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Atlanta related to efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia and must also decide whether to attend the first Republican presidential debate on August 23. Trump campaign officials said they were not worried about such logistical challenges. But the challenge for Trump goes beyond politics.

A popular U.S. program that offers permanent American residency to foreigners who invest in qualified job-creating projects has sweetened the offer—and attracted fresh interest from wealthy Chinese seeking a way out of their country. Many Chinese are worried about their country’s direction after three years of harsh Covid-19 restrictions, tougher ideological controls under Chinese leader Xi Jinping, rising tensions with the West and dimmer economic prospects.

Long Island has died after she was left in a car for eight hours while her grandmother went to work, Suffolk County police said Tuesday.The little girl, named Chyasia Evans, was supposed to be dropped off at daycare on Monday morning, but her grandmother forgot and went straight to work. She got out of the car, a red Jeep Cherokee, and left the child in a car seat in the back, NBC New York reported.About eight hours later, at 4:20 p.m., the child was supposed to be picked up from daycare, so the grandmother left work and found the child still inside her car.At that point, she was already not breathing, according to the audio recording of the 911 call.The toddler was rushed to Saint Catherine of Siena Medical Center in Smithtown, a small town on Long Island, where she was pronounced dead.

Lawyers for FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried say prosecutors are wrong to seek his detention prior to trial because their arguments are based on “innuendo, speculation, and scant facts.”

A sharp split between two federal judges in New York has boosted and then dragged down cryptocurrency values in recent weeks, as investors look for clarity on a crucial question: Is crypto a security?

Donald Trump won the presidency even as criminal charges against him still loomed, a series of extraordinary complications would ensue. The indictment Tuesday on federal charges stemming from his attempts to remain in power after his 2020 election loss added to the mounting legal peril Trump, the front-runner for the Republican Party, faces as he campaigns for a second term in the White House.

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried said Tuesday that prosecutors are wrong to seek his detention prior to trial because their arguments are built on «innuendo, speculation, and scant facts.» The written submission in Manhattan federal court was a response to the prosecution's claim last week that no bail conditions can stop the onetime cryptocurrency power broker from trying to improperly influence the potential jury pool for his October 2 trial. Bankman-Fried, 31, has been free on a $250 million personal recognizance bond since his December extradition from the Bahamas to face charges in New York that he defrauded investors in his businesses by diverting millions of dollars from their intended purpose.

Lawyers for Sam Bankman-Fried have denied that he attempted to intimidate witnesses in his criminal trial by talking to New York Times reporters and argued there is no reason to jail him.

JetBlue shares are losing altitude as the airline warns that third-quarter and full-year results will be worse than it had previously expected

Shygirl and Tinashe are teaming up for an exciting co-headlining tour across North America in October and November this year. The tour kicks off in Chicago and concludes in Oakland, with stops in cities like Toronto, New York, and Atlanta. Tinashe's upcoming album, BB/ANG3L, is expected to release later this year, while Shygirl recently dropped her Nymph in the Wild EP, following her last year's full-length album Nymph. Earlier this year, she released a deluxe version of Nymph featuring Tinashe on an updated version of «Heaven» and a Björk remix of "Woe."

A senior analyst with Goldman Sachs vanished over the weekend after attending a concert in New York City.

Something curious is happening at Metals Acquisition Corp.

By Jonathan Stempel

The Supreme Court last summer sought to clarify its expansive reading of the Second Amendment. Instead, it set off chaos. The decision in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v.

A United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) lawsuit against Terraform Labs is set to go ahead after a U.S. judge overseeing the case denied the firm's motion to dismiss on July 31. 

The SEC has filed charges against a registered representative for allegedly stealing more than $2 million from a client and using the proceeds to finance the financial advisor’s personal spending.

US Republican Congressman George Santos attempted to set up a crypto-related investment deal with a donor during an election campaign in 2020, according to a recent New York Times report.

According to a recent poll conducted by New York Times/Siena College former US President Donald Trump is dominating his rivals for the Republican presidential nomination, leading his nearest challenger, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis by 37 percentage points, the New York Times reported on Monday. The poll results reveal that Trump enjoys robust support across demographic group and region and in every ideological wing of the party. A staggering 54% of likely Republican voters back Trump, compared to a distant 17% for Governor DeSantis.

X Corp., the parent company of Twitter, has threatened a nonprofit origination—which tracks hate speech and misinformation on social media --of legal action saying it tried to hurt the social platform with its research, the New York Times reported. The New York Times reported that X Corp. has sent a notice the Center for Countering Digital Hate accusing it of making “a series of troubling and baseless claims that appear calculated to harm Twitter generally, and its digital advertising business specifically" and threatening to sue.

New York has won the inaugural edition of Major League Cricket, the US T20 league, beating Seattle Orcas by 7 wickets. Major League Cricket (MLC) is a professional Twenty20 cricket league in the United States. Six team representing major US cities participated in the tournament that started on July 13.

The London Stock Exchange has seen a string of departures this year, as companies flee from cheap valuations towards the deeper investor pool the US market offers.