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TikTok Restores Service in US, Thanking Trump

This is Beirut, 20/01 09:50 - Reading : 5 minute(s)

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TikTok restored service in the United States Sunday after briefly going dark, as a law banning the wildly popular app on national security grounds came into effect. The video-sharing platform credited President-elect Donald Trump, who retakes power on Monday, for making the reversal possible – though the outgoing administration of President ...

Inauguration Day, Trump-Style: What Will Happen?

This is Beirut, 20/01 09:40 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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Every four years America's president is sworn in on Inauguration Day, whether newly elected or returning to office, in a long-established ceremony held amid pageantry shaped by the incoming leader's personal flourishes. What does that mean for the inauguration of Donald Trump? Cue the Village People and social media titans – and leave the ...

US President-Elect Trump to be Sentenced for Hush Money Conviction

This is Beirut, 10/01 10:10 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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Donald Trump will be sentenced Friday for covering up hush money payments to a porn star despite the US President-elect's last-ditch efforts to frustrate a process that would make him the first felon in the White House. The judge has indicated, however, that Trump will not face prison – even though the 34 counts of falsifying business records ...

Trump Asks US Supreme Court to Pause Law Threatening TikTok Ban

This is Beirut, 2024-12-28 10:25 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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US President-elect Donald Trump filed a brief Friday urging the Supreme Court to pause a law that would ban TikTok the day before his January 20 inauguration if it is not sold by its Chinese owner ByteDance. "In light of the novelty and difficulty of this case, the court should consider staying the statutory deadline to grant more breathing ...

US Court Delays Indefinitely Trump Sentence in Criminal Case

This is Beirut, 2024-11-23 05:15 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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The judge in Donald Trump's criminal hush money case on Friday delayed his sentencing indefinitely, in what the president-elect's team called a "decisive win" as he prepares to return to the White House. Trump, who was to have been sentenced on November 26, fought to block that proceeding before he succeeds Joe Biden in ...

Prosecutors Open to New Trump Sentencing Delay

This is Beirut, 2024-11-20 09:55 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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Prosecutors who secured a historic criminal conviction of Donald Trump signaled Tuesday they would accept a new delay for sentencing, as the judge deliberated how best to proceed against the US president-elect. Trump was convicted of 34 felony counts in May after a jury found he had fraudulently manipulated business records to cover up an alleged ...

US Seeks for Google to Sell Chrome Browser

This is Beirut, 2024-11-19 09:50 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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The US will urge a judge to make Google-parent company Alphabet sell its widely used Chrome browser in a major antitrust crackdown on the internet giant, according to a media report Monday. Antitrust officials with the US Department of Justice declined to comment on a Bloomberg report that they will ask for a sell-off of Chrome and a shake-up of ...

Trump's White House Return Puts Legal Battles on Hold

This is Beirut, 2024-11-06 13:10 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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Donald Trump's election victory not only catapults him back to the White House but grants him a reprieve from looming court battles and soaring legal bills. As president, the 78-year-old Trump can make the federal criminal cases facing him vanish and see the state cases put on hold until he leaves the Oval Office four years from now. Trump ...

Iran Executes German-Iranian Jamshid Sharmahd

This is Beirut, 2024-10-28 19:45 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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Iranian authorities on Monday executed German-Iranian Jamshid Sharmahd, who had been detained since 2020, the judiciary's Mizan website said. "After going through the judicial process and the final approval of the court decision by the Supreme Court, the death sentence of Jamshid Sharmahd... was carried out this morning," the website said, ...

Netanyahu and Gallant: A Fragile Alliance Amidst Discord

Ali A. Hamadé, 2024-09-29 17:25 - Reading : 6 minute(s)

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On Friday, September 27, Israel launched its most extensive military operation against Hezbollah since the opening of the southern front line on October 8, 2023, decapitating the group. The strike resulted in the death of Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah and the elimination of several key commanders of the pro-Iranian ...

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