| June 12 North Korea summit "may not work out": Trump
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 US Donald Trump today suggested that his historic summit with Kim Jong-un "may not work out" even as he asserted that the North Korean leader was "serious" about denuclearisation. Trump met his South Korean counterpart Moon Jae-in at the White House as the fate of the much-awaited June 12 Singapore summit between him Trump and Kim loomed large. As he welcomed Moon in the Oval Office, Trump told reporters that it will be great if his meeting with Kim takes place as scheduled, but if did not, it will take place later "We're moving along. We'll see what happens," Trump said in response to a question. "There's a very substantial chance that it won't work out. That doesn't mean that it won't work out over a period of time, but it may not work out for June 12," Trump said in the Oval Office where he hosted Moon. Trump and Kim are scheduled to meet in Singapore on June 12. However, North Korea has threatened to cancel the meeting over a joint US-South Korea military exercise. The US has ...
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| The Texas school shooter can't get the death penalty
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 • The suspected Santa Fe high-school shooter cannot be sentenced to death or life in prison without possibility of parole. • That's because the suspect is just 17 years old. • Two recent Supreme Court rulings have found it unconstitutional to impose death or mandatory life sentences on defendants who are under the age of 18. The teenager who allegedly gunned down 10 of his high-school classmates and teachers in a grisly rampage in Santa Fe, Texas, on Friday will never get the death penalty or a mandatory life sentence. • The Santa Fe shooter reportedly had a 15-minute gun battle with police before surrendering • Texas school resource officers are being praised as 'heroes' for quickly confronting the Santa Fe shooter in the middle of the attack • The Santa Fe shooting suspect used his father's guns to carry out the attack, governor says Read more...
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| Looking at sanctions against ZTE: Trump
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 President Donald Trump said today that at the request of Chinese President Xi Jinping, the US was looking at sanctions against the Chinese telecom giant ZTE. He was responding to questions on the criticism by his political opponents on his decision asking the Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross to review the sanctions against ZTE. "As far as ZTE is concerned, the president (Xi) asked me to look into it and I am doing that. And don't forget, for the ones that say 'Oh maybe Trump is getting a little bit easy', ZTE, we closed it. It wasn't another administration. It was this administration that closed it," Trump told reporters at the White House. "It's a phone company. A very large phone company. But it's also a phone company that buys a large portion of its parts that make up these phones that are sold all over the world, from American companies," Trump argued. "So when you do that, you're really hurting American companies also. I'm looking at it. But we were the ones that closed it. It ...
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| Trump's campaigning hard — against the Russia probe
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 President Donald Trump's unproved assertions that the FBI spied on his campaign put a twist on an old trial lawyer's saying. "If the facts are against you, argue the law," the saying goes. "If the law is against you, argue the facts. If the law and the facts are against you, pound the table." Or...
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| The Most Popular Mobile Payment App Isn't Apple Pay … It's Starbucks
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 In an era in which an ecommerce platform is a personal assistant and a social media platform is a news source, it is perhaps not surprising that a coffee company can also be a bank. According to market research firm eMarketer, 23.4 million consumers ages 14 and up will use the Starbucks app to make...
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| Instagram Will Soon Allow Users to Mute Accounts Without Unfollowing Them
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 Instagram is testing a way for users to mute posts from accounts they follow without having to actually unfollow those accounts. The Facebook-owned photo- and video-sharing network said this feature--which it aims to roll out "in the coming weeks"--will make it easier for users to personalize their feeds, adding, "We've also heard it may be...
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| 4 Ways to Use Social to Enhance Your Integrated Marketing Campaign
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 As a concept, integrated marketing has made its way from crawling to running, being picked up by brands as a method of storytelling through consistency. And it's a smart move: Kantar Millward Brown's report, AdReaction: The Art of Integration, found that consumers overwhelmingly believed that integrated marketing campaigns help build brands, with 65 percent having...
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| 5 Tips to Avoid Becoming the Next Boycotted Brand
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 Social isn't what it used to be. It's no longer an organic community building tool; it's a hyper-targeted and performance-driven paid media channel. However, its power to influence and impact businesses has never been stronger. It's capable of creating breakout brands, huge valuations and inciting societal change. But like all technology, it's a two-sided coin....
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| UM Hires Global Chief Financial Officer Away From WebMD
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 Universal McCann's new global chief financial officer is a familiar face. The agency brought Jason Rosenbaum back to take on the role, following around three and a half years at WebMD, where he served as vice president, strategic pricing and yield management. UM global CEO Daryl Lee announced the appointment in an internal memo last...
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