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02/03/2025February 3, 2025
FBI employees ordered to answer January 6 questionnaire
FBI employees were ordered to answer a detailed list of questions about any work they may have done .
It comes two days after Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove fired eight senior FBI officials.
Bove also wrote a memo demanding that the FBI send him a list of every employee who worked on criminal cases pertaining to the attack on the Capitol.
As one of his first official acts following his inauguration, who had been criminally charged over their involvement in storming the Capitol.
Those pardoned were mostly Trump supporters who believed Trump’s false claim that the 2020 election, in which he lost to former President Joe Biden, was fraudulent.
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Skip next section Trump vows to cut funding to South Africa pending ‘investigation’
02/03/2025February 3, 2025
Trump vows to cut funding to South Africa pending ‘investigation’
US President said he would end funding to due to alleged mistreatment of “certain classes of people.”
“South Africa is confiscating land, and treating certain classes of people VERY BADLY,” Trump said in a post on his Truth Social platform.
“The United States won’t stand for it, we will act. Also, I will be cutting off all future funding to South Africa until a full investigation of this situation has been completed!” he said.
Trump did not provide evidence for the assertion or specify which group of people was being affected by the alleged mistreatment.
The United States sent nearly $440 million (€430 million) in assistance to South Africa in 2023, according to US government data.Last month.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa signed a bill that stipulated that the government could expropriate property without compensation under certain circumstances.
In 2018, during Trump’s first term, he accused South Africa of “seizing land from white farmers” and spoke of “large scale killing of farmers” amid Pretoria’s plans to enact land reform
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Skip next section Trump says will hold tariff talks with Mexico, Canada
02/03/2025February 3, 2025
Trump says will hold tariff talks with Mexico, Canada
US President Donald Trump said that he was planning on holding talks with leaders of and on Monday.
He also told reporters that he would slap Europe with tariffs “very soon.”
Trump had promising to pass a “Trump reciprocal trade act” targeting the bloc.
Trump’s Sunday statement comes after he imposed 25% tariffs on its two closest neighbors.
The president’s order also imposed a .
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum and Canadian Prime Minister .
sdi/kb (AFP, AP, dpa, Reuters)
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