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Washington: Elon Musk, who has moved swiftly to shrink the size of the U.S. government at President Donald Trump’s behest, is now considered a “special government employee,” the White House said on Monday. The designation allows Musk, the world’s richest man, to work for the federal government but potentially avoid disclosure rules about conflicts of…
Colombian Foreign Relations Minister Luis Gilberto Murillo (C) looks on next to Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Jorge Rojas (L), Director of DAPRE Laura Sarabia (2nd-L), Ambassador of Colombia to the United States German Garcia-Pena (2nd-R), and Minister of Commerce, Industry, and Tourism Luis Carlos Reyes during a press conference on the diplomatic dispute with the…
US President Joe Biden issued pre-emptive pardons on Monday for people Republican successor Donald Trump has targeted for retaliation, including former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley and former White House chief medical advisor Anthony Fauci. The pardon also covers all lawmakers who served on the congressional select committee that investigated the…
With the U.S. government’s TikTok ban set to kick in on Sunday, Americans have been flocking to an alternative social media platform, but it’s another Chinese app, and experts say it could present the same, if not even more issues. There’s been a surge in U.S. downloads of the Chinese-owned application Xiaohongshu, or “RedNote” as many…
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Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has died at the age of 100, almost two years after announcing he would spend his final days in hospice care. His son Chip Carter, 74, confirmed the former president had died in his Georgia home on Sunday around 3.40 pm ET. The Democrat former peanut farmer, who served one…
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter holds up his Nobel Peace Prize Dec. 10, 2002, in Oslo, Norway. During his acceptance speech, Carter urged others to work for peace. Arne Knudsen | Getty Images News | Getty Images Jimmy Carter, the Georgia peanut farmer who became a U.S. president and a Nobel Prize-winning activist for peace…
WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives approved a bipartisan federal spending bill Friday and sent it to the Senate, just hours before a midnight deadline to fund the government. It was unclear Friday whether the Senate could pass the bill before 12:00 a.m. ET, when funding technically lapses. The bill continues funding the federal government…
Howard Lutnick, chairman and CEO of BGC Partners Inc., speaks during the Piper Sandler Global Exchange and FinTech Conference in New York City, U.S., June 8, 2022. Brendan McDermid | Reuters WASHINGTON — The Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday charged global financial services firm Cantor Fitzgerald with violating laws related to regulatory disclosures by…
ON BOARD AIR FORCE ONE/WASHINGTON: The White House on Monday defended President Joe Biden’s decision to pardon his son, Hunter, and said the president believed his political opponents would have kept persecuting his son going forward. “They would continue to go after his son,” White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters on Air Force One…
