All news on the topic: United States

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Kanye West deletes entire website, leaving only an offensive $20 t-shirt
Kanye West has seemingly deleted his entire website with the exception of a single t-shirt that features a swastika symbol, available for purchase for $20 (£16.15).
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Son-in-law of notorious cartel leader pleads guilty in the U.S. to violent price-fixing scheme at the border
The son-in-law of a Mexican drug lord pleaded guilty this week to a scheme that used violence and threats to fix prices and control the transnational used-car market at the U.S.-Mexico border.
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The transformation of Elon Musk: Rise of the broligarch
As soon as Donald Trump took office, Elon Musk effectively became the second most powerful figure in the White House.
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Munich security report states US seen as a risk due to Trump’s proposed land grabs
Report published before international summit suggests US is moving away from a global leadership role.
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Looting and fires erupt in Philadelphia following Eagles’ Super Bowl victory
Fans took to the streets of Philadelphia to celebrate after the Eagles dominated the Kansas City Chiefs in Sunday’s Super Bowl.
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Sanctions are bursting at the seams: a superyacht worth $300 million may return to Russian oligarch Kerimov
Russian elites often use a scheme with front persons who have ownership rights to seized property, so selling their confiscated assets is almost impossible from a legal point of view, and they return to their real owners.
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Tesla investors are selling shares: even board members and Elon Musk’s brother are involved
Chief Financial Officer Vaibhav Taneja, Chairwoman of the Board Robyn Denholm, and Kimbal Musk, Elon Musk’s brother and Tesla board member, have sold large amounts of company shares.
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Judge denies Musk team access to Treasury Department records
A federal judge has blocked Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) from accessing the personal financial data of millions of Americans in Treasury Department records, according to court documents.
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Donald Trump revokes Joe Biden’s security clearance in latest act of retribution
US president cites Biden’s removal of Trump’s security clearance in 2021 in the wake of the January 6 attacks and attempts to overturn the 2020 election result.
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Donald Trump declares intention to end Biden’s paper straw rule, calling it ’ridiculous,’ and promote a return to plastic straws
President Donald Trump has sparked widespread celebration among fast food customers as he announced the return of plastic drinking straws.
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UN agency warns that halting US funding could result in six million deaths from HIV and AIDS
More than six million people could die from HIV and AIDS in the next four years if U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration pulls its global funding for programmes, the United Nations AIDS agency said on Friday.
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Despite a record audience, Netflix raises subscription prices in the UK
Analysts warn streaming service needs to tread carefully as its standard subscription rate goes up by 18%.
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Sources say Trump administration to retain only 294 USAID staff out of over 10,000 worldwide
President Donald Trump’s administration plans to keep fewer than 300 staff at the U.S. Agency for International Development out of the agency’s worldwide total of more than 10,000, four sources told Reuters on Thursday.
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New Syrian defense minister states Russia may retain its military bases in the country
In an interview, Murhaf Abu Qasra, a onetime leader in Syria’s insurgency, discussed moves by authorities in Damascus to build new alliances.
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Ex-Celsius CEO requests delay in sentencing amid intricate legal battle
Mashinsky’s defense team argued that the case’s complexity and litigation obligations necessitate sentencing delay.
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Interpreter of baseball star Ohtani jailed for $17 million gambling fraud
Ippei Mizuhara, the former interpreter of Los Angeles Dodgers baseball star Shohei Ohtani, has been sentenced to nearly five years in prison for a fraud and gambling scheme.
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Frantic search underway for Bering Air plane that vanished mid-flight with passengers on board
The Bering Air plane disappeared over Alaska, US, and authorities - including the Nome Volunteer Fire Department - have been scrambled in a desperate operation to find it.
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Disturbed churchgoer attacks priest during live prayer service
A man lunged at a Catholic priest and punched him to the ground during a prayer service while it was being live streamed.
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Authoritarian regimes worldwide celebrate the dismantling of USAid
Elon Musk-led razing of US foreign aid agency led strong-arm rulers in Hungary, Belarus and elsewhere to celebrate.
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Man imprisoned for 10 years for withholding ’Ship of Gold’ treasure location may soon be released
A former deep-sea treasure hunter and research scientist jailed for refusing to disclose the location of 500 missing gold coins may soon be released, after a judge ended the charge, stating he "no longer is convinced that further incarceration is likely to coerce compliance."
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The Silicon Valley prodigy linked to the Zizian trans ’death cult’ is implicated in six killings
’Jack Amadeus LaSota left our lives but not our hearts on August 19 after a boating accident,’ an obituary, published on the Daily News-Miner on September 7 2022, read.
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Donald Trump signs executive order prohibiting trans women athletes from participating in female sports
Donald Trump has signed a flurry of executive orders in his first days and weeks in office, with three targeting transgender people.
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Two more individuals plead guilty in the $250 million Feeding Our Future fraud scheme in the US
Ayan Jama and Mekfira Hussein pleaded guilty to their role in stealing $250 million from a U.S. federal program meant to feed hungry children during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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US military begins flying migrants to Guantanamo Bay for the first time
The first U.S. military aircraft carrying detained migrants to Guantanamo Bay departed on Tuesday, U.S. officials said, as President Donald Trump’s administration prepares to potentially house tens of thousands of migrants at the naval base in Cuba.
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KyberSwap hacker faces a five-count criminal indictment for stealing $65 million
Andean Medjedovic is accused of exploiting DeFi protocols KyberSwap and Indexed Finance.