US President Donald Trump claimed on Saturday that “great progress” was made during the first day of high-stakes US-China trade talks in Geneva, signalling what he called a “total reset” in relations between the world’s two largest economies.In a post on Truth Social, the US president wrote, “A very good meeting today with China, in […]
US president Donald Trump on Thursday congratulated Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost on becoming Pope Leo XIV, the first American-born pope in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church. Posting on his social media platform, Truth Social, Trump described the event as a “great honour” for the United States and added, “What excitement, and what a […]
File photo: US federal reserve chair Jerome Powell (Picture credit: AP) US Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Wednesday warned that US President Donald Trump’s escalating and uncertain tariff policies could force the central bank into a difficult position where its key objectives, low inflation and maximum employment, might come into conflict. “I think there’s […]
President Donald Trump has announced plans to resurrect Alcatraz, the notorious island prison that once held America’s most dangerous criminals. Closed since 1963, the facility could soon be back in use under a Trump directive aimed at housing what he called “America’s most ruthless and violent offenders.”In a Truth Social post on Sunday evening, Trump […]
File: Marco Rubio (AP photo) United States secretary of state Marco Rubio on Tuesday announced there would be a “comprehensive” reorganization of the US State Department, which he leads. According to Rubio, the State Department, in its current form, is “bloated”, “bureaucratic”, and it has “failed” to perform its essential diplomatic mission in this era […]
President Donald Trump, left, greets Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni upon her arrival at the White House. (AP) US President Donald Trump and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni struck an unusually upbeat note on Friday as they met at the White House, signaling hope for a new US-EU trade deal and highlighting a growing ideological […]
Is regret setting in among Trump supporters? Not really, says CNN’s chief data analyst Harry Enten, who pushed back against the growing narrative that 2024 Trump voters are having second thoughts.Citing new polling data from YouGov, Enten revealed that only 2% of Republican voters say they would vote differently in a hypothetical rematch between Donald […]
Donald Trump spends day at Florida golf course as markets tumble (Picture credit: AP) As financial markets continue to reel from a sweeping new tariff plan, US President Donald Trump spent his weekend in Florida, playing golf and attending a lavish $1 million-a-plate dinner, doubling down on his hardline economic strategy and dismissing mounting fears […]
