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DeSantis starts presidential campaign in Iowa, steps up criticism of Trump

Ron DeSantis plans to kick off his presidential campaign in Iowa on Tuesday, the start of a busy week that will take him to 12 cities in three states as he tests his pitch as the most formidable Republican challenger to former President Donald Trump. The Florida governor's two-day trip to the leadoff caucus state starting at a suburban Des Moines megachurch and ending at a Cedar Rapids racetrack comes after a stumbling online announcement last week that formalised his long-anticipated entry into the growing Republican field. It will be followed by stops in early primary states New Hampshire and South Carolina. DeSantis' scheduled Tuesday evening stop at Eternity Church in Clive is a conspicuous nod to the evangelical Christians who wield outsize influence in Iowa's Republican presidential caucuses. His visit will give voters an opportunity to meet the new candidate just as he has been stepping up his criticism of Trump. He's got a big hill to climb and I think everybody would agr

Donald Trump asked Meta to restore his Facebook account, says report

Former US President Donald Trump is reportedly looking to regain control of his powerful social media accounts in order to make a comeback for the White House

Donald Trump says he'll ''fight like hell'' to hold on to presidency

Donald Trump has said he would "fight like hell" to hold on to the presidency and appealed to Republican lawmakers to reverse his election loss to Joe Biden

Will punish US firms producing, creating jobs in China, says Donald Trump

'If Biden wins, China will own America; if I win, I'll end manufacturing reliance'

Dismiss Big Tech's challenge to social media order, Trump admin asks court

The lawsuit was brought in June by the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT), a Washington-based tech group funded by Facebook Inc , Alphabet Inc's Google and Twitter Inc

How did it happen? America's unique failure to control coronavirus

How prioritising individualism, govt missteps hindered Covid-19 control in US

Jaishankar, Pompeo discuss Covid-19, 'destabilising actions' in Ladakh

India and the US have explored ways to boost cooperation in the resource-rich Indo-Pacific region where China has been trying to spread its influence

Why Tiktok is worth buying regardless of its pitfalls, unresolved questions

TikTok could try to lower the risk for an acquirer by striking multiyear exclusive deals with its most popular American creators, the way that platforms like YouTube and Twitch have done

New York prosecutors subpoenaed Deutsche Bank in Trump probe: Report

The prosecutors issued the subpoena last year, seeking financial records that the Republican president and his company had provided to the bank, the Times said, citing four unnamed people

'It was a bomb of some kind': Trump insists Lebanon explosion was an attack

The Lebanese government ordered the house arrest of several port officials in connection with the explosion, which killed at least 135 people and injured 5,000 more

Facebook, Twitter target Trump, team's posts for coronavirus misinformation

Facebook removed from Trump's official account the post of a video clip from a Fox News interview in which he said children are 'almost immune' from Covid-19

No indication of attack in Beirut: US defence officials contradict Trump

US defence department officials say they do not know what Trump was talking about, CNN reports

Trump says US military believes Beirut explosion was likely a bomb attack

The explosion flattened much of a port and damaged buildings across the capital, sending a giant mushroom cloud into the sky

Tiktok's ByteDance initiates talks with tech firm for US operations: Report

President Donald Trump only agreed to allow Microsoft Corp to negotiate the acquisition of popular short-video app TikTok if it could secure a deal in 45 days

Trump gives Tiktok's ByteDance 45 days to agree to Microsoft sale: Report

One idea under consideration is to give Microsoft and ByteDance a transition period to develop technology for TikTok that will be completely separate from ByteDance

TikTok owner ByteDance accuses Facebook of 'plagiarism and smears'

The Chinese firm also said it faced 'complex and unimaginable difficulties' as it worked to grow into global company

James Murdoch's resignation is result of News Corp's shift further to right

Since the sale of the bulk of Murdoch's 21st Century Fox assets to Disney (of which James was chief executive), there is no future role for him in the corporation

Republican senators back ByteDance's offer to divest Tiktok's US operations

Senator John Cornyn, a Texas Republican, said on Twitter that a divestment "and purchase by U.S. company is win-win."

Eastman Kodak top executive got Trump deal windfall on an 'understanding'

The decision to grant Continenza options was never formalized or made into a binding agreement, which is why it was not disclosed previously

US, China trade to suffer as closing of consulates raises diplomatic clash

They've also dimmed each other's ability to observe and to spy on critical regions of their countries