Donald Trump names Interior-designee Doug Burgum to head new White House council on energy | Photo Credit: AP President-elect Donald Trump announced Friday (November 15, 2024) that North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum, his choice to head the Interior Department, will also lead a newly created National Energy Council that will seek to establish U.S. “energy … Read more
Washington: Donald Trump was elected the 47th president of the United States on Wednesday, an extraordinary comeback for a former president who refused to accept defeat four years ago, sparked a violent insurrection at the US Capitol, was convicted of felony charges and survived two assassination attempts.Republicans reclaimed control of the Senate-crucial in helping Trump … Read more
World leaders raced to congratulate Donald Trump on Wednesday as he triumphed in a stunning US election victory over Kamala Harris.European leaders in particular were quick to extend their best wishes and offers of cooperation, in contrast to a much cooler reaction when Trump won for the first time in 2016. China: ‘mutual respect’ Without … Read more
With Donald Trump almost certain to become the US President once again, the spotlight will fall on his trusted ally and close friend, Elon Musk, the owner of Tesla, SpaceX, and social media platform X. Addressing his supporters during his first victory speech today, Trump thanked and expressed his appreciation for the world’s richest man. … Read more
Spotlight has fallen on Indian voters in the US presidential elections, thanks to a tight race between Donald Trump and Kamal Harris. Opinion polls in the campaign’s final days have shown the candidates running neck and neck in each of the seven swing states likely to determine the winner: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, … Read more
For all the bold talk of tariffs and price controls, the economic legacy of the next president will mostly depend on something far more mundane: the tax code — specifically, the 2017 Tax Cut and Jobs Act, much of which will expire next year. Whoever is in the White House, working with whichever party controls … Read more
Both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris’s teams are quietly preparing their governments-in-waiting, even as the two nominees remain focused on actually winning the presidency in the final days of an incredibly close election on Tuesday. Not surprisingly, their approaches are as different as their campaigns. Already Harris’s lean transition team has set up shop in … Read more
Two weeks after making a stunning $44 billion bid to buy Twitter in April 2022, Elon Musk began to lay out a vision for his ownership of the social network. The company’s management had become biased in favour of left-wing values, Musk argued, and he would stamp out political partisanship. “For Twitter to deserve public … Read more
Atlanta: With the death and destruction in Gaza on her mind, Soraya Burhani agonised over how to cast her vote for president. “For us, Muslims, I see that there’s no good choice,” she said. With the US handling of the Israel-Hamas war and conflict in the Middle East looming over the White House race, many … Read more
The banks of the Rio Grande river separating Mexico and the United States look almost deserted, and formerly overcrowded migrant shelters are half empty — a consequence of tougher US immigration policies in an election year. The change reflects not only the success of US deterrence, but also heated rhetoric ahead of next week’s closely … Read more