Vivek Ramaswamy, Donald Trump, Elon Musk TOI Correspondent from Washington: DOGE days are coming to the United States under Donald Trump. The US President-elect on Tuesday named tech bros Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, both of immigrant origin, to head a new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to “dismantle Government Bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut […]
Defense secretary nominee Pete Hegseth embraces Trump’s “America First” policies. President-elect Donald Trump stunned the Pentagon and the broader defense world by nominating Fox News host Pete Hegseth to serve as his defense secretary, tapping someone largely inexperienced and untested on the global stage to take over the world’s largest and most powerful military. The […]
Republicans will maintain control of the House of Representatives by the thinnest of margins, NBC News projected Wednesday, handing President-elect Donald Trump and his party all the levers of power in Washington. A Republican-controlled Congress will allow Trump to quickly fill out his Cabinet and other top administration roles and advance his agenda for at least the […]
Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland says the Canada carbon rebate for small businesses will be tax-free. In a statement posted to X late Tuesday, Freeland clarified the parameters of the program after an advocacy group for small business raised concerns that the rebate would be a taxable benefit. Dan Kelly, president and […]
Last Updated:November 13, 2024, 00:03 IST Trump also is expected to end President Joe Biden’s humanitarian programs that allowed hundreds of thousands of migrants to enter legally in recent years Trump’s early executive actions would kickstart his immigration agenda. (Reuters) Donald Trump is expected to take a slew of executive actions on his first day […]
The re-election of Donald Trump has amplified the voices of America’s misogynists who believe that ‘women are property’. Rosemary Sorensen writes. FEMINISM HAS MADE a difference to women’s lives in the past 50 years. Misogyny, nevertheless, is still very much embedded in masculinist belief systems, as the United States Presidential Election of a vulgar, sexist, […]
Getty Images Trump’s choice of Congresswoman Elise Stefanik for US ambassador to the UN suggests he’ll take a strong approach to relations with China. A week after Donald Trump won a second-term in the White House, the contours of his new presidency have started taking shape. The president-elect has announced nearly a dozen appointees, the […]
Trump could issue an executive order to nullify a ban on the platform, but experts question the legality of such a move. After a tumultuous year filled with anxiety and a legal battle about its future in the U.S., TikTok may have just been thrown a lifeline by the man who was once its biggest […]
Former Arkansas Gov Mike Huckabee will be the next US ambassador to Israel in the incoming Trump administration, President-elect Trump announced on Tuesday. “I am pleased to announce that the Highly Respected former Governor of Arkansas, Mike Huckabee, has been nominated to be The United States Ambassador to Israel,” Trump said in a social media […]
Trump’s mass deportation proposal could cost $300B Trump’s mass deportation proposal could cost $300B, according to the non-partisan advocacy group, the American Immigration Council. WASHINGTON, D.C. – President-elect Donald Trump’s promise of mass deportation has some immigrants across the country fearing the worst. They are taking Trump at his word when he told supporters in […]