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President-elect Donald Trump is seeking intervention from the Supreme Court to block the sentencing in his hush money case in New York, which is scheduled for Friday at 9:30 a.m. Earlier this week, New York Judge Juan Merchan declined to block Trump’s sentencing, despite repeated appeals from his attorneys. In a request for emergency relief […]

President Joe Biden has signed a proclamation naming two new national monuments in California, protecting 848,000 acres of land that are of ‘scientific, cultural, ecological, and historical importance.’ The White House said in a statement:  “With today’s designations and yesterday’s actions to protect the East and West coasts and Northern Bering Sea from offshore oil […]

Meta has announced it is ending its fact-checking program in favor of a ‘community notes’ system, similar to X’s Community Notes. The social media company (which owns Facebook, Instagram, Threads and WhatsApp) said in a statement: “we’re replacing fact-checkers with Community Notes, simplifying our policies and focusing on reducing mistakes.” Meta founder and CEO Mark […]

Nippon Steel and U.S. Steel said on Monday that it they are suing the Biden administration over the decision to block its sales agreement, alleging that the White House used the government review process as a pretext to reject the merger as a favor to the United Steelworkers (USW) labor union. On Friday, Biden announced […]