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BUSINESS / Tech
Apr 2, 2019
Google's new external AI ethics council apparently already falling apart
Google recently appointed an external ethics council to deal with tricky issues in artificial intelligence. The group is meant to help the company appease critics while still pursuing lucrative cloud computing deals.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Apr 2, 2019
Trump declares U.S. census 'meaningless' without citizenship question
U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday injected himself into one of the most consequential cases of the current Supreme Court term, saying the nation's 2020 census would be "meaningless" without adding a citizenship question to the questionnaire.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Apr 2, 2019
Trump team heightens effort to return asylum seekers to Mexico
The Trump administration is intensifying measures to curb the flow of Central American asylum seekers crossing into the United States from Mexico, officials said on Monday, including sending more people back to Mexico to wait for their asylum claims to be heard by U.S. courts.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Apr 1, 2019
Moon hopes North Korea responds positively to U.S.-South Korea efforts
South Korean President Moon Jae-in said Monday that he hopes North Korea responds positively when he meets U.S. President Donald Trump this month as part of efforts to restart denuclearization talks with the North.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Apr 1, 2019
Pope hits leaders who build walls to keep migrants out, saying they ultimately imprison themselves
Pope Francis said on Sunday that political leaders who want walls and other barriers to keep migrants out "will end up becoming prisoners of the walls they build.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Apr 1, 2019
China will continue to suspend extra tariffs on U.S. vehicles and auto parts
China's State Council said on Sunday that the country would continue to suspend additional tariffs on U.S. vehicles and auto parts after April 1, in a goodwill gesture following a U.S. decision to delay tariff hikes on Chinese imports.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Apr 1, 2019
Border row pitches noninterventionist Mexican president into deep water with Trump
Donald Trump's threat to shut the U.S. border if Mexico does not halt all illegal immigration has exposed the limitations of the new Mexican government's strategy of trying to appease the U.S. president as he gears up for re-election.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Apr 1, 2019
Trump's sale of F-16 fighters to Taiwan seen making China nervous politically
The U.S. may finally sell Taiwan the warplanes it has sought for more than a decade to defend against China. Their arrival would deal more of a political shock than a military blow to Beijing.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Apr 1, 2019
Trump aides repeat threat to shut down U.S.-Mexico border on 'melting point' migrant crisis
The Trump administration on Sunday doubled down on its threat to shut down the southern border with Mexico, a day after it cut aid to Central American countries which President Donald Trump accused of deliberately sending migrants to the United States.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Mar 30, 2019
With a piece of paper, Trump called on Kim to hand over all nuclear, chemical and biological weapons
On the day that their talks in Hanoi collapsed last month, U.S. President Donald Trump handed North Korean leader Kim Jong Un a piece of paper that included a blunt call for the transfer of Pyongyang's nuclear weapons and bomb fuel to the United States.
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 30, 2019
Trump tells why new sanctions on Pyongyang are not necessary: North Koreans already 'suffering greatly'
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday that he decided not to put additional sanctions on North Korea a week earlier because he wanted to maintain a good relationship with leader Kim Jong Un and because the North Korean people are already "suffering greatly."
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Mar 30, 2019
U.S. and China report progress in Beijing trade talks as Trump pushes for 'great deal'
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday that trade talks with China were going very well, but cautioned that he would not accept anything less than a "great deal" after top U.S. and Chinese trade officials wrapped up two days of negotiations in Beijing.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Mar 30, 2019
Mueller report on Trump and Russia to be made public by mid-April, U.S. attorney general says
U.S. Attorney General William Barr plans to make public a redacted copy of special counsel Robert Mueller's nearly 400-page investigative report into Russian interference in the 2016 election by mid-April, "if not sooner," he said in a letter to lawmakers on Friday.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 29, 2019
I told you so: Only idiots believed in Russiagate
Whatever credibility U.S. media still had after pimping those imaginary Iraqi WMDs and 'experts' repeatedly reporting that Trump had no chance of winning, now lies in tatters.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Mar 29, 2019
South Korea's Moon to visit White House next month in bid to salvage Kim-Trump nuclear talks
In a bid to salvage broken-down nuclear negotiations with North Korea, U.S. President Donald Trump and South Korean leader Moon Jae-in plan to hold a summit next month in Washington, the White House has announced.
WORLD / Politics
Mar 29, 2019
Puerto Rico governor slams 'bully' Trump as hurricane relief fight rages on
Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rossello, who has clashed with President Donald Trump over disaster aid and has complained that residents of the U.S. territory are treated like "second-class citizens," indicated that he's tired of being pushed around by the White House.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Mar 29, 2019
Mitch McConnell sets up Senate 'nuclear option' rule change to speed Trump nominees and thwart Democrats
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell plans to force votes next week on a Republican plan to change the Senate's rules to short-circuit Democrats' ability to slow nominations from President Donald Trump.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Mar 29, 2019
Trump adviser Jared Kushner meets Senate intelligence panel for second time in closed session, say sources
President Donald Trump's son-in-law and adviser, Jared Kushner, on Thursday appeared at a closed door meeting of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee for the second time, four congressional sources said.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Entertainment news
Mar 29, 2019
Trump calls Jussie Smollett case 'embarrassment' and announces review
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday that the Department of Justice will "review" the case of actor Jussie Smollett, who was charged with staging a fake hate crime in Chicago before prosecutors abruptly dropped the case this week.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 28, 2019
Trump administration approved secret nuclear power tech sales to Saudi Arabia, document shows
U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry has approved six secret authorizations by companies to sell nuclear power technology and assistance to Saudi Arabia, according to a copy of a document seen by Reuters on Wednesday.

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