Ticker: Trump’s trip to Saudi Arabia raises the prospect of US nuclear cooperation with the kingdom

Saudi Arabia wants U S help advancing its own civil nuclear effort and the Trump administration says it s very excited at the prospect U S -Saudi cooperation in building reactors for nuclear power plants could shut the Chinese and Russians out of what could be a high-dollar partnership for the American nuclear industry President Donald Trump is set to visit the kingdom this coming week There are fears that helping the Saudis enrich their own uranium would open new rounds of nuclear proliferation and competition Also Saudi Arabia s pursuit of a nuclear agreement is likely to play into the bargaining on regional guard issues involving the U S Iran and Israel Google will pay Texas B to settle contends the company collected users details without permission Google will pay billion to Texas to settle indicates the company collected evidence on users without permission The state s attorney general publicized the settlement Friday The agreement settles several indicates Texas made against the search giant in related to geolocation incognito searches and biometric figures The state argued Google was unlawfully tracking and collecting users private records Google spokesperson Jos Casta eda disclosed the agreement settles an array of old indicates particular of which relate to product policies the company has already changed Paxton mentioned the billion is the largest amount won by any state in a settlement with Google over this type of data-privacy violations