On Wednesday afternoon, Pete Hegseth sat down with Iowa senator Joni Ernst for a conversation in her office on Capitol Hill. Hegseth, the first choice of Donald Trump for defence secretary and a self-described ‘warfighter’, had spent the day on what many believe is an uphill battle to persuade Republican senators that they can overlook…
Tesla CEO Elon Musk, on Saturday, praised India’s electoral system for its remarkable ability to deliver results in a single day. Musk’s comments came as a response to an X post that shared a news article with the headline, “How India Counted 640 Million Votes in a Day.” The post, which also carried the caption,…
Elon Musk has reignited his long-running feud with Jeff Bezos by claiming the Amazon founder had urged people to sell stock in the Tesla boss’s firms because Donald Trump was going to lose. Writing on X, the world’s richest man said: “Just learned tonight at Mar-a-Lago that Jeff Bezos was telling everyone that @realDonaldTrump would…
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…
US President-elect Donald Trump announced that Elon Musk will lead the ‘Department of Government Efficiency’ – a position Trump hinted at during his campaign trail. Musk will head the department alongside Indian-American entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy. “Together, these two wonderful Americans will pave the way for my Administration to dismantle Government Bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful…
Xi Jinping has put the fate of his country and regime in the hands of others, especially the next leader of the country he considers an enemy, the United States. Yes, China’s ruler, who many consider the world’s most powerful figure, is, in reality, helpless. How did that happen? In short, Xi did it to…
The cryptocurrency industry has become an astonishingly effective Washington lobbying force in recent years. Three political action committees, Fairshake, Defend American Jobs and Protect Progress, spent more than $133m supporting both Republican and Democrat candidates who voiced pro-crypto views during the campaign. As of Monday morning, 52 out of 56 House and Senate candidates backed…
Since the primary race ended in March, Ms Haley has taken a job as the Walter P. Stern Chair at the Hudson Institute, a Right-leaning Washington think tank. In May, she used her inaugural address to criticise isolationists in the Republican Party ─ although she did not name Mr Trump. “They believe if we leave…
For Trump, the performance of the stock market is seen as validation of his own achievements, and he will not want it to stumble. He needn’t worry, at least for now. History shows that financial and business deregulation is like rocket fuel for speculative stock market activity, and with more money in people’s pockets from…
Iran’s foreign ministry on Saturday (Nov 9) described as “totally unfounded” US accusations of a plot by Tehran to assassinate president-elect Donald Trump. The foreign ministry “rejects allegations that Iran is implicated in an assassination attempt targeting former or current American officials,” spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said in a statement after US prosecutors announced charges over…