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Aujourd’hui — 23 janvier 2025Flux principal

Russia faces ‘Taxes, Tariffs, and Sanctions’ if it doesn’t end war in Ukraine, Trump warns

23 janvier 2025 à 02:08
WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump threatened on Wednesday to impose stiff taxes, tariffs and sanctions on Russia if an agreement isn't reached to end the war in Ukraine, a warning that is likely fall on deaf ears in the Kremlin. The United States already prohibits the import of virtually all Russian products, and Russia has faced a multitude of U.S. and European sanctions since the invasion began almost three years ago. Read More

How Trump Decided to Pardon Silk Road Founder Ross Ulbricht

23 janvier 2025 à 02:06
Libertarian and crypto allies of Ross Ulbricht, who was serving a life sentence for distributing drugs on his Silk Road website, leveraged President Trump’s desire for political support to secure his release.

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Members of the Libertarian Party chanting and demanding the release of Ross Ulbricht, the founder of Silk Road, during the party’s national convention in May.

Trump Administration Cancels Flights for Refugees Already Approved for Travel

23 janvier 2025 à 01:21
The decision leaves refugees who have completed a lengthy process stranded abroad and facing extended separation from loved ones already in the U.S.

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Afghan refugees boarding planes in Kabul, Afghanistan, in August 2021. The Trump administration canceled travel for previously approved refugees.

The Bishop Who Pleaded With Trump: ‘Was Anyone Going to Say Anything?’

23 janvier 2025 à 01:13
Bishop Budde locked eyes with President Trump and made a plea for mercy — and the war over spiritual authority in America was ignited anew.

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Bishop Mariann E. Budde delivering a sermon at a prayer service on Tuesday at Washington National Cathedral.

Laken Riley Act passes US House, sending anti-immigrant bill to Trump

Forty-six Democrats joined Republicans to further bill requiring detention of undocumented immigrants for theft

The US House on Wednesday gave final approval to a bill requiring the detention of undocumented immigrants charged with theft-related crimes, sending the proposal to Donald Trump’s desk and giving the new president his first legislative victory as he presses his hardline immigration agenda on multiple fronts.

The House vote was 263 to 158, with 46 Democrats joining every present Republican in supporting the Laken Riley Act, named after a 22-year-old Georgia nursing student who was murdered last year by a Venezuelan national who was in the US unlawfully. The House vote came two days after the US Senate passed the legislation in a vote of 64 to 35, with a dozen Democratic members backing the bill.

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How Europe Is Preparing for a New Era of Trump

World leaders gathered in Davos, Switzerland for the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum. Jeanna Smialek, a New York Times reporter, describes how there was a veneer of anxiety over the event, with attendees wondering: How will the new Trump administration affect Europe?
Hier — 22 janvier 2025Flux principal

Moe, Legault inch closer to Smith on energy exports, pushing back on major Trump retaliation

22 janvier 2025 à 23:35
OTTAWA — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has two increasingly vocal allies among Canadian premiers in her push to ratchet down the response to President Donald Trump's threatened 25 per cent tariff on all Canadian goods. Read More

Tech titans bicker over $500bn AI investment announced by Trump

22 janvier 2025 à 23:32

After unveiling of Stargate, Elon Musk, Sam Altman and Satya Nadella of Tesla, OpenAI and Microsoft trade barbs

Major tech moguls had their claws out for each other on Wednesday, hissing at their rivals over enormous pledges to invest in AI that had been announced by Donald Trump the day before.

Trump announced Stargate, a $500bn project to be funded jointly by OpenAI, Oracle and Softbank, on Tuesday. During the announcement, the president was flanked by the leaders of those companies: Sam Altman, Larry Ellison and Masayoshi Son, respectively. Son is slated to be the chair of the project. All three are multibillionaires. Absent from the photo op was a representative from MGX, Abu Dhabi’s state AI fund, another principal investor.

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