WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has provided former President Donald Trump's federal tax records for the last six years to the US House of Representatives.
TikTok is a social media video-sharing app that has more than 89 million users in the United States. It has been reported that TikTok and its parent company ByteDance employ more than 300 former members of Chinese state media.
Despite a lack of firm proof, theoretical physicists have posited that black holes may deposit matter it’s sucked up into a different place via a “wormhole,” which might even enable time travel. However, a wormhole has never been observed before.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The European Union has reportedly threatened to ban Twitter on the bloc’s territory if the social network’s new owner, billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, does not abide by new strict content moderation rules.
There have been thousands of predictions for the end of the world. The latest forecast comes from Pastor Tom Hughes, who believes it will come within our lifetimes, though he does not give an exact date.
At a summit in Bucharest, Romania, earlier this week, the NATO allies recommitted themselves to supporting Ukraine in its struggle against Russia, although not to supplying Kiev with more advanced weapons systems, such as the Patriot air defense missile battery.
US President Joe Biden is preparing to set aside a vast area of southern Nevada as protected federal land, which includes Spirit Mountain, or Avi Kwa’ Ame in the language of the indigenous Mojave people, for whom the mountain is sacred.
House Democrats on Wednesday voted to make Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) their leader in the US House of Representatives, making him the first Black person to hold the position. The decision comes after Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), the first woman to hold the role, stepped back from it after 20 years.
Following the launch of Russia's military operation in Ukraine on February 24, the United States and its NATO allies moved to provide significant military and financial assistance to Kiev while at the same time trying hard to avoid a direct confrontation with Moscow.
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – US billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk promised on Wednesday to make Twitter more effective, transparent, and "even-handed" after the social network allegedly let its users down in terms of trust and safety.
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The US House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a joint resolution to try to avert a nationwide rail strike that could start next month, with the Senate slated to consider the matter soon.
The Disney corporation has distanced itself from the conservative values of its founder Walt Disney in recent years, drawing criticism for the 'woke' themes in its series of Star Wars sequels and spin-offs. It has opposed legislation in Florida, home to the Disney World theme park, to ban teachers from discussing their sexuality with students.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The Australian Department of Health has proposed a ban on all flavored cigarettes, as well as requiring tobacco manufacturers to make cigarettes in "ugly" and "unattractive" colors, ABC reported.
After a heated debate, San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted to allow its potentially lethal, remote-controlled robots to use deadly force in extreme circumstances to save or prevent further loss of innocent lives on November 29.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Wednesday, speaking in a synagogue, that his family roots "traced back to a Rabbi in Moscow," according to a Jewish newspaper in Britain.
French President Emmanuel Macron has arrived in Washington to discuss the unfolding trade row between the US and the EU over Joe Biden's protectionist Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). It's Macron's first visit to the US after the submarine deal debacle that sidelined Paris and cost the French a lucrative defense contract.
As Russia calls for an investigation into US-sponsored biological laboratories near its borders in Ukraine, former Indonesian officials tell Sputnik how Jakarta managed to shut down an US biolab.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The successor to McDonald's in Russia, Vkusno - i tochka, initiated the country's first project to process deep-frying oil into biofuel, already used for heating in Moscow electric buses during tests, Senior Director for Sustainable Development of the company Irina Korshunova told Sputnik on Wednesday.
Russia, Ukraine, and Turkey signed an UN-brokered agreement in July to secure a humanitarian corridor through the Black Sea to allow food and fertilizer exports. However, Moscow repeatedly denounces that sanctions continue to impede its grain and fertilizer supplies to the most vulnerable nations.
