The prosecution of the former president was a historic and controversial move. As a lawyer, you should not take any chances. But it gets a little easier when that former president is Donald Trump. Because he keeps confessing while chatting with friends and guests and even on TV talk shows. The American media has recently been coming up with new …
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Biden signed debt ceiling bill into law
US President Biden on Saturday signed bipartisan legislation to suspend the $31.4 trillion debt ceiling. This prevented the US from repaying the debt, which plunged the economy into recession and triggered the financial crisis. The president signed the legislation Saturday afternoon, two days before the government is expected to run out of money, according to estimates from the U.S. Treasury …
Read More »The activists were arrested by the Hong Kong police
International•Jun 4 ’23 at 10:05Author of the book: Mark VanHarveldt Hong Kong police have arrested eight people, including activists and artists, ahead of the 34th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing. Police said they were involved in acts of arson and disturbing public peace. Tiananmen activists Kwan Chun-bang (L) and Lau Ka-yee (R) hold papers with the word …
Read More »Biden: Debt deal protects US economic progress
(ABM FN-Dow Jones) A bilateral agreement that suspended the US debt ceiling of $31.4 trillion saved the US from an unprecedented default and safeguarded the nation’s economic growth. President Joe Biden made the announcement in a televised address from the Oval Office on Friday evening. “Nobody got everything they wanted, but the American people got what they needed,” Biden said. …
Read More »Wiersma apologizes for his behavior at the VVD congress
During the well-attended VVD conference, Education Minister Dennis Wiersma also apologized to VVD members for his outrageous behavior. “I made a mistake, I was very harsh. It was not good, and I am very sorry for that. I also want to apologize here,” he said. “I’ve learned my lesson and this won’t happen again,” Wiersma promised. This was followed by …
Read More »Biden in first speech from Oval Office: ‘Avoiding economic collapse’ | Abroad
UpdateUS President Joe Biden announced on Friday evening that he will sign a bill to raise the US debt ceiling on Saturday. He said so at 7pm local time (1am Saturday morning Dutch time) in his first speech from the Oval Office in the White House since taking office two years ago. Majorities in the US House of Representatives and …
Read More »What a “bull” from Russia – Dogplot Suriname
Gregory Russia, leader of the National Party of Suriname (NPS) and member of parliament, is against giving land to foreign powers. It is a pity that he does not go beyond to give the full facts, even though he knows the history. The National Party has often chaired the Foreign Ministry, for ten years, and several times in the distant …
Read More »JP Morgan’s Dimon visits Taiwan to meet with staff and clients – source
Jamie Dimon, chief executive of US bank JPMorgan Chase & Co, will visit Taiwan on Friday, a source with direct knowledge said. He completed a trip to China this week, his first visit to the island in nearly a decade. Dimon’s visit to Taipei, which has housed JPMorgan Bank since 1970, comes amid heightened tensions over the democratically-ruled island, which …
Read More »US to stop providing nuclear weapons data to Russia under New START program
The US said it would stop providing Russia with certain notifications required under the New START arms control treaty from Thursday, including the locations of its missiles and missiles, in response to “ongoing violations” of the treaty by Moscow. In a fact sheet on its website, the State Department says it will stop providing telemetry data — remotely collected missile …
Read More »Russia says US accessed thousands of Apple phones in spying program
Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Thursday it had uncovered a plot by the US National Security Agency (NSA) to use previously unknown malware to gain access to so-called specially designed backdoors in Apple phones. The FSB, the main successor to the Soviet-era KGB, said several thousand Apple phones were affected, including domestic Russian subscribers. Neither Apple nor the …
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