PRESS DIGEST- New York Times business news - July 17
July 17 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories on the New York Times business pages. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.
- Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Tuesday Iran appeared willing to negotiate over its missile program "for the first time," in what he and U.S. President Donald Trump presented as evidence that sanctions and military pressure were working, less than a month after the president halted a planned military strike against Iran. https://nyti.ms/30H2w25
- A federal judge on Tuesday ordered President Donald Trump's former adviser Roger Stone Jr. off major social media platforms, declaring that he violated a gag order by using them to attack the special counsel's investigation and officials tied to it. https://nyti.ms/30yL5R5
- Critics who sued to block the Trump administration from adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census asked a federal judge on Tuesday to punish administration officials, saying the officials had deliberately delayed the lawsuit in order to hide damning evidence — conduct they called "nothing less than a fraud on the court." https://nyti.ms/30AZbRS
(Compiled by Bengaluru newsroom)
