The offer emerged from the two leaders’ White House talks, just hours after Trump railed against the climate for American businesses in India and unveiled a roadmap for reciprocal tariffs on every country that puts duties on U.S. imports. “Prime Minister Modi recently announced the reductions to India’s unfair, very strong tariffs that limit our […]
Known widely as “RFK Jr.,” the 71-year-old nephew of the late president John F. Kennedy secured confirmation in a 52-48 vote largely along party lines, becoming the latest contentious addition to President Donald Trump’s cabinet. Kennedy now heads a department overseeing 80,000 employees and a $1.7 trillion budget as scientists warn of a potential bird […]
The popular short video app, used by nearly half of all Americans, went dark briefly last month before a law took effect on January 19 that requires its Chinese owner ByteDance either to sell it on national security grounds or face a ban. The following day Trump signed an executive order seeking to delay the […]
“Today is the big one: reciprocal tariffs,” Trump wrote on his social media platform ahead of his announcement. The tariffs were not going into effect on Thursday but could begin to be imposed within weeks as Trump’s trade and economic team studies bilateral tariff and trade relationships, a White House official told reporters on a […]
Trump said the pair agreed to “immediately” start negotiations on the Ukraine conflict during the call, which marked the first direct presidential contact between Washington and Moscow in three years. “There is a need to organize such a meeting quite promptly, the heads of state have a lot to talk about,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov […]
The “water tank dismantling has been postponed because of strong winds”, Tatsuya Matoba, a Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) spokesperson, told AFP. “The process could start from tomorrow depending on weather conditions”, he added. The step was seen as a milestone in TEPCO’s decades-long project to decommission the stricken plant in northern Japan, which went […]
In November, Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki on the tourist island of Flores erupted multiple times, killing nine people, canceling scores of international flights to Bali, and forcing the evacuation of thousands. The latest emergency measures around the 1,703-metre (5,587-foot) twin-peaked volcano came after increased seismic and volcanic activity. “The results of visual monitoring and seismic activity […]
In their first confirmed contact since Trump’s return to the White House, the US president said he had held a “lengthy and highly productive” conversation with the Russian counterpart who ordered the bloody 2022 invasion of Ukraine. But the move sparked concerns that Ukraine will be left out of talks on its fate after Trump […]
In their first confirmed contact since Trump’s return to the White House, the US president said he had held a “lengthy and highly productive” conversation with the Russian counterpart who ordered the bloody 2022 invasion of Ukraine. But the move sparked concerns that Ukraine will be left out of talks on its fate after Trump […]
The buyout is one of many approaches Trump is taking to slash a civilian workforce of 2.3 million that he has blasted as ineffective and biased against him. He has also ordered government agencies to prepare for wide-ranging job cuts, and several have already begun to lay off recent hires who lack full job security. […]
