Washington: Donald Trump’s rumbling conflict with the judiciary burst into open confrontation on Tuesday as Supreme Court Justice John Roberts issued a rare public rebuke of the US president over his call for the impeachment of a federal court judge. “For more than two centuries, it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate … Read more
US President Donald Trump. Washington: The White House said Monday it was “wholly confident” of winning in court after a judge ordered a hearing over the explusion of alleged members of a Venezuelan gang under wartime legislation. “This administration acted within the confines of the law,” President Donald Trump’s Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters. … Read more
Boston: US authorities on Monday said they deported a Rhode Island doctor to Lebanon last week after discovering “sympathetic photos and videos” of the former longtime leader of Hezbollah and militants in her cell phone’s deleted items folder. Alawieh had also told agents that while in Lebanon she attended the funeral last month of Hezbollah’s … Read more
Washington: The White House on Monday rejected a call by a French member of the European parliament for the return of the Statue of Liberty, saying that France would be “speaking German” without US help in World War II. “My advice to that unnamed, low level French politician would be to remind them that it’s … Read more
Washington: President Donald Trump on Monday declared he will hold Iran directly responsible for any future attacks by Yemen’s Tehran-backed Huthi rebels, who have targeted multiple US and other foreign ships in the Red Sea. “Every shot fired by the Houthis will be looked upon, from this point forward, as being a shot fired from … Read more
A 31-year-old US woman allegedly stabbed her newborn baby to death with a metal letter opener and then stuffed the body in a garbage bag. Citing an arrest warrant filed in the case, People reported that the woman, identified as An T. Ngo from South Carolina, gave birth to a boy on March 7 in … Read more
Washington: US President Donald Trump on Thursday said that Russian President Vladimir Putin had made “a very promising statement” on a possible Ukraine ceasefire, but added that “it wasn’t complete.” Trump’s comments came after Putin said he backed the idea of a 30-day ceasefire but had serious questions about it that he wanted to discuss … Read more
Washington: US President Donald Trump on Thursday reiterated his desire to annex the autonomous territory of Greenland from Denmark in the interest of “international security.” “I think it will happen,” Trump told reporters at the White House alongside NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, when asked about his vision for the annexation. He pointed at Rutte … Read more
Washington: US President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened to impose 200-percent tariffs on wine, champagne and other alcoholic products from France and other European Union countries in retaliation against the bloc’s planned levies on US-produced whiskey. “If this Tariff is not removed immediately, the U.S. will shortly place a 200% Tariff on all WINES, CHAMPAGNES, … Read more
Washington: US President Donald Trump has been condemned by Jewish and Muslim groups for using the term “Palestinian” as a slur in an attack on the country’s highest-ranking elected Jewish official. In comments to reporters in the Oval Office on Wednesday, Trump said Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer had “become a Palestinian.” “He used to be … Read more
Washington: The potential scale of President Donald Trump’s efforts to shrink the U.S. federal government could become clearer on Thursday, the deadline for government agencies to submit plans for a second wave of mass layoffs and to slash their budgets. Agencies ranging from the Treasury Department to the Justice Department are required to submit their … Read more
Bengaluru: Meta Platforms said on Thursday it would begin testing community notes on its social media platforms in the United States from March 18, more than two months after announcing the end of its fact-checking program. (This story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)