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Supreme Court immunity case: Live updates of oral arguments in Trump's fight for immunity
Lawyers for former president Donald Trump argue to the Supreme Court that he can't be criminally charged for any action he took while in office.
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Associated Press
US applications for jobless claims fall to lowest level in 9 weeks
Fewer Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week as the labor market continues to hold up despite higher interest rates imposed by the Federal Reserve in its bid to curb inflation. The Labor Department reported Thursday that unemployment claims for the week ending April 20 fell by 5,000 to 207,000 from 212,000 the previous week. Weekly unemployment claims are considered a proxy for the number of U.S. layoffs in a given week and a sign of where the job market is headed.
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Yahoo Finance
GDP: US economy grows at 1.6% annual pace in first quarter, falling short of estimates
The reading of first quarter economic growth comes at a crucial time as investors digest the potential impacts of the Fed holding interest rates higher for longer.
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AFP
Macron warns 'mortal' Europe needs stronger defence
French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday warned that Europe faced an existential threat from Russian aggression, calling on the continent to adopt a "credible" defence strategy less dependent on the United States."We need to build this strategic concept of a credible European defence for ourselves," Macron said, adding Europe could not be "a vassal" of the United States.
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Associated Press
Lawyer says Iran rapper famous for songs after 2022 killing of Mahsa Amini sentenced to death
A rapper in Iran who came to fame over his lyrics about the 2022 death of Mahsa Amini and criticizing the Islamic Republic has been sentenced to death, his lawyer and rights activists said Thursday. Confusion still surrounds the death sentence issued against 33-year-old metal shop worker Toomaj Salehi, as even Iran's state-run IRNA news agency and its judiciary did not formally confirm it. “Art must be allowed to criticize, to provoke, to push the boundaries in any society,” a panel of the U.N.'s independent experts on Iran said in a statement Thursday.
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Reuters
Amazon to invest $11 billion in Indiana to build data centers
The announcement by Amazon Web Services on Thursday builds on the online retail giant's already strong presence in the state, where it employs 26,000 full- and part-time staff. The new facilities will be build in St Joseph County in north-central Indiana and house computer equipment used to power cloud computing and generative artificial intelligence. Amazon did not specify how many data centers would be established.
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CNN
At this national park in Hawaiʻi, a natural paradise and a medical purgatory
Kalaupapa National Historical Park on the north side of Molokaʻi was the site of forced isolation for patients with leprosy.
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Politico
Trump on his high court hearing: 'A president has to have immunity'
He spoke early Thursday during a stop in New York.
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AFP
Paris landmark Moulin Rouge's windmill sails collapse
The sails of the windmill above the Moulin Rouge cabaret, one of the most famous landmarks in Paris, collapsed overnight, with its operator saying there was no foul play."I hope they repair it soon," he added. - 600,000 visitors annually - The Moulin Rouge, with its distinctive red windmill sails built of wood and metal, is located in northern Paris and is one of the most visited landmarks in the city.
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AFP
Turkey central bank holds key interest rate steady
Turkey's central bank held its key interest rate steady on Thursday but warned it could hike it again as the country's soaring inflation remains a headache for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government.Erdogan has allowed Turkey's central bank to hike its main policy rate from just 8.5 percent before his re-election last May to 50 percent.
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CNN
Trump downplays deadly Charlottesville rally as a ‘peanut’ compared to Israel-Gaza protests
Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday night downplayed the 2017 white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, that led to a woman’s death as a “peanut” compared to the demonstrations happening across the US against Israel’s actions in Gaza.
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NBC News
Supreme Court tackles Trump's broad claim of presidential immunity in election interference case
The Supreme Court considers Donald Trump’s assertion of total immunity from criminal charges over his attempt to overturn the 2020 election results.
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CNN
Meadows, Giuliani among indicted in Arizona in latest 2020 election subversion case
A grand jury in Arizona has handed up an indictment against former President Donald Trump’s allies over their efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss, including the fake electors from that state and several individuals connected to his campaign.
