United States

• Saturday, July 11th 2020 - 08:24 UTC

  Election blues: Hispanic food company owner praises Trump triggering an immediate reaction

  

  Goya Foods, the largest Hispanic-owned US food company and a popular brand among Latino Americans, became the target of a boycott campaign on social media on Friday sparked by its CEO effusively praising President Donald Trump at the White House.

• Saturday, July 11th 2020 - 08:22 UTC

  Wall Street will be looking into asset manager BlackRock earnings next week

  

  Investors will watch next week's earnings from BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager, for a snapshot of how the industry performed during the second quarter's dramatic rebound in global financial markets.

• Saturday, July 11th 2020 - 08:16 UTC

  US announces 25% duties on French products in response to France's digital services tax

  

  The Trump administration on Friday announced additional duties of 25per cent on French cosmetics, handbags and other imports valued at US$1.3 billion in response to France's digital services tax, but would hold off on implementing the move for up to 180 days.

• Saturday, July 11th 2020 - 07:48 UTC

  US welcomes WHO probe into the origins of coronavirus in China

  

  The United States welcomes the World Health Organization's W(HO) probe into the origins of the novel coronavirus in China, its ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva said on Friday.

• Friday, July 10th 2020 - 08:09 UTC

  Lopez Obrador wraps up his White House visit as a cherished friend of Trump

  

  Defying warnings that to seek out Donald Trump was to court disaster, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador instead emerged from their first meeting as a “cherished friend” of his U.S. counterpart, even as some Democrats looked on uneasily.

• Thursday, July 9th 2020 - 09:40 UTC

  Trump and Lopez Obrador underline the outstanding relationship between the two countries

  

  President Donald Trump on Wednesday hailed his “outstanding relationship” with his Mexican counterpart Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador as he welcomed him to the White House for the leaders' first one-on-one meeting.

• Thursday, July 9th 2020 - 09:13 UTC

  Harvard and MIT challenge in court Trump's administration limiting of foreign students visas

  

  US leading universities Harvard and MIT asked a court on Wednesday to block an order by President Donald Trump's administration threatening the visas of foreign students whose entire courses have moved online because of the coronavirus pandemic.

• Thursday, July 9th 2020 - 08:55 UTC

  Federal Reserve officials raise doubts about US recovery durability

  

  Federal Reserve officials raised fresh doubts on Wednesday about the durability of the U.S. recovery, while new business surveys highlighted developing risks from the relentless coronavirus pandemic.

• Thursday, July 9th 2020 - 08:41 UTC

  Surprise, surprise, Mexicans favor closer ties with United States

  

  More Mexicans have warmed to the idea of closer ties with the United States just as President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador lines up his first meeting with US counterpart Donald Trump, a poll showed on Wednesday.

• Wednesday, July 8th 2020 - 06:49 UTC

  StopHateForProfit coalition will continue Facebook ad boycott: no agreement with Zuckerberg

  

  Organizers of the Facebook ad boycott vowed on Tuesday to continue their campaign, saying the social network's top executives had failed to offer meaningful action on curbing hateful content.