US Supreme Court halts reinstatement of 16,000 federal workers dismissed under Trump administration

US President Donald Trump The United States Supreme Court on Tuesday halted a directive requiring the Trump administration to reinstate thousands of federal workers who were dismissed during extensive workforce reductions. The court’s intervention came after the administration sought emergency relief from a California federal judge’s decision, which mandated the return of 16,000 probationary staff […]

Random Musings: Why quantum physics, not economics, is key to understanding Trump tariffs | World News

In The Tao of Physics, perhaps the finest popular novel on parallels between modern physics and “Eastern mysticism”, author Michiko Kaku sums up the dichotomy by stating: “Socrates in Greece made the famous statement ‘I know that I know nothing,’ and Lao Tzu in China said, ‘Not knowing that one knows is best.’” The two […]

Trump Tariff: Russian state TV ‘mocks’ Trump, says he should be given a medal for destroying trust in economy

Russian state TV reveled that Trump destroyed trust in the economy. Russian state TV cheered for Donald Trump as the president imposed reciprocal tariffs across the world, leading to a global economic meltdown. Russia has been kept out of the list and political scientist Dmitry Kulikov said on a TV program that Trump’s tariffs look […]

Trump Administration Fires Another Female U.S. Military Leader

The Trump administration fired Vice Adm. Shoshana Chatfield, U.S. officials said on Monday, as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth continued his purge of military leaders who have been targeted by conservatives. Admiral Chatfield, who served in the Navy as the U.S. representative to NATO’s military committee, has joined a list of female leaders and people of […]

Tariff turmoil: Did Elon Musk ask Donald Trump to pull back?

File photo of US President Donald Trump and Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk (Pic credit: AP) Tech billionaire and DOGE head Elon Musk made direct appeals to US President Donald Trump to reverse sweeping tariffs over the past weekend. According to a report in Washington Post, which cited sources, Musk’s efforts were unsuccessful.Highest-profile disagreement […]

What is Alien Enemies Act at centre of Trump deportation win in Supreme Court

The US supreme court on Monday lifted a lower court’s order that had blocked the deportation of undocumented Venezuelan migrants under the 1798 Alien Enemies Act (AEA)—a wartime law. In a narrow 5–4 ruling, the justices allowed deportations to resume, siding with the Trump administration’s decision to expel the migrants under a proclamation targeting the […]

Who is Amy Coney Barrett? Trump appointed judge who sided with liberals on deportation ruling

The US Supreme Court on Monday quashed a lower court order that had blocked the deportation of undocumented Venezuelan migrants by the Trump administration under a wartime law called the Alien Enemies Act of 1798.In the 5-4 ruling, chief justice John Roberts and four other conservative justices voted to lift the district court’s temporary block, […]

Trump and CBS set for mediation in $20 billion lawsuit over Kamala Harris interview

US president Donald Trump and Paramount, the parent company of CBS News, will soon begin mediation in a $20 billion lawsuit Trump has filed over what he calls “news distortion,” reported New York Times.The case focuses on CBS’s editing of an interview with former Vice President Kamala Harris that aired on its flagship programme 60 […]

‘Will make world trade better for US’: Trump declares full support for ‘one, big, beautiful bill’

US president Donald Trump on Monday declared full support for the Senate’s newly approved budget plan.Posting on Truth Social, Trump wrote that the bill includes “all the elements we need”—from permanent tax cuts to major spending reductions and border security. “The budget plan just passed by the United States Senate has my complete and total […]