The US Treasury Department on Friday authorised US government NGOs and certain international organisations to engage with the Taliban and Haqqani Network in order to conduct transactions that are necessary for humanitarian activities.

Both the Taliban and Haqqani Network are under US sanctions.

⚡️United Airlines fined $1.9M by US Transportation Dept. for breaking rules on long tarmac delays

💔 Elon Musk and Grimes have broken up – or, as Musk describes it, they are now “semi-separated”.

The SpaceX and Tesla CEO has told Page Six that despite the fact that they still love each other, their careers are keeping them apart for long periods of time.

The couple, however, will continue co-parenting their son, X Æ A-Xii.

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⚡️ Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou pleads not guilty to fraud and conspiracy charges

😳 CNN anchor Chris Cuomo has been accused of sexual harassment by his former boss at ABC News, Shelley Ross.

She says the incident occurred back in 2005 at a bar.

A month ago, allegations of harassment forced the CNN anchor’s older brother, then-NY Governor Andrew Cuomo, to resign.

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🇺🇸✈️ Fresh off its mammoth evacuation effort from Afghanistan, the US government has now turned to deporting Haitians from its migrant camps.

Department of Homeland Security chief Alejandro Mayorkas said the US has conducted 17 expulsion flights to Haiti with approximately 2,000 individuals on board.

WATCH: White students yelled at because of a Police Lives Matter sticker at Arizona University

🤦 Nowadays all it takes is a "Police Lives Matter" sticker or a "Did Not Vote For Biden" t-shirt to be labeled "racist" and "offensive"

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🇨🇦🇨🇳 Canadian authorities freed Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou after she struck a deferred prosecution deal with the US Justice Department.

The deal required Meng to admit to misleading HSBC in exchange for ending the extradition proceedings.

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🇭🇹 A massive migrant encampment in the Texas border town of Del Rio has been cleared out, according to reports.

But where did they go, as of the almost 15,000 migrants, only about 2,000 were flown back to Haiti.

According to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, about 5000 Haiti nationals are still being processed and the rest were either released into the US under the asylum process or returned to Mexico voluntarily.

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Riders who chased refugees on the US border moved from the saddle to the office chairs.

US Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said that the mounted law enforcement officials who attacked migrants with what appeared to be whips have now been assigned administrative duties, and were no longer working with migrants.

🔎 The FBI is investigating the assault of a female Fort Bliss soldier by several male Afghan refugees at the US Army's Doña Ana Complex (New Mexico) where thousands are currently being housed.

The assaulted soldier has received support and counseling, according to an FBI statement.

Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton has become the first female chancellor of Queen's University in Belfast! Her induction ceremony looked rather over the top, but it wasn't without scandal: when Hillary solemnly entered the building, she was booed and called a criminal.

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Joe Biden has remarked that the Indian press was "much better behaved" than the American media while delivering a statement during a bilateral meeting with Narendra Modi at the White House.

"I think, with your permission, you could not answer questions because they [the US press] won't ask any questions on point", Biden told Modi.