China “ready to work” with Trump administration, Xi tells Biden

United States President Joe Biden met with Chinese President Xi Jinping for the last time in Peru on Saturday, The Hill reported. Biden met with Xi on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Peru on Saturday. As per The Hill, during the meeting, Xi said that China is “ready to work” with … Read more

Silicon Valley’s pro-Trump VCs and founders once donated millions to Trump. They’ve gone quiet after last week’s insurrection on Capitol Hill.

Sequoia’s Doug Leone donated over $100,000 to Trump’s 2020 election efforts and also donated to Josh Hawley’s 2018 Senate campaign, public records show. As other pro-Trump business people and tech CEOs condemn last week’s Capitol Hill insurrection, Leone has remained quiet, alongside other, deep-pocketed Trump supporters in Silicon Valley. The Capitol Hill riots have renewed … Read more

Trump to give TikTok’s Chinese owner 45 days to agree sale

US officials have said TikTok under its Chinese parent poses a national risk because of the personal data it handles. Trump said on Friday he was planning to ban TikTok in the United States after dismissing the idea of a sale to Microsoft. But following a discussion between Trump and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, the … Read more

U.S. economy shrank at record-breaking 33% rate last quarter

By far the worst quarterly plunge ever — when the viral outbreak shut down businesses, throwing tens of millions out of work and sending unemployment surging to 14.7 %, the government said Thursday. The Commerce Department’s estimate of the second-quarter decline in the gross domestic product, the total output of goods and services, marked the … Read more