Elon Musk, the world’s wealthiest person and the country’s biggest political donor, said on Saturday that he would create a new political party, an enormous and challenging undertaking that would test the billionaire’s newfound influence on American politics. “When it comes to bankrupting our country with waste & graft, we live in a one-party system, […]
Israel was considering its response on Saturday after Hamas said it was ready to start talks “immediately” on a US-sponsored proposal for a Gaza ceasefire. The security cabinet was expected to meet after the end of the Jewish sabbath at sundown to discuss Israel’s next steps, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prepared to head to […]
US President Trump said early Friday that he is set to resume a set of tariffs that he initially imposed in April on dozens of countries, before pausing them for 90 days to negotiate individual deals. Most of those deals have yet to materialise, and businesses in the US have been left guessing what levies […]
As tensions flare between Israel and Iran, a 2011 post from US president Donald Trump has resurfaced, where he accused then-President Barack Obama of planning to start a war with Iran to win re-election. “In order to get elected, @BarackObama will start a war with Iran,” Trump wrote in the 2011 post.Between 2011 and 2012, […]
Elon Musk toys the idea of starting his own party after his ‘big, beautiful’ divorce with Trump. After a major showdown between Elon Musk and Donald Trump that involved direct attacks, Elon Musk floated a poll on creating a new political party — leaving Republicans at a loss to grasp the situation and how quickly […]
File photo: Rep Shri Thanedar (Picture credit: AP) Indian-origin Rep Shri Thanedar’s bid to impeach US President Donald Trump collapsed on Wednesday after fierce resistance from within his own party. The Michigan Democrat, who filed seven articles of impeachment in April, said he was backing off from forcing a House vote, opting instead to revise […]
Qatar Emiri Air Force F-15s provide an honorary escort for Air Force One (AP) DOHA: President Donald Trump’s trip to Qatar is off to a flying start. Like Saudi Arabia a day earlier, Qatar didn’t bother waiting for Trump to land before setting out to impress him with a fighter jet escort. As Trump flew […]
For the first time since Russia invaded Ukraine over three years ago, the leaders of France, Germany, Poland and the United Kingdom will make a joint visit to Kyiv. French president Emmanuel Macron, German chancellor Friedrich Merz, UK prime minister Keir Starmer and Polish prime minister Donald Tusk are expected to meet Ukrainian president Volodymyr […]
VATICAN CITY: With all the pomp, drama and solemnity that the Catholic Church can muster, 133 cardinals on Wednesday began the secretive, centuries-old ritual to elect a successor to Pope Francis, opening the most geographically diverse conclave in the faith’s 2,000-year history. Two by two, the cardinals entered the Sistine Chapel chanting the meditative “Litany […]
IOWA CITY: The Trump administration could gut research on the effectiveness of child welfare programmes, with plans to terminate dozens of university grants studying improvements to Head Start and child care policy, according to a spreadsheet mistakenly made public this week. The document listed more than 150 research projects under consideration for termination by the […]
