File photo: US President Donald Trump (Picture credit: AP) TOI correspondent from Washington: US President Donald Trump on Monday warned Iran that he is ready to go beyond destroying its power plants and bridges if it does not “cry uncle” before his Tuesday evening deadline. “We have obliterated the country…they don’t want to say uncle […]
Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw, along with American songwriter Bob Dylan, are the only two people to achieve literary and cinematic harmony: winning both the Nobel and the Oscar. Bernard Shaw won his Nobel for the screenplay Pygmalion, which was made into a movie and was credited with elevating Hollywood from illiteracy to literacy. Bernard […]
US President Donald Trump on Friday suggested ‘winding down’ US military operations in the Middle East as he listed the ‘5 objectives’ that Washington is nearing to achieve in its war in the Middle East, ruling out the possibility of a ceasefire. The announcement comes as Iran’s new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei claimed victory over […]
FBI files reveal new details about Trump rally shooter Newly released FBI interview documents reviewed by the New York Post provide fresh details about Thomas Matthew Crooks, the 20-year-old gunman who attempted to assassinate then-presidential candidate Donald Trump at a campaign rally in July 2024.The documents were provided to Senate judiciary committee chairman Chuck Grassley […]
US federal court blocks Trump administration’s four-year visa rule for international students, researchers, blocking Sept 15 implementation. In a major reprieve for international students, researchers, academics and foreign journalists, a US federal district court has blocked the Trump administration from implementing a new rule that would replace the longstanding ‘duration of status’ system with fixed […]
Trump claims Russia, Ukraine agree to stop hitting each other’s energy targets US President Donald Trump on Monday said Ukraine and Russia had agreed to stop attacking each other’s energy targets, linking the conflict to rising diesel prices and global fuel supply concerns.Trump made the claim in a post on Truth Social, a day after […]
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 […]
If one listens to commentary about Donald Trump – and there’s so much of it that banning the word ‘Trump’ would bankrupt WENA outlets – you would assume he was an anomaly in the system, the sum total of all unbalanced equations, antithetical to the American way of life. In recent times, his actions — […]
In the early hours of Feb. 28, President Donald Trump and his administration joined Israel in launching a wave of strikes on Iran, and later that night, he asked a group of roughly 25 GOP donors at Mar-a-Lago in Florida whom they would prefer he support for president in 2028: Secretary of State Marco Rubio […]
Iran President Pezeshkian vows revenge after Khamenei killed in US–Israel strikes (Picture credit: AP) Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian has declared that avenging the killing of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is both a “legitimate duty and right” of the Islamic Republic, following joint US–Israeli strikes that killed the 86-year-old leader.In a statement carried by state […]
