Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui was sentenced to 30 years in U.S. prison after a fraud conviction tied to investment schemes prosecutors said raised more than $1 billion. A federal judge said the fraud cost more than 1,000 victims worldwide hundreds of millions of dollars.
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Cuba has approved 176 free-market measures that would expand private enterprise, foreign investment and private banking as the island faces severe shortages and U.S. pressure. President Miguel Diaz-Canel said urgent changes are needed but insisted the reforms aim to preserve socialism.
Ken Paxton, backed by Donald Trump, defeats Senator John Cornyn in Texas GOP Senate primary runoff. Paxton faces Democrat James Talarico in November amid shifting Latino voter dynamics and party realignments.
Bo French narrowly defeats incumbent Jim Wright in the Texas Railroad Commissioner Republican runoff, signaling a shift toward far-right politics in the state's key oil and gas regulatory body. French will face Democrat Jon Rosenthal in November.
The U.S. indicts former Cuban leader Raúl Castro and five others for the 1996 shootdown of two civilian planes that killed four Cuban Americans. The charges include conspiracy, murder, and destruction of aircraft amid ongoing U.S.-Cuba tensions.
A Senate Judiciary subcommittee on crime and terrorism convened to examine Meta's operations in China, featuring testimony from former employee Sarah Wynn-Williams, who criticized the company's collaboration with the Chinese government. Wynn-Williams alleged that Meta developed censorship tools for the Chinese Communist Party and allowed access to user data, including American users, by Chinese authorities, raising bipartisan concerns about data security and censorship. Senators expressed disapproval of Meta's practices, with plans to further investigate and potentially seek testimony from CEO Mark Zuckerberg, highlighting ongoing scrutiny of the company's ethical practices.
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Montana has become the first state in the US to ban the popular social media app TikTok, citing the Chinese Communist Party's use of the app to spy on Americans and collect their personal data. The bill was signed into law by Governor Greg Gianforte and will be enforced by the Montana Department of Justice. It is yet to be seen whether other states will follow suit.