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A Democratic US senator on Thursday said the Biden administration has been working to try to limit the influence far-right lawmakers Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben Gvir will have in the expected next Israeli government. While the White House has sought to be more subtle and tight-lipped about its discomfort…

San Francisco police can now use potentially lethal robots, DoorDash lays off 1250 employees and Missouri Senator accuses Apple of supporting China’s speech suppression policies. That’s all the tech news that’s trending right now, welcome to Hashtag Trending. It’s Thursday December 1st and I’m your host, Samira Balsara.  The San…

Most fans know Reinier “The Dutch Knight” de Ridder as one of the best mixed martial artists in ONE Championship. But many aren’t aware that the two-division king, who puts his light heavyweight crown on the line against Anatoly Malykhin this Friday, December 2, is a good fortune teller too. Well,…

Chief executives of the two largest U.S. supermarket chains, Kroger and Albertsons, stood before members of the Senate Subcommittee on Competition Policy, Antitrust and Consumer Rights on Tuesday to defend a proposed $20 billion merger.  Rodney McMullen, chairman and CEO of The Kroger Co., told committee members, chaired by Sen. Amy Klobuchar,…

Six exchanges have been asked to provide information pertaining to consumer relief in the event of the company’s insolvency. Senator Wyden has also sought answers on the safeguards put in place in order to avoid internal conflict of interest. Ron Wyden, the United States Senator from Oregon, has written to…

BUCHAREST (AP) — Apart from Ukraine, Moldova has been hit hardest by Russia’s invasion of its neighbor, the Moldovan foreign minister said Wednesday, as NATO offered fresh support to three countries shaken by the effects of Moscow’s 10-month-old war. Nicu Popescu told The Associated Press in an interview in Romania’s…

Several Republican lawmakers and prominent Jewish conservatives have condemned Donald Trump for meeting with white supremacist and antisemite Nick Fuentes, in a rare distancing from the ex-president. Trump’s former vice-president Mike Pence, the former New Jersey governor Chris Christie, and several Republican senators were critical, to varying degrees, of Trump,…

Vladimir Putin must be, to say the least, disappointed — and not merely because, nine months on, Russia emains mired in a war against Ukraine that he had expected to win rapidly. Contrary to his hopes, divergent national interests haven’t split the 30-country transatlantic alliance that has been supporting Kyiv.…

Pskov Governor Mikhail Vedernikov said that NATO drones tried to cross the region's border before Russian President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine began on February 24. Pskov is a city in western Russia and shares a border with NATO members Latvia and Estonia. "We have never spoken extensively about this,…

A tumultuous, trying week is over, with the Jets focused (finally) on their football game against the Bears. But a week that saw them bench a player they believed was their franchise starter left plenty to process. Zach Wilson, the No. 2 overall pick just last year, will be inactive…