Trump confirms he called health care bill mean President Donald Trump accused former President Barack Obama of stealing his terminology when Obama said last week that there was a ‘fundamental meanness’ at the core of the Republican health care bill. During an interview on “Fox and Friends” Sunday morning, Trump […]

Trump appoints 19 people to ambassador posts President Trump promised to shake up Washington, but he’s following at least one swampy tradition by nominating wealthy political allies and campaign donors to cushy ambassador posts. While presidents typically dole out about 30 percent of U.S. ambassadorships to political appointees, Mr. Trump […]

BlackBerry misses sales forecasts, shares tumble BlackBerry Ltd (BB.TO) (BBRY.O) posted quarterly revenue that missed analysts’ forecasts due to an unexpected sales decline, pushing shares down as much as 13 percent, which would be their biggest one-day drop in more than two years. The company reported that software and professional […]

Russia threatens to block Telegram messaging app Russia’s communications regulator Roskomnadzor on Friday accused the Telegram messaging app of violating Russian legislation and said it could be blocked if it did not provide it with information about the company that controls Telegram. Roskomnadzor’s head, Alexander Zharov, said in a letter […]

Google to stop scanning Gmail for creating targeted ads Alphabet Inc’s Google said on Friday it would stop scanning Gmail content for creating personalized ads from later this year, bringing the widely-used email service in line with its enterprise offering, G Suite. The decision was outlined in a blog post […]