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US President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Dr Jay Bhattacharya, who opposed COVID-19 lockdowns, to run the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the primary agency in the United States responsible for public health research. Bhattacharya is known for his criticism of the Biden administration’s handling of the COVID pandemic after it took power in January 2021. […]
Last Updated:November 17, 2024, 00:00 IST Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy announced that they will livestream every week to update the American public on the progress of the works by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Vivek Ramaswamy vociferously supported Trump’s hardline policies and emerged as a powerful voice of his 2024 campaign. (Reuters) Indian-origin […]
United States President-elect Donald Trump has picked Fox News host and military veteran Pete Hegseth, a pro-Israel and Iran hawk, to serve as his defence secretary, lauding him as “tough, smart and a true believer in America First”. The 44-year-old’s nomination to lead the world’s most powerful military has come in for criticism from the […]
In the most expensive election in American history, Republicans flipped the Senate, likely tightened their grip on the House of Representatives and returned Donald Trump to the White House. The so-called “red wave” predicted for the 2022 mid-term elections rolled in two years later, and the MAGA movement is now the dominant force in American […]
Donald Trump will be returning to the White House after a landslide over his Democratic rival Kamala Harris. But it will take time for him to take charge. The US Congress will be validating the electoral results on January 6, 2025. After that, the President-elect will be sworn in at the inauguration ceremony, which takes […]
Los Angeles, California: American comic and talk show host Jimmy Kimmel, who usually shows his audience the funny side of things, could not find his smile on the day Donald Trump was elected President of the US for a second time. The renowned TV host teared and choked up during his opening monologue of his […]
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Giorgia Meloni and Donald Trump (Picture credit: Agencies) ROME: Italy’s right-wing Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Wednesday congratulated Donald Trump after he claimed victory in the US presidential election, and said it would strengthen ties between the two countries. In a post on X Meloni offered her “most sincere congratulations” to Trump, and said Italy […]
Atlanta: At least two polling sites in the US election battleground state of Georgia were briefly evacuated on Tuesday after fake bomb threats that election officials in the state blamed on Russian agents. The threats, which were deemed to be non-credible, caused two polling locations in Fulton County, Georgia, to be evacuated. Both reopened after […]
In an advertisement for the Democrats in the United States in October, an image of left-wing environmentalist politician Jill Stein morphs into the face of Republican candidate and former President Donald Trump within the blink of an eye. “A vote for Stein is really a vote for Trump,” a cautionary voiceover in the advertisement, titled “Crucial”, […]