Google must sell Chrome to end search monopoly, US prosecutors argue | Business and Economy News

Google must sell Chrome to end search monopoly, US prosecutors argue | Business and Economy News

The Department of Justice said Google had ‘deprived rivals’ of opportunities to expand their search engine market share. Alphabet’s Google should be forced to sell its Chrome browser and share data with competitors, prosecutors in the United States have argued, as part of a list of proposals intended to end…

US House committee withholds report on Trump attorney general pick Gaetz | Donald Trump News

US House committee withholds report on Trump attorney general pick Gaetz | Donald Trump News

Matt Gaetz has faced allegations of sex trafficking a 17-year-old girl, drug use, and misappropriating campaign funds. A congressional ethics panel that investigated allegations of illegal conduct by Matt Gaetz, United States President-elect Donald Trump’s choice for attorney general, has parted without releasing its report on the former congressman. Gaetz…

US ‘Secret War’ remembered as Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin visits Laos | Conflict News

US ‘Secret War’ remembered as Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin visits Laos | Conflict News

In August, the family of United States Air Force Sergeant David S Price finally buried his remains after more than 50 years of waiting. The 26-year-old was stationed at a top-secret CIA base – Lima Site 85 – on a mountaintop in northeast Laos when it was overrun by Lao…

Musk, Ramaswamy outline ‘drastic’ cuts as US gov’t efficiency tsars | Economy

Musk, Ramaswamy outline ‘drastic’ cuts as US gov’t efficiency tsars | Economy

Trump allies say they will ‘liberate individuals and businesses from illicit regulations never passed by Congress’. Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, United States President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming “efficiency” tsars, have outlined plans for a “drastic reduction” in regulations and “mass head-count reductions”. In an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal…

US Senate votes down effort to withhold weapons to Israel amid Gaza war | Israel-Palestine conflict News

US Senate votes down effort to withhold weapons to Israel amid Gaza war | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Washington, DC – The United States Senate has rejected a bill that aimed to block a US weapons sale to Israel amid the country’s war on Gaza, an outcome that rights advocates say does not take away from a growing push to condition aid to Washington’s top ally. A resolution…

Archegos’s Bill Hwang sentenced to 18 years in prison for massive US fraud | Crime News

Archegos’s Bill Hwang sentenced to 18 years in prison for massive US fraud | Crime News

Hwang had been convicted in July on 10 criminal charges including wire and securities fraud, market manipulation. Former billionaire investor Sung Kook “Bill” Hwang has been sentenced to 18 years in prison over the collapse of Archegos Capital Management, which cost Wall Street banks more than $10bn. Hwang was sentenced…

Indian conglomerate chair Gautam Adani indicted in the US | Business and Economy News

Indian conglomerate chair Gautam Adani indicted in the US | Business and Economy News

Gautam Adani, the chair of Indian conglomerate Adani Group and one of the world’s richest people, has been indicted in New York over an alleged multibillion-dollar fraud scheme, United States prosecutors have said. On Wednesday authorities charged Adani and two other executives at Adani Green Energy, his nephew Sagar Adani…

Comcast to spin off cable TV networks as ‘streaming won’ | Television News

Comcast to spin off cable TV networks as ‘streaming won’ | Television News

Comcast will spin off many of its cable television networks that were once at the heart of the entertainment giant as people increasingly swap out their cable TV subscriptions for streaming platforms. Those one-time stars of Comcast’s NBCUniversal cable television networks include USA, Oxygen, E!, SYFY and the Golf Channel…

‘Bomb cyclone’ slams western US, leaving one dead and 600,000 without power | Weather News

‘Bomb cyclone’ slams western US, leaving one dead and 600,000 without power | Weather News

Authorities warn that severe winds and heavy rains are expected across the northwestern United States through Friday. A powerful storm known as a “bomb cyclone” has killed at least one person and knocked out power for hundreds of thousands across the West Coast of the United States. The bomb cyclone,…

US vetoes UN Security Council resolution demanding Gaza ceasefire | Israel-Palestine conflict News

US vetoes UN Security Council resolution demanding Gaza ceasefire | Israel-Palestine conflict News

The United States has vetoed a resolution at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) demanding an “immediate, unconditional and permanent” ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, as Israel’s bombardment of the Palestinian territory continues. The US voted down the measure on Wednesday morning while the 14 other members of the council…