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Donald Trump visited the Rio Grande valley on Wednesday, at the invitation of Texas Governor Greg Abbott, touring the border wall he began building while in office – but which was halted by President Joe Biden immediately upon inauguration.  After Trump gave a speech at one point, Acosta shouted a …

The official death count rose to 16 on Wednesday morning after four more bodies were pulled from the rubble of the building, which collapsed during the middle of the night in Surfside last Thursday. Although no survivors have been found by emergency digging teams in the rubble for nearly a …

A 1-0 defeat to Belgium meant that holders Portugal crashed out of Euro 2020 at the last 16 stage in Seville. Save for a free-kick that tested Thibaut Courtois in the first half and a decent attempt at an assist that Diogo Jota squandered in the second, the 36-year-old Ronaldo …

Thanks to a 3-2 win in overtime over the Las Vegas Golden Knights, the Canadiens – known as the Habs – clinched the Western Conference Championship 4-2 in Game Six and will now play their first Stanley Cup final series in 28 years. Celebrations spread from the Bell Center to …

A “stable and predictable relationship with Russia” is on the diplomat’s agenda upon his return, Sullivan announced, as quoted by a spokesperson of the US Embassy in Moscow. The decision has been made following the meeting between President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart Joe Biden in Geneva, Switzerland this …

“If you said to us on day one, at the beginning of Covid, that we would be capable of what we have done, no one would believe it,” Cuomo said, adding that the state now boasts the country’s “lowest Covid positivity rate.”  Hyping the state’s broad obedience to his executive …

“The decision to fine Google is particularly significant as it is the first throughout the world to tackle complex algorithmic auction processes used for online display-advertising,” Isabelle de Silva, who heads France’s Autorite de la concurrence, said in a statement on Monday.  The French Competition Authority deemed that Google had …

When it initiated the suspension in January, Facebook declared Trump’s tweets, posted before his supporters rioted at the US Capitol, “a severe violation of our rules.” The term of the suspension was announced by Facebook on Friday. Earlier, the company’s oversight board – a body convened by Facebook to weigh …

Shaw passed away on Friday, with her family saying she “developed severe headaches a week after receiving her AstraZeneca vaccine and fell seriously ill a few days later”. According to her family’s statement, Shaw “was treated by the RVI’s [Royal Victoria Infirmary] intensive care team for blood clots and bleeding …

Lord Hall, who was the BBC’s director of news and current affairs when journalist Martin Bashir used fake documents to secure an interview with Princess Diana, apologised for his involvement on Saturday and said that staying at his National Gallery job in the wake of the controversy “would be a …