As China and the U.S. near a new round of trade talks, President Donald Trump said Friday he doesn’t feel he needs to secure an agreement before next year’s election. Trump told reporters he wants a complete deal with China and won’t accept one that only addresses some of the differences between the two nations.
“I’m not looking for a partial deal, I’m looking for a complete deal,” Trump said during a press conference with Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison.
For more than a year, the world’s two largest economies have been locked in a high-stakes duel marked by Trump’s escalating penalties on Chinese goods and Beijing’s retaliatory tariffs.
Trump continued to try to paint a dark picture of the Chinese economy ahead of talks that resume next month in Washington. Negotiators from the two countries are also engaging in discussions over the next two weeks to lay the groundwork for the October session.
“China is being affected very badly. We’re not,” Trump insisted.
Three Mile Island reactors shuts down
The money-losing Three Mile Island, the 1979 site of the United States’ worst commercial nuclear power accident, was shut down Friday by its energy giant owner.
The end of the 45-year electricity-producing career of Three Mile Island Unit 1 came after Chicago-based Exelon Corp. tried and failed to get financial aid from Pennsylvania in the spring.
Three Mile Island’s Unit 1 opened in 1974 and was licensed to operate through 2034, but Exelon complained the plant was losing money in competitive electricity markets. Three Mile Island also faced particularly difficult economics because the 1979 accident that destroyed Unit 2 left it with just one reactor.
Decommissioning Unit 1, dismantling its buildings and removing spent fuel could take six decades and cost more than $1 billion, Exelon estimates. The destroyed Unit 2 is sealed, and its twin cooling towers remain standing.
Work to dismantle Unit 2 is scheduled to begin in 2041 and be completed in 2053, its owner, FirstEnergy, has said.
Facebook suspends 69,000 more apps
Facebook indicated on Friday that the scale of its data privacy issues was far larger than it had previously acknowledged, as it suspended tens of thousands of apps for transgressions that included improperly sucking up its users’ personal information.
The social network said in a blog post that an investigation it began in March 2018 – following revelations that Cambridge Analytica, a British consultancy, had improperly retrieved and used people’s Facebook information without their permission – had resulted in the suspension of “tens of thousands” of apps that were associated with about 400 developers. That was far bigger than the last number that Facebook had disclosed, of 400 app suspensions in August 2018.
Court documents showed that Facebook had suspended 69,000 apps. Of those, the majority were terminated because the developers did not cooperate with Facebook’s investigation; 10,000 were flagged for potentially misappropriating personal data from Facebook users.
Food City expands same-day delivery
Food City is expanding its new same-day delivery service into several more markets, including in Dalton and Ringgold, Georgia, and from its Tennessee Avenue store in Chattanooga.
The program is made possible through a joint partnership between the supermarket chain and Instacart, a nationwide on-demand grocery delivery service.
To take advantage of the service, shoppers need to visit the website at foodcitydelivers.com or download the Instacart App to fill their virtual carts with their items, including fresh produce, meats and everyday essentials, according to the grocer.
Orders will be delivered to their doorsteps, often in as little as an hour. During the online checkout process, customers will be prompted to enter their Food City ValuCard number to take advantage of added savings and Fuel Bucks, and choose a delivery window ranging from within one or two hours, up to five days in advance. Instacart shoppers will do the rest, the company said.
“Food City is committed to providing our loyal customers with the best products and services possible,” said Steven C. Smith, Food City president and chief executive officer.
The new service is now available in 104 locations, the company said.