WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump has abruptly fired the director of national security agency (NSA), according to US officials and members of Congress, but White House and the Pentagon have provided no reasons for the move.Senior military leaders were informed Thursday of the firing of Air Force Gen. Tim Haugh, who also oversaw the Pentagon’s Cyber […]
Were Trump’s tariffs responsible for delay in TikTok deal? (Picture credit: AP) A long-anticipated deal to shift TikTok’s US operations into American hands was nearly sealed, until US President Donald Trump’s sweeping new tariff announcement derailed it, according to sources familiar with the negotiations, reported news agency Associated Press.The Trump administration had been working for […]
File photo: US President Donald Trump (Picture credit: AP) The US Supreme Court on Friday handed a major victory to the Trump administration by allowing it to terminate over $600 million in federal teacher-training grants, part of its broader campaign to dismantle diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. The 5-4 decision overruled a lower court’s […]
Donald Trump spends day at Florida golf course as markets tumble (Picture credit: AP) As financial markets continue to reel from a sweeping new tariff plan, US President Donald Trump spent his weekend in Florida, playing golf and attending a lavish $1 million-a-plate dinner, doubling down on his hardline economic strategy and dismissing mounting fears […]
Donald Trump posted a cryptic message on Truth Social amid tariff chaos. President Donald Trump put out a cryptic message Friday amid global meltdown over his tariffs as he wrote ‘only the weak will fail’. The aftershocks of Donald Trump’s massive tariff moves started with China announced an additional 34 per cent tariff on all […]
‘Stop playing politics!’: Donald Trump urges Fed Chair Jerome Powell to slash rates (Picture credit: AP) US President Donald Trump on Friday called on Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell to cut interest rates immediately, even as the central bank faces mounting pressure over inflation concerns triggered by his administration’s sweeping new tariffs.“This would be a […]
Donald Trump personally chose the formula based on which the tariffs were decided. A White House official told Washington Post that President Donald Trump is “at the peak of just not giving a f**k anymore”, explaining the rationale behind the reciprocratory tariffs that the president announced on April 2. “Bad news stories? Doesn’t give a […]
Donald Trump delays TikTok ban again, grants 75-day extension (Picture credit: AP) TikTok will continue operating in the United States until at least mid-June, after US President Donald Trump on Friday signed an executive order delaying the ban by another 75 days. The deadline extension gives ByteDance more time to divest TikTok’s US operations amid […]
California wants to negotiate with countries separately, bypassing Trump tariffs. California which is the world’s 5th largest economy does not seem to agree with Donald Trump’s tariffs as its governor Democratic leader Gavin Newsom appealed to countries to exclude California-made products from taxes. “Donald Trump’s tariffs do not represent all Americans,” Newsom said in a […]
Donald Trump’s first reaction to market crash on Thursday was ‘it’s going well’ President Donald Trump Thursday said he didn’t check his 401K account (retirement savings plan) when he was asked about the market crash as a result of his tariffs on about 60 countries. “I think it’s going very well. It was an operation. […]
