Gambiaj.com – (WASHINGTON DC, United States) – TikTok blocked access to American users late Saturday night, just hours before a law banning the popular video-sharing platform was set to go into effect.
Gambiaj.com – (WASHINGTON, United States) – The Justice Department can publicly release its investigative report on President-elect Donald Trump’s 2020 election interference case, a federal judge said Monday — the latest ruling in a court dispute over the highly anticipated document days before Trump is set to take office again.
Gambiaj.com – (NEW YORK, United States) – In nine days, Donald Trump will become the first convicted felon to take the oath and serve as President of the United States. Judge Juan Merchan’s sentencing of Trump to an “unconditional discharge” places a judgment of guilt on his record just days before he officially reclaims the White House on Jan. 20.
Gambiaj.com – (PARIS, France) – Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of the far-right National Front, died on Tuesday at the age of 96. Le Pen was often embroiled in legal battles over his racist, anti-Semitic, and homophobic remarks and was eventually expelled from the party he founded, which has since moved from the fringes to the mainstream of French political life.
ATLANTA (AP) — Jimmy Carter, the peanut farmer who won the presidency in the wake of the Watergate scandal and Vietnam War, endured humbling defeat after one tumultuous term and then redefined life after the White House as a global humanitarian, has died. He was 100 years old.
Gambiaj.com – (TEXAS, United States) – Amid the emotionally charged debates surrounding immigration policies, a groundbreaking study by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) has brought data to the forefront. The study reveals that undocumented immigrants contributed $96.7 billion in federal, state, and local taxes in 2022, challenging the perception that they are a financial burden on public resources.
Gambiaj.com – (PARIS) – France’s highest appeals court on Wednesday confirmed a verdict against former president Nicolas Sarkozy for corruption and influence peddling, ordering him to wear an electronic tag for a year, a first for a former head of state.
Gambiaj.com – (KINSHASA) – The Democratic Republic of Congo has filed a criminal case against European subsidiaries of tech giant Apple, accusing the company of illicitly using “blood minerals” in its supply chain.
Gambiaj.com – (LUANDA, Angola) – The presidents of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo were to meet this Sunday in Angola for a fresh round of talks aimed at ending the conflict in the DRC’s troubled east. But the talks almost immediately hit a ‘deadlock’, according to the representative of the DRC.
Gambiaj.com – (NEW YORK, United States) – Manhattan Judge Juan M. Merchan on Monday denied a motion to overturn President-elect Donald Trump’s conviction in the hush money case, despite arguments invoking a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity. The decision marks a pivotal moment in the historic case against the first former president to be convicted of a felony.
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