New York City Mayor Eric Adams is expected to meet with Donald Trump on Friday in Palm Beach, Florida, amid speculation that the president-elect could pardon him on federal corruption charges. Adams spokesperson Fabien Levy wrote in a post on X Thursday that the mayor has made clear his “willingness” to work with Trump and his incoming administration “and that partnership with the federal government is critical to New York City’s success.””Tomorrow, Mayor Adams will sit down with President-elect Trump and discuss New Yorkers’ priorities,” Levy said. “The mayor looks forward to having a productive conversation with the incoming president…
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As the Supreme Court was poised on Friday to announce its landmark decision on whether to uphold a law that would effectively ban TikTok in the United States, the popular Chinese-owned app and its allies launched a last-minute push to fend off the statute’s enforcement.The company’s representatives have swarmed Capitol Hill in recent days, pressing lawmakers with TikTok’s case, three people familiar with the efforts said. The app, which is owned by ByteDance, should win a reprieve, the company representatives say, and warn that if it doesn’t it may go dark on Sunday when the law is scheduled to go…
UK’s Keir Starmer is eager to sign a 100-year partnership with Ukraine to strengthen security in the Baltic, Azov, and Black Seas and increase economic and cultural ties. The pact will ensure that the UK is obligated to support Ukraine regardless of who comes to power after Starmer. A Russian drone strike targeting Kyiv amid Starmer’s meeting with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky strengthened their resolve. “For me, that drone attack is just really a reminder of what Ukraine is facing every day and a reminder that this war is brought about by Russian aggression,” Starmer told reporters at a press…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called President Trump on Thursday and thanked him for his assistance in brokering the peace agreement and hostage release with the Hamas terrorists. As reported earlier, President-elect Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy Scott Witkoff was the deciding factor in securing a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, but President Joe Biden nevertheless took a victory lap anyway. According to Arab officials, Witkoff did more to move Netanyahu toward a ceasefire in a single meeting than Joe Biden did the entire previous year. On Thursday Prime Minister Netanyahu called President Trump and thanked him. This was…
In the recent complaint, Baldoni alleges that Reynolds and famous singer Taylor Swift pressured him to accept a rewritten version of Lively’s script for the movie, “It Ends With Us. “Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively have been at loggerheads after the actress filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against him after they both started in the film.Article continues below advertisementJustin Baldoni Claims Taylor Swift Pressured Him To Accept Blake Lively’s RewriteMEGABaldoni has shed more light on what allegedly happened behind the scenes before he could bring Colleen Hoover’s bestselling novel “It Ends With Us” to life on the big screen.In a…
Immigrant farmworkers are preparing for incoming US president Donald Trump’s promise of mass deportations, including by assigning guardians for their children if they are detained, according to groups providing them legal support. Rising demand for such legal services reflects anxiety that Trump will follow through on a campaign vow to deport millions of undocumented immigrants once he is sworn in to office Jan 20, something that could have an outsized impact on the country’s agricultural sector, which heavily relies on their labour. About half of hired farmworkers nationwide lack legal immigration status, according to the US Department of Agriculture, and…
Coco Gauff has extended her unblemished start to the season with a straight-sets win over Leylah Fernandez on Friday to roll into the second week of the Australian Open. The American world number three, one of the favourites for the Melbourne title, eased to a 6-4, 6-2 third-round win on Rod Laver Arena against the 30th seed from Canada. Gauff is yet to drop a set this season in eight matches having won all five of her singles at the season-opening United Cup, including a 6-3, 6-2 win over Fernandez which was the pair’s only previous clash. “I think it…
It was reported earlier this week that North Carolina Tar Heels football head coach Bill Belichick was making certain people within the university and the ACC “nervous” over the fact that he had “yet to hire many staff members” at North Carolina. There may be another sign that Belichick isn’t as fully committed to his current job as he and North Carolina general manager Mike Lombardi want outsiders to believe. “Presently, there is not a fully executed and signed contract between Belichick and UNC,” Jonathan Jones of CBS Sports reported on Thursday. “Industry sources say that could create a legal gray area about how much, if any, of…
The house was a sweet little Tudor Revival at the foot of the San Gabriel Mountains where Pasadena gives way to Altadena.The $130,000 asking price was a steal, our real estate agent told us, and we’d be fools not to grab it. This was the mid-1980s, and there was no greater incarnation of the Los Angeles dream, as she put it, than living in suburbia amid the wonders of nature.I looked out the picture window and saw rock, ravine, oak, canyon, stream. We were steps away from disaster, I reckoned, from earthquake and fire. I might have questioned her more…
TikTok and its parent company, China-based ByteDance, asked the U.S. Supreme Court in December to pause the mid-January deadline imposed by U.S. lawmakers last April that forces ByteDance to sell TikTok or face being banned in the U.S.The hearing on Friday, January 10 lasted for more than two hours. But the Supreme Court still hasn’t ruled on whether to uphold the ban, which is set to go into effect on January 19. Reports note that TikTok is preparing to “go dark” on Sunday.Justice Amy Coney Barrett noted during the proceedings, “The law doesn’t say TikTok has to shut down. It…