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Donald Trump says ‘very wealthy group’ has agreed to buy TikTok in the US | US News

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[ad_1] Donald Trump has said the US government has found a buyer for TikTok that he will reveal “in about two weeks”. The president told Fox News “it’s a group of very wealthy people”, adding: “I think I’ll probably need China approval, I think President Xi will probably do it.” TikTok was ordered last year to find a new owner for its US operation – or face a ban – after politicians said they feared sensitive data about Americans could be passed to the Chinese government. The video app’s owner, Bytedance, has repeatedly denied such claims. It originally had a deadline of 19 January to find a buyer – and many users were shocked when it “went dark” for a number of hours when that date came round, before later being restored. However, President Trump has now extended the deadline several times. The last extension was on 19 June, when the president signed another executive order pushing it back to 17 September. Mr Trump’s latest comments suggest multiple people coming together to take control of …

Senate Republicans vote to advance Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ | Donald Trump News

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[ad_1] The Republican-controlled Senate of the United States has voted to take President Donald Trump’s so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” into the next phase of discussion, making it more likely to pass in the coming days. The measure, which is Trump’s top legislative goal, passed its first procedural hurdle in a 51 to 49 vote on Saturday, with two Republican senators joining all Democrats in voting against it. The result came after several hours of negotiation as Republican leaders and Vice President JD Vance sought to persuade last-minute holdouts in a series of closed-door negotiations. Trump has pushed his party to get the bill passed and on his desk for him to sign into law by July 4, the US’s Independence Day. He was monitoring the vote from the Oval Office late into the night, according to a senior White House official. One Big Beautiful Bill Act Al Jazeera’s Mike Hanna, reporting from Washington, DC, said the 940-page “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” was released shortly before midnight on Friday, and senators are still attempting to …

Donald Trump and Sean Hannity Set Off a Wave of Disinformation After Iran Bombing

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[ad_1] “Nobody is celebrating war,” right-wing commentator Dave Rubin wrote on X on Sunday morning. “People are celebrating the end of war.” Pro-Trump commentator Ben Shapiro hailed Trump’s actions as historic on his YouTube channel: “President Trump was never going to start world war three…he played this absolutely perfectly… President Trump was not dragged into a war, he managed this with absolutely stunning professionalism.” However, just hours later, Trump raised the possibility of an extended military engagement in Iran when he suggested replacing the current leadership in a post on Truth Social. “It’s not politically correct to use the term, ‘Regime Change,’ but if the current Iranian Regime is unable to MAKE IRAN GREAT AGAIN, why wouldn’t there be a Regime change??? MIGA!!!,” Trump wrote. Trump’s suggestion came after his own vice president, secretary of defense, and secretary of state had all declared that the bombing raid had nothing to do with regime change. A MAGA cohort had warned for weeks that any attempt to replace the Iranian government would lead to a protracted war …

Kim Kardashian Gets Authentic Donald Judd Tables in Legal Settlement

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[ad_1] The Judd Foundation reached a settlement with Kim Kardashian and Clements Design earlier this month, according to court records, after the reality TV star promoted knockoff versions of the late artist’s minimalist tables and chairs. The lawsuit centered around a now-deleted 2022 promotional video in which Kardashian tours the offices of her Skims by Kim company, therein boasting about what she called her “Donald Judd tables.” The tables in question are reminiscent of Judd’s La Mansana Table 22 and Chair 84. The video received more than 3.6 million views before it was removed. In 2024, the foundation sued her over false claims, as the dining set is not an authentic Judd. Related Articles In a joint statement, the Judd Foundation and Clements agreed to acknowledge the “rights inherent to Donald Judd’s furniture and art.” Adding that Kardashian instead “will now have authentic Donald Judd tables and chairs from Donald Judd Furniture LLC”. The Judd Foundation previously insisted that the video be deleted and the furniture “recycled”. The agreement comes as a surprise twist, departing from what Megan Bannigan, …

Donald Trump’s Super-Special 79th Was Not Super Special

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[ad_1] Dear Diary, I did NOT have the birthday of my dreams last weekend! Everyone knows that 79 is the tank birthday. One is paper, 77 is emoluments, 78 you get to destroy one constitutional amendment of your choosing, 80 you get to become the state, but 79 is tanks, and I was so looking forward to my tank birthday. I thought it was pretty clear what I wanted. But obviously, it wasn’t!!! This was like the kind of tank parade your mom makes you lovingly from scratch, and I wanted the kind of tank parade that is made in China or North Korea. I don’t want a special American tank parade where our soldiers are waving and smiling out of the tanks. I want one like my friends have. I wanted tanks, but I got OLD tanks. I wanted marching, but I got the wrong kind of marching, where they didn’t even do the little high-kick thing. I wanted millions of people to come out and cheer and hold up pictures of my face …

