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WASHINGTON, March 6, 2024 (AFP) – Amazon founder Jeff Bezos took back his spot as the world’s richest man on Monday, dethroning Elon Musk on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Bezos’ net worth stands at $200 billion, according to the tracker, surpassing the Tesla chief’s $198 billion. Musk, who also heads X (formerly Twitter) and SpaceX, has seen his riches fall by more than $30 billion as Tesla’s share price has dropped 25 percent in recent […]
By Frankie Taggart with Romain Fonsegrives in Huntington Beach, California and Moises Avila in Houston, Texas WASHINGTON, March 6, 2024 (AFP) – Polls began closing Tuesday on the biggest day of the year for US presidential primaries, with Donald Trump expected to cement his hold on the Republican nomination and set up a rematch with President Joe Biden in November. “Super Tuesday” decides Republican and Democratic primaries in the giant states of California and Texas, […]
WASHINGTON, March 5, 2024 (AFP) – Meta suffered a highly unusual outage of all its social media platforms on Tuesday with users of Facebook, Instagram and Threads locked out of their accounts. At about 12:00 US east coast time (1700 GMT), the sites seemed to be returning to normal, about two hours after the outage reports first emerged. “Earlier today, a technical issue caused people to have difficulty accessing some of our services,” Meta spokesman […]
BOSTON, March 5, 2024 (AFP) – The US airman accused of leaking a trove of top secret Pentagon documents pleaded guilty Monday under a deal that saw him sentenced to some 17 years in prison in return for prosecutors dropping more serious espionage charges. Jack Teixeira, once a low-level Massachusetts Air National Guard IT specialist, was accused of orchestrating the most damaging leak of US classified documents in a decade, some of which concerned […]
By Danny KEMP Agence France-Presse (AFP) — US Vice President Kamala Harris meets Monday with a key member of Israel’s war cabinet and rival of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a day after she delivered Washington’s sharpest rebuke yet over the Israeli offensive in Gaza. Benny Gantz, Israel’s former military chief, will also hold talks with National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan and Secretary of State Antony Blinken, underscoring signs of discord in the government of Netanyahu […]
By Chris Lefkow Agence France-Presse (AFP) — The US Supreme Court on Monday removed a potential hurdle to Donald Trump’s bid to recapture the White House, unanimously dismissing a state court ruling that could have barred him from the ballot for engaging in insurrection. The high-stakes ruling in favor of the former president came on the eve of the Super Tuesday primaries that are expected to cement Trump’s march toward the Republican nomination to take […]
EAGLE PASS, United States (AFP) – Joe Biden and Donald Trump traded blame for America’s immigration crisis as they made dueling visits to the US-Mexican border Thursday, putting the hot-button issue at the heart of their race for the White House in November. In near-simultaneous speeches in Texas, Republican former president Trump called the record numbers of border crossings a “Joe Biden invasion” — while the Democratic incumbent urged his rival to stop “playing politics” […]
By Glenn CHAPMAN with Joseph BOYLE in Paris SAN FRANCISCO, March 1, 2024 (AFP) – Elon Musk has launched a legal case against OpenAI, the AI firm he helped to set up in 2015, accusing its leaders of a “betrayal” of its founding mission. The tycoon, who left OpenAI in 2018, argued in documents filed in a San Francisco court late Thursday that the firm was always intended as a nonprofit entity. But he said […]
LOS ANGELES, March 1, 2024 (AFP) – A manhunt was launched by police in the California city of El Cajon on Thursday after a shooting at a dentist’s office left one dead and two injured, local media reported. Police in the town, about 20 miles (30 kilometers) outside of San Diego, said on social media they were searching for an “armed and dangerous” 29-year-old suspect who fled the scene after the attack, which they described […]
HOUSTON, March 1, 2024 (AFP) – Texas emergency crews were struggling Thursday to contain the largest wildfire in the US state’s history, with the blaze leaving at least one person dead and scorching a million acres as it raged out of control. The Texas A&M Forest Service said six major fires, fueled by winter heat and ferocious winds, were actively burning, five of them across the state’s northern area known as the Texas panhandle. The […]
By Angela M. Patricio Eagle News Service TORONTO (Eagle News ) —An estimated 3,000 employees of York University, one of the largest universities in Ontario, are currently on strike, after a failure to reach a deal between the university and the union representing its faculty members, graduate assistants and part-time librarians. “Basic needs like housing and food have skyrocketed in price, but the wages for people who do the majority of teaching at York have […]
By Camille CAMDESSUS WASHINGTON, Feb 28, 2024 (AFP) – Mitch McConnell, the powerful US political tactician who has advanced conservative causes for years and been a strong defender of aid to Ukraine, announced abruptly Wednesday that he would leave his post as leader of the Republicans in the Senate later this year. His speech to the chamber came as a surprise and prompted lawmakers from both parties to give him a standing ovation, though he […]
