Time magazine’s Friday cover depicts Elon Musk behind the Resolute Desk in the White House’s Oval Office, a seat typically reserved for the president, seeming to imply that the world’s wealthiest man holds greater power in Washington than even president Donald Trump. Musk, who spent an estimated $288 million US to get Trump elected, has been granted…
President Donald Trump on Friday called for USAID to be shuttered, escalating his unprecedented campaign to dismantle the humanitarian agency. “THE CORRUPTION IS AT LEVELS RARELY SEEN BEFORE. CLOSE IT DOWN!” Trump wrote on his Truth Social app without offering any evidence to back up his assertion. His latest attack on the United States Agency…
Washington, United States: A judge on Thursday suspended a scheme masterminded by billionaire Elon Musk to slash the size of the US government by encouraging federal workers to quit through a mass buyout. The federal judge in Massachusetts ordered a temporary injunction on the plan’s deadline — midnight Thursday — given by Musk for…
Donald Trump’s ”maximum pressure” campaign on Iran will do much to hamper its progress on developing the nuclear bomb, experts have warned. It follows revelations that the Islamic regime has been secretly developing its nuclear programme at two additional sites, as it fights a race against time to mate nuclear warheads to ballistic missiles. Crucially,…
As the nation continues to mourn the 67 lives lost when an Army Black Hawk helicopter collided with American Airlines Flight 5342 Wednesday night, victims’ personal stories are beginning to be told. Among those killed was married couple Bob and Lori Schrock, farmers from Kiowa, Kansas who reportedly ran Premium Grain Inc. Their friend, Michael…
Damascus, Syria: In less than two months, Syria’s Ahmed al-Sharaa has risen from rebel leader to interim president, after his Islamist group led a lightning offensive that toppled Bashar al-Assad. Sharaa was appointed Wednesday to lead Syria for an unspecified transitional period, and has been tasked with forming an interim legislature after the…