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DC appeal court orders IRS release Trump’s tax returns to House committee
The DC Circuit Court of Appeals has ordered the Internal Revenue Service to release to a House committee, the tax returns of former President Donald Trump. The court ruled 3-0 on the committee request.…
Biden Approves Finland, Sweden Joining NATO
President Joe Biden formally welcomed Finland and Sweden joining the NATO alliance Tuesday as he signed the instruments of ratification that delivered the U.S.’s formal backing of the…
Russia More Than Triples Current-Account Surplus To $167 Billion
Russia’s current-account surplus more than tripled from last year after notching record levels since the invasion of Ukraine, as declines in imports combined with booming revenues from energy and…
$1.5M paid to black prison officers barred from Floyd’s killer Chauvin
A Minnesota board of county commissioners on Tuesday approved a nearly $1.5 million settlement for black correctional officers who were told they were not to have contact with former Minneapolis Police…
Real reason FBI raided Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home
Donald Trump’s son Eric Trump said that the FBI raid on Monday of his father’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida was conducted over documents sought by the National Archives. Eric Trump revealed…
FBI raids Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in Florida
FBI agents executing a warrant have searched former President Donald Trump’s home in Mar-a-Lago, Palm Beach Florida. The raid was confirmed by Trump in a statement. “My beautiful home Mar A Lago in Palm Beach, Florida is currently under…
China announces fresh military drills around Taiwan
China’s military announced fresh military drills on Monday in the seas and airspace around Taiwan – a day after the scheduled end of its largest ever exercises to protest against last week’s visit to…
Hong Kong eases COVID quarantine rules for arrivals
Hong Kong will shorten the COVID-19 hotel quarantine period for all arrivals to three days from seven, taking another step to gradually unwind stringent pandemic rules that have isolated the Asian…
Biden exits isolation after second negative COVID test
U.S. President Joe Biden tested negative for COVID-19 for a second consecutive day on Sunday and ended his isolation at the White House with a trip to his vacation home in Delaware and a…
China’s Taiwan Attack ‘Rehearsal’ Irresponsible – US
The United States has accused Beijing of “provocative” and “irresponsible” actions after Taiwan said China rehearsed an attack on the island. Taiwan said it responded to the Chinese drills, now in their…
US conspiracy theorist Alex Jones ordered to pay $45.2 million for spreading fake
A Texas jury ordered US conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on Friday to pay $45.2 million in punitive damages for falsely claiming that the deadly 2012 Sandy Hook elementary shooting was a “hoax.” The…
Turkey frees man wanted by Haiti after Moise’s assassination
A man wanted by Haiti over his alleged involvement in the assassination of President Jovenel Moise has been freed from a Turkish repatriation centre and returned to the United States, one of his…
Flash floods kill 550 in Pakistan
Flash floods caused by abnormally heavy monsoon rains killed at least 549 people in Pakistan over the past month, with remote communities in the impoverished southwestern province of Balochistan among…
U.S. economy defies predictions, creates record new jobs
The U.S. economy added 528,000 new jobs in July, far more than the 250,000 expected, data released Friday by the Labour Department showed. The data also showed unemployment rate falling to 3.5…
China halts cooperation with U.S. on climate change, military matters
China has halted cooperation with the United States in a number of areas, including dialogue between senior-level military commanders and climate talks, in retaliation for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan.…
Lightning strikes two people dead near White House
Two people were killed and two more were in critical condition on Friday after a lightning strike near the White House the night before, police in the US capital said. The lightning hit Lafayette…
Turkey: Three more grain ships leave Ukraine
Three more ships loaded with grain sailed from Ukraine on Friday under a UN-backed deal lifting Russia’s blockade of the Black Sea, Turkey’s defence ministry said. The Panama-flagged Navistar left Odessa for…
How Trump Made Me Part Ways With Kanye West – John Legend
Popular American musician, John Legend, has opened up about the strains in his relationship with Rapper Kanye West and why it ended. In an interview with CNN’s David Axelrod on ‘The Axe Files’ podcast,…
Malaysian citizenship ruling on babies born abroad overturned
Malaysia’s Court of Appeal on Friday overturned a landmark ruling that had enabled mothers with foreign spouses to automatically pass on their nationality to children born overseas. A Malaysian woman…
China Sanctions Nancy Pelosi Over Taiwan Visit
China’s foreign ministry announced sanctions against US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday following her visit to Taiwan this week which prompted outrage from Beijing. The ministry said Ms Pelosi was “seriously interfering in China’s…
Queen Elizabeth suffers another heartbreaking loss
British Queen Elizabeth is mourning again, this time the loss of her childhood friend Lady Myra Butter, who died 29 July. She was 97. Since she mounted the throne for a historic 70 years, the Queen had…
Panic as raging Monkeypox forces US to declare state of emergency
The United States Government on Thursday declared a state of emergency over Monkeypox raging in the country. Monkeypox is an illness caused by the monkeypox virus. It is a viral zoonotic infection,…
My Papacy in new phase, says Pope Francis
Pope Francis said his advancing age and his difficulty walking have ushered in a new, slower phase of his papacy and repeated that he would be ready to resign one day if serious health problems…
Bank of England raises interest rates to 1.75%, predicts recession by year-end
The Bank of England, on Thursday, raised its interest rates from 1.25…