Kevin Lamarque | Reuters President Donald Trump speaks as French President Emmanuel Macron looks on during their joint news conference at the White House in Washington, U.S., April 24, 2018. French President Emmanuel Macron is in Washington this week on a charm offensive with a mission: to convince his counterpart …

Ethan Miller | Getty Images Former Wynn Resorts’ CEO Steve Wynn at the Venetian Las Vegas on September 30, 2014. After the allegations surfaced, the stock took an immediate hit but has since recovered. Maddox has claimed he had no prior knowledge of sexual misconduct complaints against Steve Wynn. Since …

Several companies, from chipmaker Nvidia to toymaker Hasbro, are reporting the impact of a shortage of truck drivers on their businesses. “Trucking is right now … experiencing a severe crisis,” Robert Csongor, vice president and general manager of automotive at Nvidia, said during the company’s March 27 investor day. “There’s …

Twitter fell more than 5 percent Wednesday morning after an earnings beat that initially sent shares as high as 13 percent in premarket trading. The social media company beat on both the top and bottom lines in the first quarter, and shares opened 2.9 percent up at $31.35 after trading …

Bob Christie | AP In this April 6, 2017, file photo, Arizona state Sen. Debbie Lesko speaks in the Senate chambers in Phoenix. Republican Debbie Lesko is the projected winner of Arizona’s House special election, allowing the party to breathe a sigh of relief as it holds on to a …

Brianna Soukup | Portland Press Herald | Getty Images Ryan Purington, an employee at Lucky Juju, holds a JUUL vape in his hand. The store started stocking the vapes last month and Purington said that they are ‘flying off’ the shelves because they are discreet, easy to use and powerful. …

Per-Anders Pettersson | Corbis News | Getty Images Chinese construction workers build the new African Union building on November 17, 2010, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. China has poured tens of billions of dollars into Africa’s development, but the continent’s countries need a better strategy in order to properly reap the …

Victor J. Blue | Bloomberg | Getty Images Carl Icahn, billionaire activist investor, waits for Donald Trump, president and chief executive of Trump Organization Inc. and 2016 Republican presidential candidate, not pictured, to speak at an election night event in New York, U.S., on Tuesday, April 19, 2016. Billionaire investor …

Galerie Bilderwelt | Getty Images Operation Unicorn nuclear test, May 22 1970. Artificial intelligence (AI) could potentially result in a nuclear war by 2040, according to a research paper by a U.S. think tank. The paper, by the nonprofit RAND Corporation, warns that AI could erode geopolitical stability and remove …

Kevin Lamarque | Reuters President Donald Trump hosts a bilateral meeting with Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida U.S., April 17, 2018. More and more democratically-elected world leaders have openly sought to fuel a climate of hatred towards the media over the last …