If you’re an introvert, you likely value your alone time. You think before you speak. You’d much rather socialize one-on-one than in a group. A phone call is probably your worst nightmare. But most of all, you are silently strong. It can be tough to prefer to be alone in a world …

(Reuters) – Microchip Technology Inc said on Thursday it would buy Microsemi Corp, the largest U.S. commercial supplier of military and aerospace semiconductor equipment, for about $8.35 billion. The deal comes amid a new wave of consolidation in the semiconductor industry that included Singapore-based chipmaker Broadcom Ltd unveiling a $117 …

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Facing pressure from striking, chanting teachers who filled the Capitol again Thursday, West Virginia’s Senate majority refused to take up their pay raise legislation, angering protesters and causing schools across the state to stay closed Friday. West Virginia Education Association union locals upset by the Senate …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday called for a federal lawsuit against opioid companies and stiffer penalties for drug dealers, arguing that the government must take a strong approach to combat an opioid addiction epidemic. Trump said that he had urged Attorney General Jeff Sessions to take …

The Senate Intelligence Committee has found that Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee are responsible for leaking to Fox News confidential text messages between the Senate panel’s highest ranking Democrat and a Washington lobbyist associated with a Russian billionaire, sources familiar with the situation told The New York Times on Thursday.  …

President Vladimir Putin made a new claim that Russia's nuclear capabilities could reach the coast of Florida.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump announced on Thursday he would impose hefty tariffs on imported steel and aluminum to protect U.S. producers, risking retaliation from major trade partners like China, Europe and neighboring Canada as well as helping to trigger a large selloff on Wall Street.     Trump said …

BIRMINGHAM, England (Reuters) – Mariya Lasitskene and Danil Lysenko could not represent their banned home nation of Russia at the world indoor championships on Thursday but, competing as neutral athletes, the spring-heeled pair still leapt to high jump gold. Lasitskene, one of the world’s most dominant athletes in her event, …

A Bass Pro Shops store in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Rex Shutterstock Bass Pro Shops is the last one standing. Following the high school shooting in Parkland, Florida, that claimed the lives of 17 students and teachers, the polarizing gun debate has raged past Capitol Hill to the very entities that …

(Reuters) – Weinstein Co’s board on Thursday met with a potential buyers’ group at the New York attorney general’s office in a last-resort attempt to avoid bankruptcy and a government lawsuit, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people with knowledge of the talks. The discussions, prompted by billionaire investor Ron …