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THE HAGUE – U.N. judges on Friday will rule on South Africa’s request for emergency measures against Israel, which is accused at the World Court of state-led genocide for its military operation in Gaza. Friday’s ruling at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) will not deal with the core accusation of the case – whether […]

SAN FRANCISCO – Meta on Jan 25 began blocking messages from strangers sent directly to young teens using Instagram or Messenger. By default, teens younger than 16 years old can now only be messaged or added to group chats by people they already follow or are connected to, according to the post. Changing the setting […]

TechCrunch Cruise reveals DOJ, SEC probes as it releases internal report on pedestrian crash Cruise, the GM self-driving subsidiary, said Thursday that federal prosecutors and securities regulators have opened investigations into the October 2 incident that left a pedestrian stuck under and then dragged by one of its robotaxis. The probes by the Department of […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — A bipartisan Senate deal to pair border enforcement measures and Ukraine aid faced potential collapse Thursday as Senate Republicans grew increasingly wary of an election-year compromise that Donald Trump, the likely Republican presidential nominee, says is “meaningless.” Senate negotiators have been striving for weeks to finish a carefully negotiated compromise on border […]

Washington has sought to put pressure on China to halt Iran’s logistical, military, and financial backing of the Houthis, who seized control of Yemen following a coup in 2014. Tehran is considered the armed group’s most important international supporter. News of the high-profile meeting came to light after The Financial Times disclosed on Wednesday that […]

NEW YORK – Donald Trump’s testimony in the writer E. Jean Carroll’s defamation case ended almost immediately after it began, with the former US president standing by his earlier testimony that Ms Carroll’s claim that he raped her was a hoax. “100 per cent yes,” Trump told his lawyer Alina Habba in federal court in […]

ACAPULCO, Mexico – A volunteer police force in rural Mexico that says it has been overwhelmed by local kidnappings has recruited schoolchildren as young as 12 to join its ranks, the latest sign of how some parts of the country are struggling to cope with organized crime. Armed with rifles and sticks, and with their […]

WASHINGTON — The House Ethics Committee is not pursuing an investigation of Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., for pulling a fire alarm in the Capitol complex in September, citing the House’s formal censure of him last month. Bowman has long maintained that he did not intend to set off the alarm and was simply trying to […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — A bipartisan Senate deal to pair border enforcement measures and Ukraine aid faced potential collapse Thursday as Senate Republicans grew increasingly wary of an election-year compromise that Donald Trump, the likely Republican presidential nominee, seems likely to oppose. Senate negotiators have been striving for weeks to finish a carefully negotiated compromise on […]

WASHINGTON – Former United States president Donald Trump’s trade adviser Peter Navarro was sentenced on Jan 25 to four months in prison for contempt of Congress, with a judge scolding him for defying a subpoena in an investigation into the Jan 6, 2021, US Capitol attack and telling him: “You are not a victim.” US […]

ATLANTA — Former President Donald Trump moved Thursday to adopt a motion to dismiss the election interference charges against him in Georgia, with his lawyer pointing to an alleged improper romantic relationship between Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and special prosecutor Nathan Wade. Trump’s lead defense counsel for the case requested a dismissal of […]

WASHINGTON — Former Trump White House adviser Peter Navarro was sentenced to four months in prison Thursday for criminal contempt of Congress, with a federal judge telling him he was “not a victim” or a target of political persecution, as much as he may have proclaimed otherwise. Navarro was convicted in September on two counts […]