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Trump's social media venture seeks to raise $1 bn, taps hedge funds

Trump Media & Technology Group, which has yet to roll out the social media app it says it is developing, already stands to receive $293 million.

Panel probing Capitol riot seeks contempt charge against Trump-era official

The US House committee probing the January 6 attack on the Capitol has voted in favour of seeking a contempt charge against former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark.

Appeals court weighs Trump arguments to withhold records of Jan 6 incident

A panel of judges questioned whether they had the authority to grant Donald Trump's demands and overrule President Joe Biden's decision to grant Congress documents related to the Jan 6 insurrection

Nuclear talks resume as West asks whether Iran is serious or stalling

Diplomats say time is running low to resurrect the pact, which then-US President Donald Trump abandoned in 2018, angering Iran and dismaying the other powers involved

Ex-defence chief sues Pentagon for withholding material to use in memoir

Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper claims in a lawsuit against the Defense Department that material is being improperly withheld from his use as he seeks to publish an unvarnished and candid memoir

Joe Biden mulls reversing Trump rules on western grouse species

The announcement of a range-wide evaluation of habitat plans for greater sage grouse came after the Trump administration tried to scale back conservation efforts

South Korea calls on US to revise Trump-era tariff rules on steel exports

South Korea called on the US to launch negotiations swiftly to revise the tariff rules imposed by Trump's administration on Seoul's steel exports

Ex-Trump aide subpoenaed over alleged interference in Covid response

A US House panel probing former President Donald Trump's administration's response to the Covid-19 pandemic has issued a subpoena to Peter Navarro, a former aide

46% of US voters want Republicans to regain control of Congress: Poll

A 46 per cent plurality of registered US voters eyeing the 2022 elections would prefer that Republicans regain control of House of Representatives and Senate: Poll.

Former Trump adviser Bannon to plead not guilty to contempt of Congress

Steve Bannon, a one-time adviser to former US President Donald Trump, is pleading not guilty to his contempt of Congress charges

US regulators propose to drop Trump rule on railway hauling natural gas

Federal regulators have proposed suspending a Trump administration rule that would have allowed railroads to haul liquefied natural gas

Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon indicted by federal grand jury

A US federal grand jury indicted former Donald Trump's adviser Steve Bannon on two counts of contempt of Congress

US Court temporarily delays release of Donald Trump's Jan 6 records

The order effectively delays until the end of this month the release of records that were to be turned over Friday. The appeals court set arguments in the case for November 30.

House January 6 panel subpoenas 10 former White House aides

It is so far unclear if the Jan 6 panel will subpoena Trump, though the committee's leaders have said they haven't ruled anything out

Jack Ma, Trump and Xi: How Chinese billionaire flew close to the sun

Ma's charitable foundation, which handles his media queries, did not respond to a request for comment.

Trump-tied meme stock world gets bigger with NFT drop

Shares in Creatd Inc. surged as much as 69% after the company announced a new non-fungible token art drop through its OG Gallery unit consisting of three photographs of Trump

Donald Trump-tied SPAC ignites retail investor frenzy amid 1,225% surge

Trump's fans on social media have pumped the stock on Reddit and StockTwits, fueling heavy trading

Donald Trump announces launch of his very own social media site

Nine months after being expelled from social media for his role in inciting the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection, former President Donald Trump said Wednesday he's launching a new media company with its own social media platform. Trump says his goal in launching the Trump Media & Technology Group and its Truth Social" app is to create a rival to the Big Tech companies that have shut him out and denied him the megaphone that was paramount to his national rise. We live in a world where the Taliban has a huge presence on Twitter, yet your favorite American President has been silenced," he said in a statement. This is unacceptable. Conservative voices actually do well on traditional social media. On Wednesday, half of Facebook's 10 top performing link posts were from conservative media, commentators or politicians, according to a daily list compiled by a New York Times technology columnist and an internet studies professor using Facebook's own data. Trump has spoken about launching his own

Donald Trump announces launch of media company, social media site

Nine months after being expelled from social media for his role in inciting the January 6 Capitol insurrection, former President Donald Trump said Wednesday he's launching a new media company with its own social media platform. Trump says his goal in launching the Trump Media & Technology Group and its TRUTH Social" app is to create a rival to the Big Tech companies that have shut him out and denied him the megaphone that was paramount to his national rise. We live in a world where the Taliban has a huge presence on Twitter, yet your favorite American President has been silenced," he said in a statement. This is unacceptable. In a release, the new venture announced it had been created through a merger with Digital World Acquisition Corp. and said it seeks to become a publicly listed company. Trump has spoken about launching his own social media site ever since he was barred from Twitter and Facebook. An earlier effort to launch a blog on his existing website was abandoned after ...

US House panel holds Trump's former adviser in criminal contempt

A special committee of the US House investigating the January 6 Capitol riot case voted unanimously