donald trump He will appear Tuesday before a court of Miami accused of having kept confidential documents after leaving the White Housebut continues to have the support of his followers for the 2024 presidential elections. The billionaire, who aims to return to power in 2024, faces 37 charges, including “illegal withholding of information related to […]
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JPMorgan to pay $290 million to victims of Jeffrey Epstein
the american bank JPMorgan Chase will pay $290 million to alleged victims of the late financier Jeffrey Epsteinaccused of sexual exploitation of minors, after an agreement announced on Monday that avoids him a high-impact media trial. The sum, initially reported by the Wall Street Journal, was confirmed to AFP by one of the victims’ lawyers, […]
US lawyers say chatbot tricked them with fictitious cases
Two lawyers expressed their repentance before an irate judge of a federal court in Manhattan and they blamed on Thursday ChatGPT for misleading them into including a fictitious legal inquiry in a document filed with the court. Lawyers Steven A. Schwartz and Peter LoDuca could be penalized for a document they included in a lawsuit […]
Impeachment of Trump: What is there to know about the case and what’s next?
The imputation to donald trump for 37 counts of mishandling documents secrets in his Florida mansion represents the most serious legal risk yet for him, less than three months after he was indicted in NY of 34 felony counts of falsifying accounting records. Here’s a look at the charges, the special counsel’s investigation, and how […]
A report confirms the increase in the world’s nuclear arsenal
The number of nuclear weapons in operational status increased last year, at the same time that the powers promote their expansion and modernization programs of their arsenals, the Stockholm International Institute for Peace Studies warned on Monday. (SIPRI). Of the total estimated 12,512 nuclear warheads possessed by the nine atomic powers (United States, Russia, United […]
Transformers beats the “Spider-Verse” and is placed at the top of the US box office.
“Transformers: Rise of the Beasts” was the highest-grossing film in the United States this weekend, beating out “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse,” according to studio figures released Sunday. “Transformers,” the seventh installment in the series, earned $60.5 million versus $55.4 million for “Spider-Verse,” which was in its second weekend. Paramount Pictures showed “Rise of the Beasts” […]
In the US, workers no longer want offices and prefer teleworking
Go to and from the office five times a week? “It’s just not what I want for my life,” says Claire, a 30-something consultant who, like millions of employees in the United States, prefers the telecommuting since the covid-19 pandemic completely changed the work scenario. The pandemic has forced Americans to work at home, and […]
Market expects Fed to pause rate hikes
A pause in monetary tightening? The Monetary Committee of the Federal Reserve meets this week and could, for the first time since March 2022, maintain its benchmark interest rate to avert the risk of a recession, despite inflation that remains strong. “I think we will see a pause next week,” Lydia Boussour, an economist at […]
Bullard: Disinflation prospects ‘good’ but not guaranteed
The president of the Bank of Federal Reserve of St. Louis, James Bullard, one of the first officials of the central bank of USA who was in favor of rapidly raising interest rates to curb rising inflation, expressed moderate optimism on Friday regarding the results of the hikes. “Monetary policy is now at the lower […]
They discover what may be the “beginning of the end” of the “lethal tan” of palm trees
A group of scientists of the University of Florida (UF) has identified a chemical compound present in the palms affected by the call “lethal tan” which may be key to eradicating a disease that affects more than 20 species of those trees in southern USA and Caribbean. Deadly blight (LB), a bacterial disease, is responsible […]