X formally allows X-rated content on platform
SAN FRANCISCO, United States — Elon Musk's X, formerly Twitter, has updated its rules to officially allow adult and graphic content on the platform.
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Biden reassures big-money donors after debate debacle
OCEANPORT, United States — US President Joe Biden attended a triple-header of campaign fundraisers Saturday, seeking to reassure high-dollar donors he can still win reelection in November despite a debate performance that sparked panic among many Democrats.
Fact check: The first 2024 US presidential debate
WASHINGTON, United States — US President Joe Biden and Republican challenger Donald Trump traded barbs Thursday in the first debate of the 2024 election campaign.
Biden, Trump take stage for US presidential debate
ATLANTA, United States — US President Joe Biden and his Republican challenger Donald Trump launched into their first debate of the 2024 election cycle Thursday at CNN's headquarters in Atlanta.
Philippines seeking US clarification on anti-vax propaganda operation
MANILA: The Philippines is still seeking clarification from the Pentagon about a secret US propaganda operation that aimed to cast doubt among Filipinos about Chinese vaccines at the height of the COVID pandemic, a foreign ministry official said on tuesday. A Reuters investigation on June 14 detailed how the Pentagon ran a clandestine influence campaign in 2020 and 2021 to denigrate the Sinovac vaccine and other pandemic aid from China across the developing world. The effort was intended to counter what Washington then saw as China's growing geopolitical sway around the globe, including in Southeast Asia. It began under former President Donald Trump and ended months after President Joseph Biden took office. "We have not received an official and formal response yet on any confirmation, denial, or anything. We are waiting on that. We continue to monitor and ask for information," foreign affairs assistant Secretary Jose Victor Chan-Gonzaga told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which is investigating the US information campaign.
Mic cuts, no audience: How the Biden-Trump debate will work
NEW YORK, United States — There will be no studio audience, depriving candidates of the momentum that comes from ginning up supporters. Microphones will cut out when a candidate's speaking time is over. Thursday night's presidential debate will not be business as usual.
Biden to ease immigration pathway for spouses of US citizens
WASHINGTON, United States — President Joe Biden on Tuesday will unveil new rules easing the process for undocumented spouses of US citizens to obtain permanent residency status, the White House said.
Stagflation
Presidential candidate and convicted felon Donald Trump promised to raise tariffs to pave the way for the elimination of all income taxes. The proposal was universally condemned by America’s most respected economists.
The decline of SCOTUS
Former Chief Justice Art Panganiban has written how his awe and reverence for the nine-person Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) have turned to dismay and desolation largely because of “what I believe are unethical, if not illegal, practices of its incumbents, such as receipt of enormous sums as royalties, speaking fees, gifts from friends, paid vacations with private yachts and private planes in exclusive hotels, hobnobbing with the rich and famous in private clubs and, lately, partisan political bias.”