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Donald Trump left the White House facing a cash crunch that threatened his business empire

The ongoing skirmish between Bellevue, Washington-based financial advisor Lars Knudsen and independent wealth giant Hightower Advisors has taken another turn as Knudsen claims a number of legal wins.

A $62 million project to dredge Puerto Rico’s biggest and most important seaport has started amid fierce opposition from environmentalists and a pending lawsuit

Xi Jinping has told his US counterpart Joe Biden that the Taiwan question is the «first red line» that must not be crossed by Washington, and warned that Beijing will not «sit on its hands» if "Taiwan independence" forces step up their "separatist activities" with the help of external elements. Biden spoke on the phone with Xi on Tuesday, marking the first conversation between the two leaders since their historic in-person summit last November in San Francisco and the latest in ongoing efforts by US and Chinese officials to defuse tensions between the two countries. The White House described the one-hour-45-minute conversation as «candid and constructive» on a range of issues on which the leaders agreed and disagreed. Biden stressed the need to maintain «peace and stability» across the Taiwan Strait and he also raised his concerns over China's support for Russia's defence industry, the White House said.

Anti-smoking groups are suing the U.S. government over a long-awaited ban on menthol cigarettes, which has been stalled at the White House for months

Federal Reserve officials will likely reduce their benchmark interest rate later this year, Chair Jerome Powell said, despite recent reports showing that the U.S. economy is still strong and that U.S. inflation picked up in January and February

«It was always a long row,» said Piet De Staercke of the line to go through passport screening. He, his wife and two sons were visiting Washington and Chicago. «We were a bit scared. But now with the app, it's amazing.» As travel continues to boom following pandemic-related slumps, U.S. Customs and Border Protection is expanding the use of technology like the Mobile Passport Control app the De Staercke family used in an effort to process the ever-growing number of passengers traveling internationally. And with events like a rare solar eclipse, the Olympics in Paris, and summer holidays still driving international travel, those numbers don't look set to drop any time soon.

Nebraska lawmakers have advanced a bill that would raise the state’s sales tax by 1 cent to 6.5% on every taxable dollar spent

The deaths of seven World Central Kitchen workers in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza was a tragic turn for an American homegrown charity that, in less than 15 years, has mushroomed from the grassroots brainchild of a celebrity chef into one of the world’s...

Jeff Bezos is expanding his real estate portfolio with a third mansion on South Florida's exclusive Indian Creek island. As reported by Bloomberg, the founder of Amazon.com Inc. has reportedly agreed to pay around $90 million in an off-market deal for a six-bedroom home in the Miami-area enclave.

U.S. job openings barely changed in February, staying at historically high levels in a sign that the American job market remains strong

The collapse of a proposal to relocate the Washington NBA and NHL teams to northern Virginia has set off an extraordinary round of bitter recriminations among some of the officials and companies that were parties to the deal

The movement to adopt state auto-IRAs has taken another step forward with new legislation in Washington to address the retirement savings gap for millions of its residents.

Baltimore last week is «healthy», according to a nonprofit organisation that has been in touch with the personnel. The 2.6km-long, four-lane bridge over the Patapsco River in Baltimore, came crashing down after Dali, a 984-foot cargo ship bound for Sri Lanka, collided against it in the early hours of March 26. The 21 crew members of Dali, of which 20 are Indians, are still onboard the crippled cargo ship nearly a week after the collision.

China launches an amphibious attack on Taiwan. The U.S. responds with a missile attack to sink Chinese ships.

Wall Street has always played a big role in politics, but never like this. Former President Donald Trump is tantalizingly close to tapping a multibillion-dollar windfall that could help pay his legal bills and give a much-needed cash injection to his presidential campaign. Almost no one saw it coming.

Robert Howarth is getting under the skin of the oil-and-gas industry. The gray-haired climate scientist says he doesn’t care. Howarth, a methane researcher at Cornell University, said in a recent study that exports of liquefied natural gas from the U.S.

Roman Storm, co-founder of the cryptocurrency mixer Tornado Cash, has submitted a motion to dismiss all three charges against him, claiming that he did not operate a money laundering business and did not violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.

GT vs SRH IPL 2024 Live Score: A struggling Gujarat Titans take on a resurgent Sunrisers Hyderabad on their home turf at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad. Both teams have had similar starts to the IPL season, losing 1 and winning 1 game each, and will meet for the third time today.Gujarat Titans started the IPL 2024 season with a bang, defeating their nemesis Mumbai Indians by 6 runs.

NEW DELHI : Former chief of the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre, Lindy Cameron, is tipped to become the country’s new high commissioner to India. Should her appointment be confirmed, Cameron will be the first woman to serve as the British high commissioner in New Delhi. Alex Ellis, the incumbent British envoy, is expected to demit office shortly and move on to another diplomatic posting.

GT: Shubman Gill (c), David Miller, Matthew Wade, Wriddhiman Saha, Kane Williamson, Abhinav Manohar, B. Sai Sudharsan, Darshan Nalkande, Vijay Shankar, Jayant Yadav, Rahul Tewatia, Noor Ahmad, Sai Kishore, Rashid Khan, Joshua Little, Mohit Sharma, Azmatullah Omarzai, Umesh Yadav, Shahrukh Khan, Sushant Mishra, Kartik Tyagi, Manav Suthar, Spencer Johnson, Sandeep Warrier, BR Sharath.