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Close to half of Americans back a ban or sale of TikTok, survey found

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[ad_1] Nearly half of Americans are concerned enough about TikTok being a threat to national security that they support banning the social media service or forcing a sale to a non-Chinese company, according to the latest CNBC All-America Economic Survey. But the poll also found substantial differences of opinion on the issue based on politics, age and those who use the app versus those who don’t. The nationwide survey of 1,001 Americans(half of Americans) revealed that 20% of participants said TikTok should be banned no matter what. Another 27% said…

Ahmaud Arbery’s killers ask appeals court to overturn their hate crime convictions

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[ad_1] Attorneys are asking a U.S. appeals court to throw out the hate crime convictions of three White men who used pickup trucks to chase Ahmaud Arbery through the streets of a Georgia subdivision before one of them killed the running Black man with a shotgun. A panel of judges from the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta was scheduled to hear oral arguments Wednesday in a case that followed a national outcry over Ahmaud  Arbery’s death. The men’s lawyers argue that evidence of past racist comments they…

Federal Authorities aim to confiscate $14 million New York apartments allegedly linked to a corrupt scheme involving aTakes Action to Seize $14 Million New York Apartments Tied to Former Mongolian Leader in Alleged Mining Scandal

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Federal Authorities aim to confiscate $14 million New York apartments allegedly linked to a corrupt scheme involving a former Mongolian prime minister and his Harvard Business School graduate son. The lawsuit details millions siphoned from a state-owned mining company, implicating Prime Minister Sukhbaatar Batbold and his family. Defense claims echo previous allegations as a misinformation campaign. [ad_1] Batbold Sukhbaatar of Mongolia addresses the Millennium Development Goals Summit at the United Nations headquarters in New York, September 22, 2010. Emmanuel Dunand | AFP | Getty Images Federal Authorities on Tuesday sued…

Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun to step down; board chair and commercial airplane head replaced in wake of 737 Max crisis

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[ad_1] Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun speaks to reporters as he departs from a meeting at the office of Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) on Capitol Hill January 24, 2024 in Washington, DC.  Anna Moneymaker | Getty Images Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun will step down at the end of 2024 in part of a broad management shakeup for the embattled aerospace giant. Chairman of the board Larry Kellner is also resigning and will leave the board at Boeing’s annual meeting in May. He has been replaced as chair by Steve Mollenkopf, who…

5 Shocking Revelations from Face The Nation with Warnock, Montoya-Galvez, and Vinograd!

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[ad_1] Watch CBS News   Missed the second half of the show? The latest on…Sen. Raphael Warnock tells “Face the Nation” that he believes that “Georgia voters are going to do for Joe Biden what they did for me” and go blue again in 2020, in an exclusive interview with CBS News’ Camilo Montoya-Galvez, U.S. Border Patrol chief Jason Owens said the situation at the southern border is a “national security threat”, and Samantha Vinograd, a CBS News contributor and former counterterrorism official for the Department of Homeland Security in…

As Trump's $454 million fraud judgment deadline looms, son Eric gripes 'they want to bankrupt him'

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[ad_1] Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the media after voting at a polling station setup in the Morton and Barbara Mandel Recreation Center on March 19, 2024, in Palm Beach, Florida.  Joe Raedle | Getty Images Donald Trump faces the severe risk that New York‘s attorney general will begin trying to collect a $454 million civil business fraud judgment against him on Monday unless an appeals court gives the former president a last-minute reprieve. Trump’s son Eric, a co-defendant in the fraud case, accused Attorney General Letitia James…

Trump says 'I love Truth Social' one day after DWAC stock plunges on social media merger vote

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[ad_1] Zoom In IconArrows pointing outwards Chart for price of shares in Digital World Acquisition Corp. in days leading up to and including shareholder approval of merger with Donald Trump’s social media company. CNBC Donald Trump on Saturday told his many online followers, “I LOVE TRUTH SOCIAL” — but shareholders in the newly merged company that will own that social media app might not feel so great after a sharp drop in price the day before. The shell company Digital World Acquisition Corp. saw its share price plunge nearly 14%…

Biden signs $1.2 trillion spending package for government funding until October

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[ad_1] U.S. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris meet with (L-R) Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), on February 27, 2024 at the White House in Washington, DC. Roberto Schmidt | Getty Images President Joe Biden on Saturday signed Congress‘ $1.2 trillion spending package, finalizing the remaining batch of bills in a long-awaited budget to keep the government funded until Oct. 1. Almost halfway into the fiscal year, the president’s signature…

Senate passes $1.2 trillion government funding bill, sending it to Biden

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[ad_1] The dome of the U.S. Capitol is seen on March 22, 2024 in Washington, DC. Anna Moneymaker | Getty Images News | Getty Images WASHINGTON — The Senate voted 74-24 early Saturday morning to pass a sweeping $1.2 trillion government funding bill after heated last-minute negotiations caused senators to breach the midnight deadline to avert a shutdown. But the funding lapse was brief and technical, having no meaningful impact as the White House said it has “ceased shutdown preparations” due to a Senate agreement, which came after Republicans demanded…

SpaceX hit with new NLRB complaint over severance agreements, dispute resolution rules

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[ad_1] The SpaceX logo is shown on a Falcon 9 rocket as it is prepared for launch to carry NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 astronauts Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt, and Jeanette Epps, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin to the International Space Station at the Kennedy Space Center, in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S., March 2, 2024. Joe Skipper | Reuters The National Labor Relations Board accused SpaceX in a new complaint of entering into unlawful severance agreements with terminated employees nationwide. The unfair labor practices complaint comes two months after SpaceX filed a…