Trump admin renews Supreme Court bid after judge extends block on mail-in voting. The Trump administration has asked the US Supreme Court to allow new mail-in voting restrictions to take effect before states send millions of ballots for November’s congressional elections.The emergency request, filed Sunday, asks the Supreme Court to lift a federal court order […]
A senior US counterterrorism official has resigned in protest against the Trump administration’s handling of the war with Iran, becoming the most senior figure to break ranks amid rising tensions in the Middle East.Joseph “Joe” Kent, director of the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC), announced on Tuesday that he was stepping down from his role, saying […]
Anthropic, the maker of Claude AI, has taken the Trump administration to court. The AI company has filed a lawsuit on Monday (March 9) to block the Pentagon from placing it on a national security blacklist – a designation that is reserved for those organisations, or countries, that pose national security threat. This is already […]
Renee Nicole Good lived a few blocks from where she died. She was 37, a US-born citizen, a poet, and a mother of three. On a winter morning in south Minneapolis, during a large federal immigration enforcement operation, she was shot and killed by an officer from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) while seated […]
The United States has approved a major arms deal worth $686 million to sell F-16 fighter jets to Pakistan, Dawn reported citing a Defense Security Cooperation Agency letter to US Congress.The deal would “support the foreign policy and national security objectives of the United States by allowing Pakistan to retain interoperability with US and partner […]
The Trump administration announced on Wednesday that it had increased vetting of H-1B visa applicants for highly skilled workers, instructing that anyone involved in “censorship” of free speech should be considered for rejection, according to an internal State Department memo.H-1B visas allow US employers to hire foreign workers in specialty fields and are crucial for […]
US Indian-origin lawmakers have raised concerns that measures undertaken by the Trump administration, such as the USD 100,000 fee on H1B visas and 50 per cent tariffs on India, were hurting American businesses and threatening people-to-people ties between Washington and Delhi.The remarks came during a House Foreign Affairs South and Central Asia Subcommittee hearing titled […]
The Trump administration said Monday that it would provide only half of the normal food stamp benefits for November by tapping into the programme’s contingency fund amid the government shutdown, but recipients were unlikely to see the payments immediately. Some $4.65 billion from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Programme’s contingency fund will “be obligated to cover […]
As the US government shutdown drags into its fourth week, millions of Americans are facing the threat of losing food assistance, and air traffic controllers are preparing to miss their first paychecks. The Department of Agriculture says Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits will stop on November 1, warning that “the well has run dry, ABC […]
When Republican leader Donald Trump took office in January, he brought a wave of high-profile appointments, including one of his favourites, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt.The blonde-haired MAGA spearhead replaced Karine Jean-Pierre, who had served as press secretary under Joe Biden.In the following weeks, Leavitt quickly became the public face of Trump to the […]
