US military kills five people in the Eastern Pacific
According to its own information, the US military killed five people during an operation in the Eastern Pacific. During the operation on Thursday, two boats were attacked, according to the responsible US Regional Command South (Southern Command). X with. A total of five men were killed in the actions, three on the first and two on the second ship. According to US information, they were drug smugglers. This cannot be verified independently.
TikTok is selling most of its US business to investors
Chinese TikTok owner ByteDance is selling 80 percent of its US business to US and international investors. A threatened ban by the US government should thus be averted. This is what the portal reports Axios
and the news agencies Reuters and Bloomberg, citing a memo from TikTok boss Shou Zi Chew to his staff. The main investors in the newly founded joint venture will be the software company Oracle, the investment company Silver Lake and MGX Abu Dhabi. The Oracle founder Larry Ellison is a long-time confidant of the US President Donald Trump.
Read more about the sale of TikTok to US investors here.
Donald Trump wants to relax rules on the use of cannabis
US President Donald Trump
drives the relaxation of federal regulations on the use of
cannabis further forward. He signed a decree on the basis of which the plant and the component cannabidiol (CBD) will be classified in a lower drug category in the future. The order directs the Justice Department to initiate the reclassification. “There are people who are begging me to do this, people who have been in great pain for decades,” Trump said. With this step, he is implementing an initiative by the previous government under former President Joe Biden. However, the proposal still requires approval from the anti-drug agency DEA.
Read more about easing the rules on cannabis use here.
Democrats release more photos from Epstein’s estate
Just a day before the deadline for releasing files by the US Department of Justice Democrats more photos from the estate of the deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein published. The 68 photos, published without further information, show, among other things, passports and identification documents of women from different countries. Also, Epstein is with
several celebrities including US scholar Noam Chomsky, director Woody Allen and Steve Bannon, former adviser to US President Donald Trump. Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates can be seen in the photos holding a young woman in his arms. The authenticity of the images could not initially be independently verified.
Read more about the publication of the photos from Epstein’s estate here.
Kennedy Center will also have Trump in its name
One of US President Donald Trump Appointed committee has voted for the renaming of the famous Kennedy Center voted in Washington, DC. The performing arts facility will now be called the Trump-Kennedy Center, as government spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt announced. Trump has repeatedly referred to the center for music, dance and theater as the Trump-Kennedy Center. As the New York Times
reported, the impact of the decision was not initially foreseeable because the name of the institution is determined by law and the naming is generally believed to be subject to Congress.
