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Former US President Donald Trump faces more than 30 counts of business fraud in an indictment filed by a Manhattan grand jury investigating silent payments to a porn star, CNN reported yesterday, citing sources and giving no further details.more

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has revealed that Donald Trump's first wife was the subject of a counterintelligence investigation into her ties to communist Czechoslovakia, where she was born. A small portion of the hitherto secret files on Ivana Trump have been released. The rest will see the light of day in April.more

Hundreds of businessmen, investors and artificial intelligence experts, including Elon Musk among others, have called in a joint letter for at least a six-month pause in the development of AI systems more capable than the GPT-4 published in March. The signatories warn of the unpredictable consequences of the race to create ever more powerful models.more

Police in Nashville reported that yesterday's attack by an armed woman on a Presbyterian school killed three 9-year-old students and three adults aged about 60. One of them was the school principal. The police shot the killer.more

Twenty-six people were killed in the US states of Mississippi and Alabama as a result of a powerful storm that triggered a devastating tornado on Friday evening. Hundreds of homes were razed to the ground, and the swath of destruction is 274 kilometers long.more

The results of the so-called The number of intelligence tests among Americans has been steadily increasing since 1932, but in the years 2006-2018 this trend was reversed in almost all cognitive categories.more

Information about the problems of banks in the United States made customers lose confidence in the Swiss Credit Suisse. However, the risk of a crisis of the banking system in Europe is unlikely, according to the analysts of the Polish Economic Institute.more

The coming weeks will be critical for the course of the war; we expect President Putin to try to launch another offensive, perhaps on multiple fronts simultaneously, US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby announced in an interview with CNN.more

US President Joe Biden has signed into law a bill that requires declassification of information related to the origin of the coronavirus, Reuters reported. The White House said it will continue to review all classified information regarding the origin of the disease, with potential ties to the Wuhan Institute of Virology listed.more

Prezydent USA Joe Biden i premier Irlandii Leo Varadkar rozmawiali w Białym Domu m.in. o pomoc Ukrainy oraz porozumieniu między UE i Wielką Brytanią w sprawie pomocy północnej Północnej po Brexicie - przekazanie Białego Domu. Varadkar, w ten sposób, charakterystyczny dla irlandzkich szefów rządów w dzień św. Patryka.more

Donald Trump asserted today on his Truth Social network that he will be "arrested" on Tuesday and called for demonstrations ahead of a possible indictment of him for paying a porn star to keep quiet about their sexual liaisons.more

President Joe Biden will host Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar at the White House Friday, resuming a longstanding St. Patrick’s Day tradition.more

US authorities have so far shown no evidence that the Chinese-owned TikTok platform poses a threat to national security, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said. He accused Washington of "unwarranted attacks" on the app.more

Facebook-parent Meta Platforms said on Tuesday it would cut 10,000 jobs this year, making it the first Big Tech company to announce a second round of mass layoffs as the industry braces for a deep economic downturn.more

The United States, Great Britain and Australia are ignoring the concerns of the international community and are following a "dangerous path," said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin, commenting on the submarine cooperation agreement announced by these countries.more

US President Joe Biden announced that he intends to pay a visit to Ireland and Northern Ireland. He was invited to Belfast by British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. The prime minister also stated that he had accepted Biden's invitation to visit Washington in June.more

America has gone from having record savings to record debt in just two years. It is a country of credit cards, says NPR public radio.more

President Joe Biden said Sunday that at his direction US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and his top economic adviser Lael Brainard worked with financial regulators to ensure households and businesses affected by the Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank failures could access their deposits, and he promised to hold those responsible accountable.more

The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, has reportedly been snubbed by the Oscars for the second year in a row.more

Polish journalist Bianka Zalewska has won the Women of Courage Award for her work in Ukraine. She and ten other recipients had beed presented with the honour at the White House on International Women’s Day by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and First Lady Jill Biden. more

The White House backed legislation introduced on Tuesday by a dozen senators to give the administration new powers to ban Chinese-owned video app TikTok and other foreign-based technologies if they pose national security threats.more

At least 12 people have died across the U.S. in recent days from a mix of extreme weather events, including tornadoes, torrential rains and flooding across southern states, and historic snowfall on the West Coast. more

A biopsy confirmed that the skin lesion removed from Joe Biden's chest is a common form of skin cancer and all the cancerous tissue was successfully removed, White House physician Kevin O'Connor announced yesterday.more

The Ministry of Justice of the US issued an opinion that former President Donald Trump may be sued by congressmen and police officers injured during the assault on the Capitol; It is not protected by the privilege of executive power, because "calling for violence does not belong to the official duties of the president."more

Polish community education and national identity were the topics of the meeting of First Lady Agata Kornhauser-Duda with representatives of the Polish community in Washington. The education of the Polish diaspora stands for parents, it is your merit that you want your children to learn the Polish language, stressed the wife of the Polish president.more