In a move that could reshape the way Americans are taxed at the state level, Mississippi and Kentucky have launched ambitious plans to eliminate personal income taxes—something no US state has done in more than four decades.The last time this happened was in 1980, when oil-rich Alaska scrapped its income tax. Now, with budget surpluses […]
Two British female MPs from the Labour Party were detained and denied entry by Israeli authorities on Saturday, accused of spreading anti-Israel rhetoric and attempting to document the activities of security forces, sparking a diplomatic row between London and Tel Aviv.The MPs, Yuan Yang and Abtisam Mohamed, were part of an official parliamentary delegation when […]
The Senate approved Republicans’ budget blueprint just after 2:30 a.m. on Saturday to clear the way for passing President Trump’s domestic agenda, after Democrats forced an overnight session to protest the G.O.P. push to deliver what the president has called “one big beautiful bill” of spending and tax cuts. The 51-to-48 vote, mostly along party […]
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, […]
Trump’s national security advisor Mike Waltz (File Image) It seems that US President Donald Trump‘s national security advisor Mike Waltz’s job is in danger after the Yemen war plan leak on a Signal group chat scandal. “Should I fire him?” he inquired of his staff and associates, as controversy mounted over Waltz’s accidental inclusion of […]
A federal judge in Washington, DC, extended a restraining order preventing the Trump administration from using a centuries-old wartime law to deport Venezuelan nationals accused of gang affiliation, reports Fox news. The order was issued by US district judge James Boasberg on Friday and is set to remain in place until at least April 12.The […]
Mike Waltz added the Atlantic journalist to the Signal group, while Pete Hegseth discussed war plans in the group. Democrats were up in arms against the Donald Trump administration, demanding an investigation into the leak of the government’s war plan on a Signal group, which had Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffret Goldberg. Goldberg reported his experience of […]
Donald Trump (File photo) US President Donald Trump on Tuesday downplayed a journalist’s accidental inclusion in a group chat discussing Yemen air strikes as a “glitch” and maintained support for his senior national security team despite the security breach.In a telephone interview with NBC, Trump, who resumed office in January, stated the breach was “the […]
JD Vance and Pete Hegseth hate Europe, bash it as ‘pathetic’ and ‘free-loading’. The leak of the US’ detailed plan to strike Houthi targets in Yemen on an encrypted messaging app signal put the Donald Trump administration in a tough spot while defense secretary Pete Hegseth brushed aside the allegations and said no war plan […]
