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

Saudi Arabia wants U S help progressing 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 precaution issues involving the U S Iran and Israel Google will pay Texas B to settle contends the company collected users records without permission Google will pay billion to Texas to settle alleges the company collected material on users without permission The state s attorney general communicated the settlement Friday The agreement settles several states Texas made against the search giant in related to geolocation incognito searches and biometric facts The state argued Google was unlawfully tracking and collecting users private details Google spokesperson Jos Casta eda reported the agreement settles an array of old insists specific of which relate to product policies the company has already changed Paxton reported the billion is the largest amount won by any state in a settlement with Google over this type of data-privacy violations