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Spain PM proposes 100% tax on homes bought by foreigners
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Monday proposed a range of measures to combat a housing crisis in the country, including a 100%…
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Full list of senators who voted against advancing Laken Riley Act
Nine Democratic senators and one independent voted against considering the Laken Riley Act during its second procedural vote in the…
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Risk of TikTok ban has users rushing to download two other Chinese-made apps
A PAIR of Chinese-made social apps, Xiaohongshu and Lemon8, have taken over the top two positions on Apple’s iPhone download charts in the…
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Pete Hegseth Senate confirmation hearing: How to watch, what to know
Pete Hegseth will take center stage on Tuesday as he testifies before the Senate as President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for secretary…
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Gold gains on uncertainty over Trump policies; US data awaited
GOLD prices gained on Tuesday (Jan 14), amid uncertainty around the incoming Trump administration’s policies and fresh positioning ahead…
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GOP’s Sick New Talking Point Doesn’t Bode Well for Future Disasters
Republicans seem to be trying their hardest to make placing conditions on relief to victims of devastating natural disasters seem like a…
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Oil prices climb 2% to four-month high with sanctions expected to disrupt Russian supplies
OIL prices climbed about 2 per cent to a four-month high on Monday (Jan 13) on expectations that wider US sanctions on Russian oil would…
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JD Vance Downplays Trump’s Cruelest Immigration Policy Coming Back
“We are announcing today that VILLAGE PEOPLE have accepted an invitation from President Elect Trump’s campaign to participate in inaugural…
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DeSantis Plans to Rush Through Trump’s Worst Immigration Policies
“We are announcing today that VILLAGE PEOPLE have accepted an invitation from President Elect Trump’s campaign to participate in inaugural…
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Trump Gets Insane Show of Support From Washington Post Editorial Board
“We are announcing today that VILLAGE PEOPLE have accepted an invitation from President Elect Trump’s campaign to participate in inaugural…
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Peter Thiel’s Twisted Vision for the Trump Presidency
In more concrete terms, Thiel finds the ordinary agonism of American politics both dangerous and duplicitous. In a 2019 interview, he…
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Biden’s Push to Cancel Student Debt Surpasses 5 Million Borrowers
The Education Department announced on Monday that it had canceled student loans for more than 150,000 borrowers, bringing the tally of…
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Trump Lavishes Praise on John Fetterman After He Bends the Knee
“We are announcing today that VILLAGE PEOPLE have accepted an invitation from President Elect Trump’s campaign to participate in inaugural…
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Here Are All the Tech Bros Helping Elon Musk Gut the Government
A small cohort of unelected Silicon Valley investors have been quietly helping Donald Trump and Elon Musk interview personnel for the…
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Trump’s Inauguration Will Feature a Shocking Lineup of Musical Guests
“We are announcing today that VILLAGE PEOPLE have accepted an invitation from President Elect Trump’s campaign to participate in inaugural…
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China’s vehicle export growth set to slow in 2025: CAAM data
China's vehicle export growth is expected to temper to 5.8%, reaching 6.2 million units this year, a significant deceleration from the…
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Russian economy time bomb: Putin warns of "seismically disruptive" war debt
Russia is financing its military spending through a shadow plan that poses a "seismically disruptive" threat to an economy already…
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Guess Who Zuckerberg Warned About Meta’s Rule Changes? Not His Board.
It is currently unclear what formal role, if any, Bannon will hold in Trump’s new administration. But despite his fall from grace, Bannon…
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Oil Tycoon Harold Hamm Throwing an Inauguration Day Party
Harold G. Hamm, the billionaire oil and gas executive who helped bankroll Donald J. Trump’s campaign and stands to profit from his energy…
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News Outlets Batten Down the Hatches for Trump’s Return
Reporters and editors at national newspapers are increasing their reliance on encrypted communications to help shield themselves and their…
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Taliban do not see women as human beings, Malala Yousafzai says
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai decried the state of women’s rights in Afghanistan as “gender apartheid” on Sunday and urged…
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Supreme Court denies oil industry plea to block climate lawsuits filed by California, other blue states
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court dealt a major setback to the oil industry on Monday, refusing to block lawsuits from California and other…
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Talk Turns to Los Angeles ‘2.0’
What next for Los Angeles? Angelenos can’t catch a break. Dangerous winds are expected to bear down on Southern California, putting homes…
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EU's executive branch denies cover up over the health of its president, Ursula von der Leyen
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Commission denied on Monday that it had tried to cover up the state of health of its president, Ursula von…