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New York (AFP) – Facebook owner Meta will lay off more than 11,000 of its staff in “the most difficult changes we’ve made in Meta’s history,” boss Mark Zuckerberg said on Wednesday. He said the cuts represented 13 percent of the social media titan’s wo…

San Francisco (AFP) – Twitter on Wednesday unveiled — and then almost immediately scrapped — a new gray “official” label for some high-profile accounts as Elon Musk struggles to revamp the highly influential platform following his $44 billion buyout….

Pittsburgh (AFP) – President Joe Biden’s Democrats picked up a key US Senate seat in swing state Pennsylvania, boosting their chances of retaining their razor-thin majority in the upper chamber of Congress. Media projections early Wednesday showed John…

New York (AFP) – From the first openly lesbian governor to the first Generation Z member-elect of Congress, early results in the US midterms heralded a good night for diversity. – ‘Proud’ – In Massachusetts, voters elected Democrat Maura Healey as Amer…

Washington (AFP) – Republicans were inching towards a slim majority in the US House of Representatives on Wednesday but the Senate may have eluded their grasp in midterm elections as Democrats fended off a “red wave.” President Joe Biden’s Democrats ou…

New York (AFP) – Donald Trump’s influence loomed large as Americans voted Tuesday in midterm elections that could kickstart any bid to return to the White House in 2024 — or, if his loyalists perform badly, derail it entirely. While the former preside…

New York (AFP) – Few expected New York to figure among the political battlegrounds in play in the United States ahead of Tuesday’s crucial vote, but Democrats are scrambling as a Trump-backer gains substantial ground statewide and pivotal races narrow….

Washington (AFP) – More than 42 million Americans have cast early ballots ahead of Tuesday’s midterm elections, surpassing the numbers from 2018, the US Elections Project said Monday. Americans will go to the polls on Tuesday to elect 435 members of th…

Sharm el Sheikh (Egypt) (AFP) – The UN’s chief warned Monday that nations must cooperate or face “collective suicide” in the fight against climate change, at a summit where developing countries reeling from global warming demanded more action from rich…

Beijing (AFP) – Apple warned customers would face longer wait times for iPhones with the holiday season approaching, after Covid restrictions in central China “temporarily impacted” production at the world’s largest factory producing the smartphone. Fo…