First Thing: Trump says he is firing Fed governor Lisa Cook in escalating attack on bank’s independence | US news

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Donald Trump said that the Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook had fired, claiming that he had made a mortgage fraud while intensifying the attack on the Independence of the Central Bank.

Trump wrote to Cook on Monday, and said that one of his allies had taken him out of his position as he took a mortgage on a second property, which he misled as his primary residence.

Cook said, “There is no reason in accordance with the law and [Trump] He has no authority.

Republican Committee Subpoenas Documents from Jeffrey Epstein Estate

According to a statement, he chose the documents of Jeffrey Epstein’s property of a congress committee -led congress committee.

The court signed by James Comer, the President of the Republican Congress of the Parliamentary Surveillance Committee, demands that Epstein be included in the documents including a message book for the 50th birthday, agreements signed with prosecutors, address book, any explanation agreement and financial transactions and holdings.

At the beginning of this month, a court subpoena to the Ministry of Justice for records about the Epstein case – the democrats in the committee, but most of the information were open to the public.

• What else is the committee looking for? Bill and Hillary Clinton, former FBI Director James Comey and former lawyers General Loreretta Lynch, Eric Holder, Merrick Garland, William Barr and Jeff Sessions, such as accumulation of accumulation of courts.

Trump threatens tariffs in countries that ‘discriminating’ against US technology

Donald Trump threatened taxes and regulations to punish countries targeting US major technology companies.

“Digital taxes, legislation, rules or regulations are all designed to implement tariffs and export restrictions and implement export restrictions to countries with these measures,“ He also claimed that such arrangements have given a “complete transition to Chinese technology companies.

The announcement will put pressure on the UK and the EU, which are both measures to restrict the power of US technology companies, and will soon provide trade agreements with the USA.

• What is the current situation? Britain offered a decrease in the highest rate of digital service tax to appease Trump to Big Tech, and Canada scrapped its tax to alleviate trade negotiations. However, the EU did not decide to change any digital arrangement.

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Statistics of the Day: There are more than 1 million mines scattered in Ukraine, he says BM Expert

Ukraine has become one of the heaviest mines in the world. UN mining expert Paul Heslop threw the country in the trash of more than 1 million land care because the Russian forces were withdrawn while they were withdrawing them. About a quarter of the country – a larger area than England – already contaminated. Even after the war is over, the explosives will continue to pose a deadly threat to civilians.

Don’t miss this: Can AIS suffer?

Can AIS revive or come? Until recently, these questions were completely limited to the type of science fiction-but the establishment of the United Foundation of the AI ​​(UFAIR), which describes itself as the first AI-Leading Rights Defending Agency, is trying to change it. He continues to be fringe in an undeniable way, and Mustafa Suleyman, the general manager of Microsoft’s AI branch, sharply pushed back to his argument and emphasizes that they are conscious about the anxious phenomenon of the AI ​​psychosis that the society has already seen and that there is a warning.

Climate Control: Fema personnel stops Trump’s risk of exposing us to another wrong disaster

Donald Trump’s attacks on the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) attacks, encouraging more than 2,000 agency employees, faced the risk of opening the United States for a wrong disaster, such as Hurricane Katrina. Twenty years after the storm that killed 1,833 people, the staff underlined: “Hurricane Katrina was not only a natural disaster, but also human -making.”

Last thing: in the weird world of the lost suitcase auctions

Can you bid a stranger’s suitcase without a clue about what is inside? Airlines cannot re -join about 8% of the wrong bags with their owners, so they sell lost items and allow people in the UK to join the “suitcase gambling .. Guardian’s Emma Russell opens the strange excitement of taking other people’s baggage home.

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