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The United States has imposed sanctions on two Chinese companies it accuses of supplying equipment and components to Cuba’s military, as Washington intensifies pressure on Havana’s foreign suppliers and expands its authority to target businesses operating on the island. The US State Department said on Thursday that China National Electronic Import and Export Company, or CEIEC, and Beijing H&C Technologies had worked with Cuban arms procurement company Sociedad Mercantil Duna to supply...

There are 548 people on death row in California. Newsom’s decision announced Thursday comes as he prepares to leave office after eight years.

Another wipeout for stocks tied to the buildout of AI data centres is overwhelming Wall Street and more than erasing all its gains from the day before, which was its best in three months.

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Raman is looking to boost housing production, add bike lanes and replace the current police chief. She's also planning to be hands-on manager, using data to assess the city's effectiveness.

Bass conceded her loss in a phone call to Raman on Thursday. 'While this is not the outcome we hoped for, the people of Los Angeles have spoken,' Bass said.

David Jones suppliers are scrambling to recover their stock after the retailer entered voluntary administration.

Pauline Hanson will appeal a racial discrimination ruling in the High Court.

Prime Minister Mark Carney said his priority remains on putting Canadians first as trade talks resume with the United States.

Deportations of Iranians back to their home country are historically rare, owing to the lack of diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Iran and the possibility of persecution.

Chinese scientists have chilled atoms aboard the Tiangong space station to the lowest temperature ever measured, smashing US and German records and paving the way for ultra-precise space sensors that could find hidden minerals, track climate change and test Einstein’s theory of gravity. Researchers from Peking University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences brought thousands of rubidium atoms, packed into a cloud smaller than a grain of sand, to less than 10 trillionths of a degree above absolute...