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‘Markets are going to boom’: Donald Trump reacts to his reciprocal tariffs after global stocks slide

Donald Trump said ‘it’s going very well’ after he was asked to comment on the market crash following his tariff announcements. President Donald Trump Thursday said the response to his major tariffs has been very good. “I think it’s going very well. It was an operation like what a patient gets operated on, and it’s […]

No relief for Hegseth, Mike Waltz: Pentagon to probe ‘leak’ of Yemen war plan

Mike Waltz and Pete Hegseth are under fire for the ‘Signalgate’. The Pentagon inspector general’s office will investigate Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s use of commercial messaging app Signal to discuss air strikes on Yemen, a memo released Thursday said. The review will also look at other defense officials’ use of the publicly available encrypted app, […]

Austin Metcalf: Austin Metcalf’s father speaks up on ‘racial attack’ debate: ‘My son is gone. Please don’t…’

Texas teen Austin Metcalf was stabbed by Karmelo Anthony (right) over seating arrangement. Jeff Metcalf, the father of Austin Metcalf who was killed in a brutal stab attack at a sports event, broke his silence about the ongoing social media debate on whether it was a racist or political attack. 17-year-old Austin Metcalf, a bright […]

Howard Lutnick On Trump Tariff: ‘Let Trump run the global economy’: Howard Lutnick says there’s no way Trump would back off on tariffs

Trump tariff mastermind Howard Lutnick said there’s no way the president would back off on reciprocal tariffs. Donald Trump’s commerce secretary Howard Lutnick Thursday said that people should just let the president run the global economy because he knows what he has been doing. He’s been talking about it for 35 years, Lutnick said defending […]

Barack Obama says ‘sorry’ for photobombing; family says they got an heirloom picture

A Washington family got a pleasant surprise when Barack Obama entered the frame of their family photo. Former president Barack Obama said sorry for unintentionally photobombing what an overjoyed family claimed will now go down into their family heirloom. One Portia Moore posted the photo of her kids with Barack Obama passing by in the […]

Trump’s Tariffs Follow Anger Over Trade Imbalances and Lost Manufacturing Jobs

President Trump upended the international trading system on Wednesday with a blunt package of global tariffs, making the case that the United States faces a dire economic emergency as a result of trade imbalances with countries across the globe. It’s a sentiment that Mr. Trump has expressed for decades, one that helped propel him to […]

Austin Metcalf Karmelo Anthony: ‘Austin Metcalf’s death not racial hatred’: Social media debate over stabbing of 17-year-old Texas athlete

Austin Metcalf (left) was stabbed to death by Karmelo Anthony at a sports event. 17-year-old Austin Metcalf was stabbed to death by another 17-year-old, Kermelo Anthony, at an athletics competition in Frisco, Texas. They did not know each other and got into an argument over a seat that led to Anthony taking out the small […]

Canada slaps 25% retaliatory auto tariff on US after Donald Trump’s duty comes in effect

Canadian PM Mark Carney and Donald Trump (File Image) Canada hit back at the United States over Donald Trump’s 25 per cent auto tariffs and imposed retaliatory duty on the imported US vehicles. Canada slapped a 25 per cent tariff on vehicles imported from the US that are not compliant with the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA).Addressing […]

Trump trolls ‘tariff terrorism’ talk as US markets tank

The TOI Correspondent from Washington: American stock indices tanked “bigly” the morning after the MAGA supremo Donald Trump’s “tariff terrorism” but the US President remained upbeat about the eventual outcome of his tectonic trade gambit amid the market meltdown. “THE OPERATION IS OVER! THE PATIENT LIVED, AND IS HEALING. THE PROGNOSIS IS THAT THE PATIENT […]

White House ousts NSC staffers after Trump’s meeting with far-right activist Laura Loomer

Donald Trump and Laura Loomer (R) The White House has dismissed at least three National Security Council (NSC) staffers after a meeting between President Donald Trump and far-right activist Laura Loomer, CNN reported.Loomer, who has previously promoted conspiracy theories, urged Trump to remove several NSC members, including principal deputy national security advisor Alex Wong, alleging […]