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Greetings from Tyler, By next week’s Update, Trump will be President.  He’s already introduced subjects we’d given up on, and is putting everybody on notice.  The Panama Canal?  They’re probably running around like chickens with their heads cut off.  He’s … Read More

Jan. 17 (UPI) — The Supreme Court on Friday voted unanimously to leave in place a law that would ban TikTok from U.S. app stores unless it s Chinese parent company divests from the platform and sells it to an … Read More

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Iranian counterpart, Masoud Pezeshkian, signed a broad cooperation pact Friday as their countries deepened their partnership in the face of stinging Western sanctions. Russian and Iranian officials say the “comprehensive strategic … Read More

SEOUL, Jan 17 (Reuters) – As 3,000 riot police swarmed his hillside villa on Wednesday, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol huddled with party loyalists, telling them that people were increasingly realising the country’s legal system had been hijacked by … Read More

Scientists knew it causes cancer in rats since the 1980s. The Food and Drug Administration is banning the use of Red No. 3, the petroleum-based dye that gives many popular foods and drinks their recognizable, vibrant hues. Although some companies already began … Read More

STILFONTEIN, South Africa, Jan 15 (Reuters) – At least 78 dead bodies have been pulled from an illegal gold mine in South Africa where police cut off food and water supplies for months, in what trade unions called a “horrific” … Read More

After months of deadlock and more than 15 months of war, Israel and the militant group Hamas reached a fresh Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal, President Joe Biden said on Wednesday. The deal includes a six-week initial ceasefire phase … Read More

North Korean troops deployed to Russia to fight alongside Vladimir Putin‘s forces in the war against Ukraine are taking their own lives to avoid capture, officials have said. Newsweek contacted the Kremlin, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry and the North Korean … Read More

The president notified Congress of its intent to lift the U.S. designation of Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism on Tuesday Joe Biden has removed Cuba from a list of nations classified as supporting international terrorism, reversing a decision … Read More

NATO’s Secretary General Mark Rutte pledged to send drones, frigates and aircraft to the region as he highlighted a concerted campaign of ‘cyber-attacks, assassination attempts and sabotage.’ NATO will increase its military presence and technological innovation in the Baltic Sea … Read More

TikTok users in the US are migrating to a Chinese app called RedNote with the threat of a ban just days away. The move by users who call themselves “TikTok refugees” has made RedNote the most downloaded app on Apple’s … Read More

(Bloomberg) — Mali’s military junta started executing an interim order to seize gold at a mine run by Barrick Gold Corp., escalating a dispute over the West African government’s share of revenues from the project. The authorities started executing the … Read More

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is proposing a new framework for the exporting of the advanced computer chips used to develop artificial intelligence, an attempt to balance national security concerns about the technology with the economic interests of producers … Read More

KYIV, Jan 13 (Reuters) – Ukraine has stopped production at its coking coal mine in Pokrovsk, which feeds the country’s steel industry, because of the proximity of advancing Russian forces, two industry sources told Reuters on Monday. The facility in … Read More

Greetings from Tyler, Things are already happening fast and it’s not even January 20th yet.  The last of Trump’s “criminal” cases was closed today, but not without giving the media something to crow about.  The charges stand even though Trump … Read More