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It's even worse.
As well as the collection of social media information, the new document proposes the gathering of an applicant's telephone numbers and email addresses used over the last five and 10 years respectively, and more information about their family members.
I think he's claiming that it was carrying oil to Iran, defying sanctions.
He claims a lot of things but I don't believe much of any of it.
We could use some new members, but he doesn't sound like a good candidate for WTF.
He probably doesn't like sharing sourdough recipes, either.
Tourists from dozens of countries including the UK could be asked to provide a five-year social media history as a condition of entry to the United States, under a new proposal unveiled by American officials.
The new condition would affect people from dozens of countries who are eligible to visit the US for 90 days without a visa, as long as they have filled out an Electronic System for Travel Authorization (ESTA) form.
Since returning to the White House in January, President Donald Trump has moved to toughen US borders more generally - citing national security as a key reason.
Analysts say the new plan could pose an obstacle to potential visitors, or harm their digital rights.
Asked whether the proposal could lead to a steep drop-off in tourism to the US, Trump said he was not concerned.
"No. We're doing so well," Trump said on Wednesday.
"We just want people to come over here, and safe. We want safety. We want security. We want to make sure we're not letting the wrong people come enter our country."
US forces have seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, in a major escalation of Donald Trump’s four-month pressure campaign against the South American country’s dictator, Nicolás Maduro.
The US president confirmed the operation on Wednesday, telling reporters: “We’ve just seized a tanker on the coast of Venezuela - a large tanker, very large, the largest one ever seized actually. And other things are happening so you will be seeing that later and you will be talking about that later with other people.”
Two US officials told Reuters the operation was led by the US Coast Guard, but did not name the tanker or say specifically where the interception happened. A senior Trump administration official told Bloomberg that the US had conducted a “judicial enforcement action on a stateless vessel” that was last docked in Venezuela.
Doesn't seem to be flying, Orville.
Feds bring woman to US to face charges, then say she’s here illegally
Feeling burned out? There's a word for that in Mandarin Chinese
https://www.npr.org/2025/12/10/nx-s1-5633319/word-of-week-involution-mandarin
A young engineering student in the US has turned a high-school experiment into a new business by blending 3D printing and modern materials to reinvent one of classical music’s most iconic instruments, the cello.
Elijah Lee, a biomedical engineering senior at Yale and co-founder of Forte3D, just secured a massive deal on Shark Tank after 3D-printing a cello using carbon fiber and polymer composites.
Lee’s innovative cello, which replaces traditional tonewood with high-performance composites while preserving sound quality, earned him a USD 250,000 investment from entrepreneur Lori Greiner for 16 percent equity on the show.
