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Friday, July 24th, 2020
(NNP) After a failed attempt to remove international students whose institutions have gone fully online for the fall, the United States has announced that it will bar international students still in their home countries who seek to attend U.S. institutions this fall if those institutions offer only online course. It also indicated that those already […]
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Friday, July 24th, 2020
(NNP) A Florida man has been arrested by U.S. police in the city of Palm Beach for pulling a gun and pointing it to the face of another man who asked him to wear a mask in a Wal-Mart retail store. The two had an altercation when the gun-pulling man was told to wear mask […]
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Friday, July 24th, 2020
(NNP) The Chinese government on Friday ordered the U.S. to close its Chengdu Consulate in retaliation for the U.S. closure of the Chinese Consulate in Houston. The U.S. accused consulate officials of stealing intellectual property and spying on Americans, a claim vehemently denied by the Chinese government which accused the U.S. of harassing its citizens […]
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Friday, July 24th, 2020
A Nigerian citizen in U.S. Damilola Bamidele Isaac Samuel, has been sentenced to federal prison for ATM fraud. Samuel, 22, was convicted in Shreveport, Louisiana for using fraudulent ATM bank cards to steal more than $260,000 from dozens of bank customers. According to federal prosecutors, Chief U.S. District Judge S. Maurice Hicks Jr. ordered Samuel […]
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Wednesday, July 22nd, 2020
(NNP) In a move that would escalate tensions between the two largest economies, the U.S. on Wednesday asked China to close its consulate in Houston, Texas, saying it has been used for spying on the United States and stealing intellectual property. A spokeswoman for the United States Department of State, Morgan Ortagus, stated that the […]
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Tuesday, July 21st, 2020
-Washington (CNN) – Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden said Monday he was considering four Black women to be his running mate, and has been receiving extensive vetting briefings about each potential candidate. “I am not committed to naming any (of the potential candidates), but the people I’ve named, and among them there are four Black […]
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Sunday, July 19th, 2020
By Taiwo Okanlawon The Ooni of Ife, Ooni Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi Ojaja II in collaboration with others have paid for a charter flight to bring back stranded Nigerians in the United States of America and Canada. According to the monarch, the pandemic is a collective fight that requires support both at home and abroad. […]
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Sunday, July 19th, 2020
Former Gambian President Yahya Jammeh used bribery proceeds and stolen government funds to buy a mansion in a suburb of Washington, D.C., U.S. authorities allege in a lawsuit seeking to seize the property. The west African nation’s longtime dictator conspired to launder roughly $3.5 million in “corruption proceeds” through the purchase of a lavish […]
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Saturday, July 18th, 2020
(NNP) Famous U.S. Congressman who represented the 5th Congressional District in Georgia, John Lewis, has lost his battle against cancer. The long-term Congressman died on Friday at age 80. Until his death, Lewis was the longest-serving member of Congress from Georgia in his 17th term (34 years) and was the Dean of the Georgia Congressional […]
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Thursday, July 16th, 2020
(NNP) The tell-all book written by the niece of President Trump, Mary Trump, titled “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man,” has broken a previous record for the publisher, Simon and Schuster, set by the former White House National Security Advisor, John Bolton, by selling 950,000 copies on […]