Top South Korean negotiators left for the United States Thursday to brief their American counterparts on the outcome of their historic meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un earlier this week. South Korean National Security Office Head Chung Eui-yong revealed few details of the trip as he boarded a plane at Seoul’s Incheon Airport […]

Meghan Markle is one step closer to becoming a royal. The royal bride-to-be was baptized into the Church of England in a secret ceremony on Tuesday evening with fiancé Prince Harry by her side, according to a new report in the Daily Mail by veteran royals columnist Richard Kay. The move is a significant nod to […]

Less than a year after introducing Microsoft Windows 10 S, a lightweight version of Microsoft’s operating system marketed to students and businesses, the company is now folding the separate systems’s main features into every version of Windows. Windows 10 S will now become “S mode” in Windows 10 Home, Windows Pro PC and Windows 10 Enterprise, according […]

Two of Tesla Inc.’s largest shareholders are supporting a plan to award Elon Musk a compensation package valued at $2.6 billion, a show of confidence in the electric-car maker’s bid to keep its visionary CEO around for the long haul. Baillie Gifford & Co. and T. Rowe Price Group Inc., which combined own about 14 percent of Tesla […]

The SEC statement marked an expansion of scrutiny to companies involved with trading, in contrast to previous publications that focused on the digital coins and their developers. “I think the next step here will likely be subpoenas to exchanges, if they haven’t already started,” said Ryan Schoen, senior financial services policy analyst at Washington Analysis. […]

Crypto exchange and wallet Coinbase has announced the creation of both the Coinbase Index Fund and Coinbase Index in a Medium post yesterday, March 6. The Coinbase Index Fund, whose “basket of digital assets” includes all of the Coinbase exchange GDAX’s four coins — Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Litecoin (LTC), Bitcoin Cash (BCH) — is open to all US-resident accredited investors–defined by those having a net worth of more than $1 mln or […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin lavished praise on President Trump on Wednesday, but added that he was sorely disappointed with the U.S. political system, saying that it has been “eating itself up.” Speaking in an interview with the Russian state television, Putin described Trump as a great communicator. “I have no disappointment at all,” Putin said […]

Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump denied Tuesday that his White House was struggling to recruit talented staff, insisting a wealth of potential hires “want a piece of the West Wing.” During a news conference with his Swedish counterpart, Trump also promised his proposed tariffs on steel and aluminum will be applied in a “very loving way,” declared the North […]

If you rise early on Wednesday, March 7 — around 5:00 a.m. — and look to the southern horizon, you will see a rare planetary alignment. Next to a bright quarter moon will be the planet Jupiter, and to its left, Mars, followed by Saturn. Left of Saturn is Pluto, the recently-demoted dwarf planet that will be far too […]

Walt Disney’s (DIS) box office juggernaut “Black Panther” isn’t on the road to just ticket-sale riches. The film could also generate nearly $250 million in licensed merchandise sales in 2018 as companies look to cash in on the cultural phenomenon, according to The Licensing Letter, a trade publication. Though “Black Panther” merchandise sales are dwarfed […]