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Mary Trump said she was tickled by one part in particular of her uncle’s ongoing hush money trial. And that was when the former president and presumptive OGP nominee was forced — during jury selection last week — to sit and listen to derogatory comments that potential jurors had made about him on social media. […]

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia now has grounds to confiscate Western assets after the U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation that would allow the potential transfer of seized Russian assets to Ukraine, a top Russian lawmaker said on Monday. “Washington has passed a law on the confiscation of Russian assets in order to provoke the EU […]

Mathias Labah normally catches fish in the Baltic Sea but today, the rope he is pulling out of the water a few kilometres off Germany’s north coast is not a net filled with herring or cod, but a plastic cylinder about 30 centimetres long. Labah carefully hoists the device onto the deck of the Solea […]

Donald Trump likes to think of himself as a great businessman, but at least one official who served under him says that’s not the case at all. “Donald Trump is not a great businessman,” former Homeland Security chief of staff Miles Taylor told MeidasTouch. “He is a failed businessman across the board. Trump Steaks and […]

In the heart of Rome, for nearly a quarter of a century, the Pisano sisters held steadfast to their morning ritual, rain or shine, unfailingly opening their newspaper kiosk, or edicola in Italian. Except in August when Italy practically shuts down for vacation, and on sacred Sundays, a day of rest, Alessandra and Patrizia Pisano […]

QINGDAO, China (AP) — One of China’s top military leaders took a harsh line on regional territorial disputes, telling an international naval gathering in northeastern China on Monday that the country would strike back with force if its interests came under threat. The 19th biennial meeting of the Western Pacific Naval Symposium opened in Qingdao, […]

Anthony Albanese says decision to challenge takedown order for content related to church stabbing ‘extraordinary’. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has criticised social media platform X for its “extraordinary” decision to fight an order by the country’s internet watchdog to remove footage of a stabbing during a livestreamed church service. X, owned by tech entrepreneur […]

Rishi Sunak insists his policy to process asylum seekers in Rwanda will become law, even if it means MPs sitting late into the night to pass it. There has been a prolonged stand-off over the bill between the two Houses of Parliament over the past four months. The Lords have consistently blocked and amended the […]

Authorities have evacuated nearly 60,000 people from their homes in Guangdong, as days of heavy rain caused massive flooding in China’s most populous province. Eleven people have gone missing, while no casualties have been reported so far. Footage on state media and online show large swathes of land inundated by the floods and rescuers ferrying […]

TechCrunch TikTok Shop expands its secondhand luxury fashion offering to the UK TikTok Shop, TikTok’s social commerce marketplace, is launching a secondhand luxury category in the U.K., putting it in closer competition with The RealReal, Vestiaire Collective, Depop, Poshmark, and Mercari, among others. The offering has already existed in TikTok Shop U.S. for over six […]

TAPACHULA, Mexico (AP) — Masked men stopped a vehicle carrying Mexico’s leading presidential candidate while she was traveling between campaign stops Sunday to ask that she address the violence in the southern state of Chiapas if she wins the June 2 election. Former Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum, the governing Morena party’s candidate, remained in […]