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Meta To Pay Trump $25 Million To Settle 2021 Account Ban Lawsuit: Report

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Meta To Pay Trump Million To Settle 2021 Account Ban Lawsuit: Report

Washington: Meta has agreed to pay President Donald Trump $25 million to settle a 2021 lawsuit he filed claiming he was wrongfully censored by Facebook and Instagram after the US Capitol riot, the company said Wednesday. The Wall Street Journal first reported the settlement of the suit brought against Meta and its chief executive Mark…

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Trump Says Will Use Guantanamo Bay To Detain Illegal Migrants

January 29, 2025 admin

Washington: US President Donald Trump said Wednesday he planned to detain “criminal illegal aliens” at the notorious Guantanamo Bay military prison, used for holding terrorism suspects since the 9/11 attacks. Trump made the shock announcement as he signed a bill allowing the pre-trial detention of undocumented migrants charged with theft and violent crime — named…

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White House Cancels Trumps Federal Funding Freeze Amid Chaos: Reports

January 29, 2025 admin

Washington: Rafts of government aid programs and the health care system for millions of low-income Americans were up in the air after Trump ordered a halt to potentially trillions of dollars in grants, loans and other aid late Monday. The move — made in an order from White House’s Office of Management and Budget —…

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Elon Musk’s Fitness To Lead Tesla Questioned Amid ‘Nazi Salute’ Controversy

January 29, 2025 admin

Tesla’s fourth-quarter earnings report is set to release, and investors are eager to know how Elon Musk’s involvement in politics will impact the company’s growth and profitability. With Musk’s high-profile advisory role in Washington, D.C., and his endorsement of far-right candidates, shareholders are questioning whether he’s providing Tesla the focus it needs. Over 100 investor…

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RFK Jr During US Senate Hearing

January 29, 2025 admin

Washington, United States: Robert F Kennedy Jr faced a make-or-break Senate hearing Wednesday where he was grilled on his history of promoting vaccine misinformation and plans to upend US science agencies as he bids to become President Donald Trump’s health secretary. If confirmed, the 71-year-old Kennedy family scion and former environmental lawyer would take the…

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India May Cut Duties On Some Goods From US, Day After Trump’s Tariffs Jab

January 29, 2025 admin

New Delhi: India may cut tariffs on a few high-end goods – such as a special kind of steel, expensive motorcycles, and electronic items – imported from the United States, sources told NDTV Profit Wednesday. Such a move is not likely to have a major impact on the respective domestic industries and this could be…

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Donald Trump Freezes $50 Million To Fund Condoms In Gaza

January 29, 2025 admin

Donald Trump Freezes Million To Fund Condoms In Gaza

The White House on Tuesday justified a sweeping freeze in US overseas assistance by citing a $50 million condom distribution program in the Gaza Strip, without offering evidence to back up the claim. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said the expenditure was discovered in Trump’s first week including by the new Department of Government…

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A Record Number Of US Firms Are Leaving China

January 29, 2025 admin

At a time when the newly elected U.S. President, Donald Trump, is making a pitch to reshore manufacturing to America, its companies operating out of China are having second thoughts about what was considered a miracle economy. Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos in January, Trump made a simple pitch that if companies…

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Musk Says Trump Has Asked SpaceX To Bring “Stranded” Sunita Williams Home

January 29, 2025 admin

Washington DC: Billionaire Elon Musk on Tuesday (local time) said that US President Donald Trump had asked him to facilitate the return of the two Boeing Starliner astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, who have been on the space station since June 2024, as soon as possible. The SpaceX CEO claimed that it was “terrible”…

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Trump offers all federal workers a buyout with seven months’ pay in effort to shrink size of government

January 29, 2025 admin

The Trump administration announced Tuesday (January 28, 2025) that it is offering buyouts to all federal employees who opt to leave their jobs by next week — an unprecedented move to shrink the U.S. government at breakneck speed. A memo from the Office of Personnel Management, the government’s human resources agency, also said it would…

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