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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the US has seen evidence of Chinese attempts to “influence and arguably interfere” with the upcoming US elections‚ despite an earlier commitment from leader Xi Jinping not to do so. Blinken made the comments to CNN’s Kylie Atwood in an interview Friday at the close of a three-day to trip to China‚ where the top American diplomat spent hours meeting with top Chinese officials including Xi‚ as the two countries navigated a raft of...

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. threatened to challenge a potential TikTok ban Friday‚ as efforts to block the video app in the U.S. came closer to reality earlier this week. “I’m going to file a lawsuit challenging the TikTok ban on Constitutional grounds‚” Kennedy wrote on social media platform X. “Don’t be fooled — the TikTok ban is not about China harvesting your data. That’s a smoke screen.” “Intelligence agencies from lots of countries‚ especially ours...

Columbia University banned Khymani James‚ a 20-year-old pro-Palestinian student protest organizer‚ from its campus on Friday after it was reported he previously made violent remarks toward Zionists. “I want to make clear that calls of violence and statements targeted at individuals based on their religious‚ ethnic or national identity are unacceptable and violate university policy‚” the university spokesperson said. Earlier this week‚ it emerged that James‚ who is...

Alejandro Fonseca stood in line for several hours outside a bank in Havana hoping to withdraw Cuban pesos from an ATM‚ but when it was almost his turn‚ the cash ran out. He angrily hopped on his electric tricycle and traveled several kilometers to another branch where he finally managed to withdraw some money after wasting the entire morning. “It shouldn’t be so difficult to get the money you earn by working‚” the 23-year-old told The Associated Press in a recent interview. Fonseca is one...

Dave Duttlinger's first thought when he saw a dense band of yellowish-brown dust smearing the sky above his Indiana farm was: I warned them this would happen. About 445 acres of his fields near Wheatfield‚ Indiana‚ are covered in solar panels and related machinery – land that in April 2019 Duttlinger leased to Dunns Bridge Solar LLC‚ for one of the largest solar developments in the Midwest. On that blustery spring afternoon in 2022‚ Duttlinger said‚ his phone rang with questions from...