US President-elect, Donald Trump on Friday night, January 17, announced his inauguration will be held inside the Capitol rotunda due to the extreme cold temperatures forecast for Washington, D.C., on Monday, Jan. 20. The area has had consistent freezing conditions throughout the month of January and there is still snow on the ground from the storm on Jan. 6, which …
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US President-elect Donald Trump announced that he will soon make a decision regarding the operations of the TikTok platform after the Supreme Court upheld a law requiring TikTok to be banned unless its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, sells it to an American firm, according to his post on Truth Social . On Friday, January 17, the US Supreme Court …
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The quarter-final between Ding and Trump was a match of high quality in terms of scoring, with seven of the nine frames containing a break of 70 or above. Ding, the 2011 Masters champion, began in style with well-made contributions of 70 and 74 to take a 2-0 lead. Left-hander Trump responded with a 75 to reduce the deficit but, …
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Scott Bessent will appear before politicians on Capitol Hill to answer questions over his stance on taxes, tariffs, trade and other issues during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Finance Committee. ADVERTISEMENT US Treasury nominee Scott Bessent plans to say that the US must secure vulnerable supply chains, levy sanctions to address national security concerns “and critically, we must ensure …
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Trump was clinical in his win over Hawkins, who scored only 59 points in the first five frames – the 45-year-old’s cause not helped by knocking in a red when attempting to disturb the pack while potting the blue in the opening frame. It was a foul that Hawkins repeated in frame four, by which time Trump was in full …
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Jack Smith, the special counsel who led prosecution against United States President-elect Donald Trump, has resigned and fled the country ahead of Trump’s inauguration on January 20. According to statements of officials in the document submitted to the US District Judge Aileen Cannon, Smith had completed his work and submitted his final confidential report on January 7 this year before …
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A former lawyer of United States President-elect Donald Trump has pleaded with outgoing President Joe Biden to grant him a pardon just like he did for his son Hunter fearing the incoming president might jail him. Cohen is claiming that Trump will punish him for testifying against the politician in his hush money conviction. Cohen was also the star …
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A Manhattan judge sentenced Donald Trump to no penalty on Friday, January 10 on his conviction for concealing a “hush money” payoff that hid a sex scandal from voters making the president-elect the first person convicted of a felony to assume the White House. Justice Juan Merchan who oversaw a trial in which jurors heard evidence that Trump paid …
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All five living US Presidents reunited as they attended the funeral for Jimmy Carter. Joe Biden, Donald Trump, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush all gathered on Thursday, Jan. 9, at the funeral of former President Jimmy Carter in Washington. Obama arrived without his wife Michelle and he went over to greet the former US Presidents and …
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Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum criticized Donald Trump’s comments about renaming the Gulf of Mexico, suggesting instead that the United States be called “Mexican America.” Her remarks came in response to Trump’s vow to rename the Gulf of Mexico the “Gulf of America.” During her morning press conference, Sheinbaum presented a 17th-century world map labelling North America as “Mexican …
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