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Trump justice department fires officials who worked for prosecutor Jack Smith | Trump administration newsthirst.

The justice department is firing more than a dozen officials who worked on special counsel Jack Smith’s cases against Donald Trump on charges of trying to overturn his 2020 election defeat and mishandling of classified documents, according to reports on Monday. The officials were fired after the acting attorney general, James McHenry, said they could…

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Japan’s inflation rate climbs to a 2-year high of 4% in January, supporting rate hike calls from BOJ members newsthirst.

A customer visits a store at Togoshi Ginza shopping street in Tokyo on January 23, 2025.  Philip Fong | Afp | Getty Images Japan’s inflation in January climbed 4% year on year, hitting its highest level since January 2023, further strengthening the case for rate hikes by the country’s central bank. The core inflation rate…

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Dark web dealer who stole unreleased Coldplay music gets suspended sentence | Music newsthirst.

A dark web dealer who stole unreleased music from the likes of Coldplay, Shawn Mendes and Bebe Rexha has been given a suspended 21-month jail sentence. Skylar Dalziel, 22, made tens of thousands of pounds after accessing the copyrighted tracks by illegally accessing cloud storage accounts linked to the artists. Dalziel was sentenced at Luton…

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Crypto CEO linked to Russia accused of laundering $500 million newsthirst.

Signage is seen at the United States Department of Justice headquarters in Washington, D.C., August 29, 2020. Andrew Kelly | Reuters Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn have charged the founder of a U.S.-based cryptocurrency payments firm with operating what they allege was a sophisticated international money laundering scheme that moved over half a billion dollars on…

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AI video platform Synthesia doubles valuation to $2.1 billion newsthirst.

Synthesia is a platform that lets users create AI-generated clips with human avatars that can speak in multiple languages. Synthesia LONDON — Synthesia, a video platform that uses artificial intelligence to generate clips featuring multilingual human avatars, has raised $180 million in an investment round valuing the startup at $2.1 billion. That’s more than than double…

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