingly relied on newer tools like drones and cryptocurrency and on creative uses of older approaches like underground tunnels and sea routes.