A federal judge on Tuesday rejected a challenge by the largest U.S. business lobby group to President Donald Trump‘s $100,000 fee on new H-1B visas for highly skilled foreign workers, saying it fell under his broad powers to regulate immigration. U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell in Washington, D.C., rejected arguments by the U.S. Chamber of … Read more
WASHINGTON: As the dawn rose on President Donald Trump‘s second term, one key figure from his first administration stood back, content to focus on his personal business interests and not retake a formal government role. Now, nearly a year into Trump 2.0, Trump‘s son-in-law Jared Kushner has been drawn back into the foreign policy fold … Read more
ROCKY MOUNT, N.C.: She had worked 22 days straight in her job as a technician at an engine plant to save up, and now Daijah Bryant could finally do what she was putting off: Christmas shopping. Bryant pushed her cart out of a Walmart in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, and loaded her sedan’s backseat with … Read more
As U.S. President Donald Trump approaches the end of his first year back in the White House, a growing body of polling data suggests that his political momentum may be fading. While Trump remains a dominant figure within the Republican Party, recent surveys from Reuters/Ipsos and NBC News indicate that his overall approval ratings have … Read more
Washington: The Trump administration has circulated a series of one-page confidential documents to European governments outlining a sweeping US peace blueprint to end the Russia-Ukraine war — an initiative that is generating deep trans-Atlantic tensions and could reshape global energy and financial markets, while coming as a relief to India. The American proposals, described by … Read more
The Trump Administration this week abruptly withdrew its high-profile plan to overhaul how $3.9 billion in federal aid to combat homelessness would be spent, saying it would reissue the proposal after making “appropriate revisions.” The surprise move, revealed in a one-paragraph note by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, did not give a reason … Read more
How low can President Donald Trump go? One answer is his Thanksgiving Day social media screed, trashing America as “divided, disrupted, carved up, murdered, beaten, mugged, and laughed at,” because of the immigration policies of leaders like Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, whom he called “seriously retarded.” (This was after two National Guardsmen were shot, one … Read more
Two planes carrying Venezuelan migrants out of the U.S. were midair on March 15 when a federal judge in Washington ordered the Trump administration to turn them around. Instead, the planes landed in El Salvador hours later, touching off an extraordinary power struggle between the judicial and executive branches of the U.S. government over what … Read more
The first Group of 20 summit to be held in Africa opens on Saturday with an ambitious agenda to make progress on solving some of the long-standing problems that have afflicted the world’s poorest nations. Leaders and top government officials from the richest and leading emerging economies will come together at an exhibition centre near … Read more
There was one moment in particular when Zohran Mamdani seemed like he might have bit off a little more than he could chew by making his lonely pilgrimage down to the lion’s den that is President Donald Trump‘s blinged-out Oval Office. The 34-year-old mayor-elect of New York was pressed by a reporter if he thought … Read more