New York Times reporter Ana Swanson reports from the Los Angeles Port, the largest port in the Western Hemisphere as well as the place that first saw the signs of Trump’s tariff war. The Port of Los Angeles is significant because of our trade relationship with China in particular, which is why The Trump administration’s […]
After deliberating since June 13, the jury Wednesday pronounced the verdict in the Karen Read case and found her not guilty of second-degree murder in the death of her Boston police officer boyfriend John O’Keefe but guilty of a lesser charge of drunken driving. Read’s lawyers have been claiming for long that she was framed […]
A day after the Khamenei-led Islamic Republic struck the IDF’s military base in Tel Aviv, Israel launched a major counteroffensive on Sunday, directly targeting Tehran’s defence and energy infrastructure in a sharp escalation of hostilities between the two arch-rivals.IDF also hit Iranian Shahran oil facility in its latest series of attacks.In response, Iran fired a […]
Just hours before Israel launched a military strike on Iran, US President Donald Trump called for a peaceful resolution to tensions over Iran’s nuclear program. In a message posted late Thursday on his Truth Social account, Trump wrote, “We remain committed to a Diplomatic Resolution to the Iran Nuclear Issue! My entire Administration has been […]
Scott Bessent called reports of his physical fight with Elon Musk ‘fake news’. Treasury secretary Scott Bessent shot down the reports of the physical fight between him and Elon Musk over the IRS commissioner and suggested that it was fake news. This episode, where Musk apparently hit Bessent like a rugby player after being called […]
Pakistan’s tax exemptions to various sectors cost the country over $21 billion this year, more than the $17 billion it needs to repay in commercial and bilateral external debt, as revealed in the latest economic survey.Pakistan’s finance minister Muhammad Aurangzeb presented the Economic Survey of Pakistan 2024-25 on Monday, which outlines various economic developments and […]
Australian reporter Lauren Tomasi shot on camera The US correspondent of Australia’s 9News was shot with a rubber bullet while reporting on the anti-immigration protests in the United States’ Los Angeles. The incident was caught live on camera.Lauren Tomasi was shot in the leg while reporting in America’s second-largest city, on Sunday.“After hours of standing […]
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt minimised reports of a physical confrontation between Elon Musk and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, describing it as a “robust disagreement.”Speaking to Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures,” Leavitt acknowledged her absence during the April incident but disputed characterisations of it as a “fistfight,” after […]
Donald Trump talking to reporters US President Donald Trump on Sunday talked about his decision to deploy National Guard troops to Los Angeles in response to protests against immigration raids, framing the move as essential to restoring law and order.Speaking to reporters before boarding Air Force One, departing for Camp David, Trump claimeddemonstrators had engaged […]
FBI director Kash Patel issued a statement Saturday night as immigration-related protests flared for a second night in Paramount, a suburb of Los Angeles. Patel warned that anyone who assaults law enforcement officers, including federal agents, would face jail time.“Hit a cop, you’re going to jail… doesn’t matter where you came from, how you got […]
