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'Nasty trap': Trump and Musk oppose stopgap bill, US govt shutdown looms

The stopgap spending measure, designed to extend government funding until March 14, met resistance from President-elect Donald Trump and Elon Musk

US Senate passes bill to raise troop pay, aims to counter China's power

The Senate passed a defence bill on Wednesday that authorises significant pay raises for junior enlisted service members, aims to counter China's growing power and boosts overall military spending to USD 895 billion while also stripping coverage of transgender medical treatments for children of military members. The annual defence authorisation bill usually gains strong bipartisan support and has not failed to pass Congress in nearly six decades, but the Pentagon policy measure in recent years has become a battleground for cultural issues. Republicans this year sought to tack on to the legislation priorities for social conservatives, contributing to a months-long negotiation over the bill and a falloff in support from Democrats. Still, the bill passed comfortably 85-14, sending it to President Joe Biden. Eleven senators who caucus with Democrats, as well as three Republicans, voted against the legislation. The bill "isn't perfect, but it still includes some very good things that ...

US House passes massive defense policy bill, despite transgender provision

The tally was 281-140 in favor of the National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, sending it for consideration by the Democratic-led US Senate

Chinese Salt Typhoon telecom hacking: Senators say US must boost security

US agencies held classified briefings for the Senate and the House of Representatives over the last week about the hacking incident

Trump nominates Harmeet Dhillon as civil rights' Assistant Attorney General

US President-elect Donald Trump on Monday nominated Indian-American Harmeet K Dhillon as Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the Department of Justice. I am pleased to nominate Harmeet K. Dhillon as Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the US Department of Justice, Trump announced on Truth Social, a social media platform owned by him. Throughout her career, Harmeet has stood up consistently to protect our cherished civil liberties, including taking on big tech for censoring our free speech, representing Christians who were prevented from praying together during COVID, and suing corporations who use woke policies to discriminate against their workers, he said. Harmeet is one of the top election lawyers in the country, fighting to ensure that all, and ONLY, legal votes are counted. She is a graduate of Dartmouth College and the University of Virginia Law School, and clerked in the US Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, Trump said. Harmeet is a respected member of th

Second-time unlucky: Trump's second term may be more disruptive

Global governance suffered from his withdrawal from climate accords and his hamstringing of the World Trade Organization, but the former made little difference

White House pressing Ukraine to draft 18-yr-old men to battle Russia

The official said "the pure math" of Ukraine's situation now is that it needs more troops in the fight

Donald Trump granted permission to seek dismissal of hush money case

Bragg's office said they would argue against dismissal, but agreed Trump deserved time to make his case through written motions

Why did Trump choice Matt Gaetz withdraw from Attorney General race?

President-elect Donald Trump selected Matt Gaetz for the role of Attorney General in early November 2024, a move that surprised even his followers: Here's why

Matt Gaetz drops bid for Trump attorney general amid Senate opposition

The announcement came a day after the House Ethics Committee deadlocked on releasing a report into allegations of sexual misconduct and illegal drug use by Gaetz

Donald Trump wins Republican trifecta as GOP retains House majority

Trump's grip over the so-called Washington trifecta, having earlier won the majority of the Senate, also strengthens the party's hand to enact immigration controls

Silent majority voted Trump to power says Indian American Republican

The silent majority who were frustrated with the wars and high inflation voted Donald Trump to power, an eminent Indian American Republican leader has said exuding confidence that it would be a successful second term. On November 6, Trump was elected the US president for a second term in one of the greatest political comebacks in American history, four years after an election loss in 2020 that sparked a violent insurrection at the US Capitol. The 78-year-old Republican leader defeated his Democratic rival Kamala Harris in a bitterly fought election. "We have been forecasting this (a Trump victory). We were seeing it in the ground movement. There was a silent majority. This was a result of America's lost foreign policies, the domestic inflation, out-of-control crime, out-of-control illegal immigration, poor infrastructure, and the Biden-Harris administration focusing on social issues that were not relevant with the masses, Jasdip Singh Jassee, founder of Sikhs for Trump told PTI. So

News updates: Prime Minister Narendra Modi to visit Nigeria, Brazil and Guyana from Nov 16-21

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Donald Trump Jr. opts out of White House; to join 1789 capital VC firm

President-elect Donald Trump's eldest son has said he won't be joining his father's administration in an official post

Trump breaks GOP losing streak in Dearborn with Arab-American support

Faced with two choices she didn't like, Suehaila Amen chose neither. Instead, the longtime Democrat from the Arab American stronghold of Dearborn, Michigan, backed a third-party candidate for president, adding her voice to a remarkable turnaround that helped Donald Trump reclaim Michigan and the presidency. In Dearborn, where nearly half of the 110,000 residents are of Arab descent, Vice President Kamala Harris received over 2,500 fewer votes than Trump, who became the first Republican presidential candidate since former President George W. Bush in 2000 to win the city. Harris also lost neighboring Dearborn Heights to Trump, who in his previous term as president banned travel from several mostly-Muslim countries. Harris lost the presidential vote in two Detroit-area cities with large Arab American populations after months of warnings from local Democrats about the Biden-Harris administration's unwavering support for Israel in the war in Gaza. Some said they backed Trump after he ...

Trump's win will not affect migration of skilled workers: V Chauthaiwale

Almost all minorities, except maybe the Arab Americans, are shifting slowly towards the Republicans, Chauthaiwale said

What a Trump victory means for tech world: Boost for crypto, Musk

Another Trump presidency will be good for crypto and Elon Musk, but every big tech company may not benefit

US election results 2024: Here's a list of states won by Trump & Kamala

US election results: Fox News has already called the election in Donald Trump's favour, though other major networks have yet to make an official projection

Democrat Josh Stein wins N Carolina governor's race defeating Robinson

Robinson advocated for bringing back slavery for some people and posted "gratuitously sexual and lewd" posts on the site, CNN reported, comments the Republican has denied making

US elections 2024 highlights: Former President Barack Obama urges Americans to go out and vote

Donald Trump or Kamala Harris? Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump each need at least 270 electoral votes. Catch updates on US elections here