WASHINGTON—President Trump spent an enormous amount of political capital pushing for Senate confirmation of Pete Hegseth, who was pilloried over his personal problems and lack of experience running a major organization. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth at the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday. Now, Trump is leaning on his unconventional, made-for-TV defense secretary to sell his war…
WASHINGTON/BEIJING: The U.S. military campaign against Iran has put Chinese leader Xi Jinping on the back foot ahead of an expected summit with U.S. President Donald Trump, who for the second time in as many months has turned America’s military against one of Beijing’s close partners. Trump is set to arrive in Beijing at the…
The fight between the US government and Anthropic is no longer a contract negotiation dispute. It is a clash over killer robots and mass surveillance – and over who decides how artificial intelligence is used in war. At the centre is a blunt question: can a private AI company refuse to let its systems be…
WASHINGTON—President Trump told a national audience on Tuesday that he had unleashed a new age of economic prosperity. One thing he didn’t say: I feel your pain. President Trump delivering the first State of the Union address of his second term. At the core of Trump’s State of the Union address was a calculation that…
Updated on: Feb 24, 2026 10:51:49 AM IST Iran-US Tensions LIVE Updates: On Monday, Iranians reportedly received an anonymous text message saying, “The US President is a man of action. Wait and see”. Iran-US tensions LIVE updates: India issued an advisory on Monday, February 23, asking all its citizens currently in Iran to leave the…
Thousands of people in Iran reportedly got an alert on their phones on Monday that said, “The US President is a man of action. Wait and see,” in Persian, from an anonymous number. US President Donald Trump has threatened to attack Iran over its refusal to abandon its nuclear programme. (Reuters File Photo) This escalation,…
Updated on: Feb 18, 2026 1:12:54 PM IST Despite progress in the talks between the US and Iran, tensions continue to linger. US Iran tensions live updates: Amid the tensions between the US and Iran, the US military has moved over 50 fighter jets to the Middle East. As per reports, this development comes just…
The Don talks big in a constant endeavour to cut others to sizeSize matters for Donald Trump. He likes to break things — be it historic buildings at home or deep relationships abroad— to build bigger beautiful edifices matching his colossal ego.True to the pattern, forgetting the heady days of ‘Howdy Modi’ and ‘Namaste Trump,’…
Electricity costs are climbing nearly everywhere in the United States. But, in recent months, the Trump administration has framed the problem as one impacting only blue states. While several blue states like California, Massachusetts and Hawaii do indeed have some of the highest electricity rates in the country, federal data shows that electricity prices are…
When the Don blinks, it’s only to wink at the system to get his way time and againPOTUS was adamant that he wasn’t sleeping on the job like his predecessor “Sleepy Joe” when he appeared to nod off during a Cabinet meeting in December. He had only closed his eyes because “it got pretty boring,…