Donald Trump urged two Michigan election officials not to certify Democrat Joe Biden’s victory in the state following the 2020 presidential election, personally calling them in a pressure campaign reminiscent of his Georgia tactics, the Detroit News reported. In a Nov. 17, 2020, phone call, the then-president told two fellow Republicans on the Wayne County…
Apple has opened negotiations in recent weeks with major news and publishing organizations, seeking permission to use their material in the company’s development of generative artificial intelligence systems, the New York Times reported on Friday. The iPhone maker has floated multiyear deals worth at least $50 million to license the archives of news articles, according…
The Palestinian foreign ministry and the Islamist group Hamas issued opposing statements on Friday in response to the adoption by the United Nations Security Council of a resolution intended to help bring more humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip. The Palestinian foreign ministry, which is part of the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority, called the resolution…
Solutions to all of society’s problems are in the Bhagavad Gita and its message should reach every corner of the country and the world, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said here on Friday. He was addressing a gathering at the Sant Sammelan after visiting the International Gita Festival. The home minister said that in the…
 The Congress constituted its Manifesto Committee for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls on Friday and appointed former Union minister P Chidambaram as its chairman. Former Chhattisgarh deputy chief minister T S Singh Deo has been made the convenor of the important panel. The 16-member panel includes Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and Congress general secretary Priyanka…
Actor Charlie Sheen was attacked in his luxury Malibu home, police said Friday, with the suspect arrested and charged with assault and burglary. Officers were called to the “Two and a Half Men” star’s home for a “battery/disturbance,” Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said in a statement. “Upon contacting the parties involved, deputies identified Charlie…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi attended the BJP’s office-bearer meeting on Friday and said that work should be done keeping in mind youth, poor, women and farmers. Bharatiya Janata Party’s national office bearers’ meeting was held on Friday, which was presided over by party president JP Nadda. According to party sources, there was brainstorming in the…
Iran was “deeply involved” in planning operations against commercial vessels in the Red Sea and its intelligence was critical to enable Yemen’s Houthi movement to target ships, the White House said on Friday. Iran-backed Houthis, who say their attacks are in support of Palestinians under siege by Israel in Gaza, have targeted commercial shipping in…
The ruling BJD and opposition BJP on Friday engaged in a fight on X over social media influencer Kamiya Jani’s entry into the Jagannath Temple in Puri for making a video on the shrine. While the saffron camp charged the ruling BJD leader and former bureaucrat V K Pandian with facilitating the entry of Jani,…
The US Supreme Court declined on Friday to immediately hear former president Donald Trump’s claim that he is immune from prosecution, potentially delaying his 2020 election interference trial. Special Counsel Jack Smith had asked the Supreme Court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority, to take up the immunity case on an expedited basis, bypassing the…