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Reuters
Spain prosecutor requests dismissal of corruption case against PM Sanchez's wife
Madrid's prosecuting authority said on Thursday it had requested the dismissal of a corruption case against Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez's wife that prompted him to announce he is considering resigning. The authority said it was appealing Wednesday's decision by a Madrid court to look into a private complaint laid by anti-corruption activists against Begona Gomez over alleged influence peddling and business corruption. The Spanish anti-graft group behind the complaint, Manos Limpias (Clean Hands), said earlier it had based its suit on media reports and could not vouch for their veracity.
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AFP
NGOs accuse ADB of funding Indonesia coal plants despite clean energy promises
Green NGOs have accused the Asian Development Bank of indirectly financing coal plants in Indonesia through a $600 million loan despite promises to no longer fund projects tied to the fossil fuel, according to a new report."Publicly funded institutions like the Asian Development Bank must include robust coal exclusions in contracts... in order to end coal finance for good," said Daniel Willis, finance campaigner at NGO Recourse.
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Reuters
Palestinian authorities seek probe into mass graves at Gaza hospitals
A Palestinian civil defence team on Thursday called on the United Nations to investigate what it said were war crimes at a Gaza hospital, saying nearly 400 bodies were recovered from mass graves after Israeli soldiers departed the complex. "There are cases of field execution of some patients while undergoing surgeries and wearing surgical gowns at the Nasser Medical Complex," the civil defence forces said at a press conference, without presenting any evidence. Palestinian authorities have this week reported finding hundreds of bodies in mass graves at Nasser hospital, the main medical facility in central Gaza, after Israeli troops pulled out of the city of Khan Younis.
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Reuters
IBM falls as enterprise-spending constraints choke consulting demand
Weakness in smaller discretionary projects affected the consulting segment, but analysts at J.P.Morgan said the backlog could help reaccelerate the business through 2024. "Although software acceleration is encouraging, this was offset by more significant-than-expected deterioration of Consulting, along with incremental FX headwinds expected for the rest of the year," analysts at J.P.Morgan said. IBM's software business grew 5.5% in the quarter and the company announced a $6.4 billion deal to buy cloud software company HashiCorp, aiming to make the most of an AI-led boom in demand for the data storage capabilities of the cloud.
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Associated Press
Hungary's Orbán urges European conservatives, and Trump, toward election victories at CPAC event
Hungary's nationalist prime minister, addressing a conservative conference in Budapest on Thursday, said upcoming European and U.S. elections were a chance for right-wing forces to defeat the “progressive world spirit,” and encouraged former U.S. President Donald Trump to defend “his own truth” in his ongoing criminal trial. Viktor Orbán, a right-wing populist and the European Union's longest-serving leader, told supporters at the Conservative Political Action Conference Hungary that conservatives across the West, including himself and Trump, are under attack by a hegemonic liberal order.
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Reuters
India dismisses US human rights report as 'deeply biased'
NEW DELHI (Reuters) -New Delhi said on Thursday it does not attach any value to a U.S. State Department report critical of human rights in India, and called it deeply biased. The annual human rights assessment released earlier this week found "significant" abuses in India's northeastern Manipur state last year and attacks on minorities, journalists and dissenting voices in the rest of the country. Asked about it, Indian foreign ministry spokesperson Randhir Jasiwal told journalists on Thursday that the report "as per our understanding, is deeply biased and reflects a very poor understanding of India."
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The New York Times
In Immunity Case, Trump Can Lose in Ways That Amount to a Win
WASHINGTON — Most legal experts say that former President Donald Trump will face deep skepticism at the Supreme Court on Thursday, when the justices will hear arguments on his claim that he is absolutely immune from prosecution on charges of plotting to subvert the 2020 election. Trump would prefer to win, of course. But there are, from his perspective, at least two attractive ways to lose. One involves the timing of the court’s decision, which has received substantial attention given the relati
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