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Month: July 2023

Workers install lighting on an "X" sign atop the company headquarters

‘X’ removed after being installed atop company headquarters following Twitter’s rebrand

By Elizabeth Joseph, CNN (CNN) — Officials from the San Francisco Department of Building Inspection on Monday morning observed that the new “X” on top of the building formerly known as Twitter’s headquarters was being dismantled, according to Patrick Hannan, the department’s spokesman. The news comes after the company was issued a notice of violation

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Indian American engineer says he was fired by defense contractor after speaking Hindi at work

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) — An Indian-American engineer says he was fired last year from his long-time job with a missile defense contractor’s Alabama office after he was heard speaking Hindi on a video call. Anil Varshney, 78, filed a federal lawsuit against Parsons Corporation. U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin, whose department oversees the United

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Nigerian leader has announced economic measures to ease hardship as labor unions threaten protests

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s newly elected president has announced a raft of economic measures to ease growing hardship in Africa’s most populous country just as labour unions threatened protests to demand more action from the government. In a state broadcast on Monday, Bola Tinubu announced incentives and credit for

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ANÁLISIS | 40 millones de formas en que la campaña de Trump se está transformando en su defensa legal

Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — El fatídico choque entre el embrollo legal del expresidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, y las elecciones de 2024 se profundiza en medio de nuevas señales de que su campaña republicana para encabezar las encuestas está diseñada en parte para financiar su defensa y vencer los cargos penales. La noticia

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Hunter Biden sold ‘illusion of access’ to his father, former business partner tells Congress

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Hunter Biden’s former business partner has testified to Congress that President Joe Biden was never directly involved in their financial dealings, even though Hunter would often put his famous father on speakerphone to impress clients and business associates. The Republican-led House Oversight Committee conducted a more than

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Haitians, weary of gang violence, protest the kidnapping of an American nurse and her daughter

By EVENS SANON and MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Hundreds of Haitians have marched through the capital, Port-au-Prince, in protest at the reported abduction of an American nurse and her daughter. Alix Dorsainvil was working for El Roi Haiti, a nonprofit Christian ministry, when she and her daughter were seized by gunmen

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