Donald Tusk survives confidence vote to remain Polish PM – POLITICO

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[ad_1] “I have no questions for Donald Tusk. You don’t ask liars questions,” said Janusz Kowalski, an MP for PiS. “June 1 marked the end of the project called Donald Tusk, just like communism ended 36 years ago. This is the end of the prime minister of illegal migrants, the prime minister of public finance disaster, the prime minister of lies and contempt for Poles,” Kowalski said. In his speech, Tusk defended his government’s record and urged parliament to reaffirm its backing for him, saying “11.5 million voters handed the responsibility for Poland” to the coalition in the 2023 election that ended eight years of PiS-led governments. Contrary to some expectations, however, the PM did not offer a broad outlook on what his government is planning to do before 2027, the year of the next general election which could see Tusk’s government swept from power. He said more changes are coming with a government reshuffle in July. Tusk cited rising defense expenditure, a drop in the number of visas issued to migrants from Asia and …

Behind the Scenes, Elon Musk Is Reportedly Seething About Donald Trump

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[ad_1] The drama between US president Donald Trump and his former buddy-in-chief Elon Musk is far from over. As ABC reported today, now that he’s been summarily retired from the White House, the billionaire SpaceX boss has been privately venting his frustrations at Trump. One particularly stinging betrayal, per the network’s reporting: Trump’s sudden withdrawal of Musk’s buddy and financial benefactor, Jared Isaacman, from consideration to be the next NASA administrator. As the day progressed, Musk’s tension with Trump exploded into public view as history’s richest man tweeted or amplified no less than 25 posts blasting Trump’s “big, beautiful” tax and spending bill, which takes the form of yet another piece of legislation meant to gut assistance for the poorest Americans while siphoning money to the ultra-wealthy. However, that isn’t Musk’s issue with the package. Instead, his commentary is centered on the bill’s impact on the US national deficit — something he tried and failed to curb in any meaningful way during his time as a pay-to-play government operative. On X-formerly-Twitter, Musk’s frenzied posts range from Rand Paul …

Donald Trump’s Media Conglomerate Is Becoming a Bitcoin Reserve

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[ad_1] Trump Media and Technology Group, a publicly traded company in which US president Donald Trump and his family own a majority stake, has raised $2.5 billion to accumulate a “bitcoin treasury.” On Monday, in response to a report by the Financial Times, TMTG initially denied contemplating any such maneuver. “The Financial Times has dumb writers listening to even dumber sources,” the company reportedly said. But Trump Media and Technology Group appears to have since changed its tune. In a press release on Tuesday, TMTG confirmed that it has agreed to sell $1.5 billion worth of equity and take on a further $1 billion in debt—and plans to use the proceeds to add vast quantities of bitcoin to its balance sheet. The deal puts TMTG in competition with a growing stable of bitcoin accumulation stocks, which act as a substitute of sorts for investing in bitcoin, without investors having to handle crypto themselves. In theory, as the price of bitcoin rises and falls, so should the stock price of the companies with large bitcoin treasuries. …

Pete Rose, Donald Trump and the corruption of literally everything

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[ad_1] On May 13, the commissioner of Major League Baseball, Rob Manfred, issued a decision reinstating Hall of Fame eligibility of 17 deceased former players, all of whom had previously been permanently banned from possible inclusion. BFD, you might say, and you would be right. Given climate change, the planet’s wars and the horrific last four months that sane Americans have had to endure, what difference does any of that make? You may think that professional sports are mere Roman circuses to keep the proles diverted from matters their rulers don’t want them to think about, except that unlike the circuses of the Roman Empire, which were free, the American varieties charge exorbitant admission prices (either directly or through cable and streaming charges). Even more inviting of cynicism, Manfred’s reinstatement involves players who gambled on their own sport while they were actively competing. In light of the explosive growth of sports gambling ($13.7 billion in revenue in 2024) since it was legalized nationwide in 2018 — by the U.S. Supreme Court, eager to give a …

Trump blocks Harvard’s ability to enrol international students | Donald Trump News

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[ad_1] US President Donald Trump’s administration has blocked Harvard University’s ability to enrol international students, according to the Department of Homeland Security. In a post on X on Thursday, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said the Trump administration was “holding Harvard accountable for fostering violence, antisemitism, and coordinating with the Chinese Communist Party on its campus”. “It is a privilege, not a right, for universities to enrol foreign students and benefit from their higher tuition payments to help pad their multibillion-dollar endowments,” she said. “Harvard had plenty of opportunity to do the right thing. It refused.” In a letter to the university’s administration, Noem said the university’s Student Exchange Visitor Program certification has been revoked. The programme is overseen by the US Homeland Security Investigations unit, which falls under the agency Noem leads. The move means that not only will Harvard not be able to accept foreign students on its campus, but current students will need to “transfer to another university in order to maintain their non-immigrant status”, the letter said. In a statement, Harvard …