China Q1 GDP growth beats expectations China’s economy posted stronger-than-expected growth in the first quarter of 2025, offering a temporary boost before the full impact of newly imposed US tariffs begins to bite. According to data released Wednesday by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), gross domestic product rose 5.4% year-on-year in the first three […]
Harvard defies Trump, faces $2.3bn federal funding freeze US President Donald Trump threatened to strip Harvard University of its tax-exempt status, intensifying an ongoing battle between the White House and the nation’s oldest and wealthiest university. The move came after Harvard rejected a list of policy changes demanded by the Trump administration, including shifts in […]
US president Donald Trump on Tuesday posted a video clip of Joe Biden’s first public speech since leaving office. The post appeared on Trump’s Truth Social account — without a caption. The video showed Biden speaking recalling his own early exposure to racial segregation, saying he had never seen “black people” before moving to Delaware […]
President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador has found a spot on the global stage by opening the doors of his prison system to President Trump. Zolan Kanno-Youngs, a White House correspondent for The New York Times, explains how Bukele, a self-proclaimed dictator, has gone from a pariah to a partner of Trump. Source link
Washington: Donald Trump believes it is up to China, not the United States, to come to the negotiating table on trade, the White House said Tuesday, after the US president accused Beijing of reneging on a major Boeing deal. “The ball is in China’s court. China needs to make a deal with us. We don’t […]
Donald Trump and Xi Jinping US President Donald Trump has said “the ball is in China’s court,” amid the ongoing tariff war between the two countries, after which America’s tariffs on Chinese goods have reached 145 per cent, while China, in turn, now imposes 125 per cent tariffs on imports from the United States.White House […]
File photo: Harvard University campus. (Sophie Park/The New York Times) In early April, US President Donald Trump asked a simple, incendiary question in a private White House lunch: “What if we never pay them?” The “them” was Harvard University, and the “pay” was $9 billion in federal grants. As per a New York Times report, […]
Washington DC: NASA’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion or DEI chief Neela Rajendra, who is of Indian origin, has been sacked by the US space agency in compliance with Donald Trump’s executive order to “terminate” all persons employed under such initiatives, and end all such programmes across the country. In an attempt to save her from […]
Washington DC: NASA’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion or DEI chief Neela Rajendra, who is of Indian origin, has been sacked by the US space agency in compliance with Donald Trump’s executive order to “terminate” all persons employed under such initiatives, and end all such programmes across the country. In an attempt to save her from […]
Donald Trump with granddaughter Kai US President Donald Trump recently took a jab at news organisations during a press briefing labelling them “fake news” as he introduced his eldest granddaughter, Kai Madison Trump, to reporters aboard Air Force One. Accompanied by Kai along with Donald Trump III, and Spencer Trump—children of Donald Trump Jr. and […]
