President Donald Trump on Monday encouraged France to use “flying water tankers” to put out a raging fire at the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris as firefighters rushed to save one of the country’s most visited landmarks and local officials called for those nearby to evacuate the scene. Read: Paris’ Notre Dame Cathedral is on […] Read more
President Donald Trump on Friday insisted that his administration is still actively considering a plan to release detained immigrants into so-called “sanctuary cities,” a strategy which was rejected twice in the past year by the Department of Homeland Security. The announcement, which came via Twitter, and which the president later doubled-down on, followed an initial […] Read more
Celebrity lawyer Michael Avenatti was slammed Thursday with a 36-count indictment by a federal grand jury in Los Angeles that accuses him of ripping off clients — including a mentally ill paraplegic — tax crimes, wire fraud, bank fraud, and perjury. The indictment, scheduled to be discussed at a press conference in Los Angeles at […] Read more
India heads to the polls starting this week to elect members for the lower house of its Parliament. The outcome, to be announced in May, will determine if Narendra Modi can secure a second term as prime minister. One of the major political opposition groups to Modi’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party has placed its election […] Read more
Facebook has said it has made strides in its efforts to prevent online abuses in the Indian national election that starts this week but acknowledged that gaps remain in its “election integrity” efforts. During a media tour of the company’s election operations centre at its Menlo Park headquarters in California on Friday, company officials touted […] Read more
Ahead of the weekend’s crucial elections, Turkey’s central bank used its reserves to prop up the lira, renewing questions on its independence, said Moody’s Ratings Agency which rated the country “credit negative” on Monday. Last week, Turkey’s central bank published data showing that its gold and foreign exchange reserves dropped more than $2 billion for […] Read more
Facebook implemented restrictions on its political advertising rules in the European Union Friday, in an effort to prevent abuse and interference in the run up to EU Parliament elections in May. The company said in a blog post that it would expand on measures it put in place last year in countries including the U.K., […] Read more
The Turkish lira dropped by as much as 5 percent against the dollar on Thursday morning, as the country gears up for elections this weekend. The greenback bought 5.569 lira at around 8:45 a.m. London time on Thursday morning, from a level of around 5.33 lira at the close of trade Wednesday. Reuters data showed […] Read more
President Donald Trump added a new notch to his belt of shock foreign policy moves Monday night, signing a proclamation officially recognizing Israel’s annexation of the Golan Heights, which it captured from Syria in 1967 and has occupied ever since. Trump initially announced the policy about-face last week via Twitter, writing: “After 52 years it […] Read more
Several top Democratic donors have told former Vice President Joe Biden that they won’t help him raise funds in the early stages of the party’s 2020 presidential primary, CNBC has learned. Their reason: skepticism that Biden actually can win the Democratic primary. Biden, who has yet to announce whether he will run, has reached out […] Read more
