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Fully functional, opulent: Solid gold toilet fetches $12.1m at NYC auction; artwork was titled ‘America’

(Image source: X/@Sothebys) A solid gold toilet — the satirical Maurizio Cattelan artwork once offered to US President Donald Trump — became the talk of the art world again on Tuesday when it sold for $12.1 million at Sotheby’s New York.The 18-karat, fully functional sculpture, titled America, weighs more than 220 pounds and opened bidding…

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How subsidiary of a blacklisted Chinese company ‘fooled’ America to get banned Nvidia chips

President and CEO of Nvidia Corporation Jensen Huang delivers a speech during the Computex 2025 exhibition in Taipei, Taiwan. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying, File) Inside a windowless building in Jakarta, Indonesia, approximately 2,300 of Nvidia’s cutting-edge Blackwell chips are being prepared for use by a Chinese AI company—despite President Donald Trump’s explicit opposition to selling such…

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As America tightens H1B curbs, are Indians losing out or finally gaining an edge?

When the H-1B visa curbs tightened, the American Dream didn’t just flicker; it shattered, shrank, and crumbled for thousands of Indian professionals. Yet, the louder noise reverberated through the corridors: Would the tremors in Washington rattle India’s dreams, its pipeline, or its economy? Fortunately, the early signals said otherwise.At a metro station outside the Indian…

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Make America Grate Again: Trump vs MTG in epic MAGA maelstrom after she tries to maim H1b visas

WASHINGTON: MAGA supremo Donald Trump on Friday unloaded on a one-time loyalist lawmaker after she broke ranks and mutinied on a range of issues, including moving a bill to nix the H1b visa program. In growing signs of major fissures and brewing rebellion in the MAGA movement, Republican Congresswoman and conspiracy theorist Marjorie Taylor Greene,…

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JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon warns: America is going the way of Europe, we better start…

File photo: JPMorgan Chase & Co chief executive Jamie Dimon (Picture credit: AP) JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon issued a stark warning that the United States is headed toward European-style economic decline unless it immediately reverses anti-business policies driving companies out of major cities. “In 30 years, if we don’t fix these things, we are…

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Verizon layoffs: Largest telecom company in America may cut thousands of jobs as new CEO Dan Schulman takes over; here’s what he said

America’s largest telecom company Verizon Communications is reportedly preparing to announce companywide job cuts as soon as next week. According to a report by Bloomberg, quoting people familiar with the matter, layoffs at Verizon mark one of the most significant steps yet in new Chief Executive Officer Dan Schulman’s turnaround strategy. While final decisions are…

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Make America Smart Again? Donald Trump channels Vivek Ramaswamy — and torpedoes MAGA’s anti-immigrant rhetoric | World News

Donald Trump fans had a huge meltdown on Boxing Day 2024 when Vivek Ramaswamy forgot to wear his faux-MAGA hat and accidentally spoke his mind where he argued the real problem is cultural — that American pop culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for decades and therefore doesn’t produce enough top-tier engineers and that’s why…

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America formally puts on hold ‘Blacklist rule’ that angered China ‘big time’

FILE – (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File) The Donald Trump administration has moved to delay a major export control rule targeting Chinese companies, marking one of its key concessions under the latest U.S.–China trade truce. According to a filing published this week in the Federal Register, the so-called “affiliates rule” — introduced in late September to…

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Rashmika Mandanna’s ‘The Girlfriend’ crosses half a million mark in North America |

In a delightful turn of events, Rashmika Mandanna’s film “The Girlfriend” has emerged as a surprise box office success in North America, grossing upwards of half a million dollars and confirming its financial success. Celebrated for its honest take on the trials of love, the movie is gaining traction despite a lukewarm reception in its…

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