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WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The White House's acting national cyber director was informed in recent weeks she would not be considered to serve in a permanent role because of personal debt issues that would make her difficult to confirm, a source with knowledge of the matter said.

Intel Corp and Qualcomm Inc are planning to visit Washington next week to discuss China policy, according to two sources familiar with the matter. The executives plan to hold meetings with U.S. officials to talk about market conditions, export controls and other matters affecting their businesses, one of the sources said.

Intel Corp and Qualcomm Inc are planning to visit Washington next week to discuss China policy, according to two sources familiar with the matter. The executives plan to hold meetings with U.S. officials to talk about market conditions, export controls and other matters affecting their businesses, one of the sources said.

Bitcoin miner ClearSpark has begun the second phase of operations at its mining campus in Washington, in the U.S. state of Georgia, reaching 8.0 exahashes per second (EH/s), halfway to its year-end target of 16.EH/s. 

Kim Jong Un personally oversaw the successful test of the country's newest intercontinental ballistic missile, state media reported Thursday, days after Pyongyang threatened to down any US spy planes that enter its airspace. A beaming Kim, wearing a white suit and flanked by his wife and key aides, was shown in state media images applauding enthusiastically after the launch of the solid-fuel Hwasong-18 on Wednesday. The ICBM, which North Korea has fired only once before, in April, flew 1,001 kilometres at a maximum altitude of 6,648 km before splashing into the East Sea, also known as the Sea of Japan, the official Korean Central News Agency reported.

By Diane Bartz and Frank Pingue

When U.S. investors like Chicago-based Harris Associates started bailing from troubled Credit Suisse earlier this year, one giant global investor doubled its holdings to become the bank’s second-biggest shareholder after the Saudi National Bank.

The European Union has signed off on a new agreement over the privacy of people’s personal information that gets pinged across the Atlantic, aiming to ease concerns about electronic spying by American intelligence agencies

By David Lawder

BEIJING — For foreign businesses in China, geopolitics hold more sway than new Chinese laws, according to analysts.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has appealed to China not to let disagreements about trade and other irritants disrupt cooperation on climate change and other global challenges

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says Washington will listen to Chinese complaints about security-related curbs on U.S. technology exports and might “respond to unintended consequences” as she ended a visit to Beijing aimed at reviving strained relations

The EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework has an adequate level of protection for personal data, the EU's executive commission said. That means it's comparable to the 27-nation's own stringent data protection standards, so companies can use it to move information from Europe to the United States without adding extra security.

Researchers have developed a real-time air monitor that they say can detect any of the SARS-CoV-2 virus variants in a room in about five minutes.

Vice President Kamala Harris, an avid Golden State Warriors fan, took to Twitter to welcome Jordan Poole to Washington D.C. following a blockbuster trade. Harris expressed her fondness for Poole and shared a photo of them together during the Warriors' visit to the White House in January 2023.

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climate change and debt distress. She reiterated that Washington was not seeking to decouple from China's economy, adding doing so would be "disastrous for both countries and destabilizing for the world." But she said the United States wanted to see an "open, free and fair economy," not one that forces countries to take sides. She said she used the discussions to raise "serious concerns" about what she called China's "unfair economic practices" and the recent uptick in coercive actions against the US firms.

Northern Lights will be visible from as many as 17 states across the US. This comes after storms created by gigantic storms were visible from more than 30 states in the US, including Iowa, Kansas, and North Dakota.Northern lights, which is also known as aurora borealis, is a luminous astronomical phenomenon. This is visible in the night sky. Northern lights can be viewed while looking in the direction of pole which is the closest. In the Northern hemisphere, it is the north, and in Southern hemisphere, it is the south. Northern lights is caused by solar winds from the Sun and magnetic field of the Earth. People residing in 17 states in the US will be able to view the Northern lights next week. These 17 states are — 1. North Dakota, 2. South Dakota, 3. Alaska, 4. Indiana, 5. Montana, 6. Wisconsin 7. Minnesota 8. Michigan 9. Maryland 10. Maine 11. New Hampshire 12. New York 13. Vermont 14. Oregon 15. Washington 16. Idaho 17. Wyoming. Northern Lights will be visible on July 12 and July 13. However, weather needs to be clear in order to view Northern Lights, as per reports.

By Andrea Shalal

Prime Day—Amazon’s exclusive annual sale for Prime members—is coming up on July 11 and 12, 2023. With more than 200 million subscribers globally, Prime Day usually clocks some impressive sales numbers. In 2022, Prime Day sales brought in $12 billion for Amazon (AMZN). The world’s largest online retailer, Amazon’s success is one of the main factors behind founder Jeff Bezos’ billions. In fact, Prime Day sales were a driving force behind him being named the richest person on earth in 2018.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen appealed to China on Saturday for cooperation on climate change and other global challenges and not to let disagreements about trade and other irritants derail relations. In a meeting with her Chinese counterpart, Vice Premier He Lifeng, Yellen defended US restrictions on technology exports that rankle Beijing. She said the two governments shouldn't let such disagreements disrupt thriving economic and financial relations.