Republican Representative Keith Self of Texas ripped a procedural vote taking place on the much-debated financial package dubbed the “big, beautiful bill” by President Donald Trump Wednesday night, saying he’s a “no,” as more talks are vital. Newsweek reached out to House Speaker Mike Johnson‘s office via email for comment. Why It Matters The attempted…
By NIKKI SCHWAB, CHIEF CAMPAIGN CORRESPONDENT FOR DAILYMAIL.COM IN RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA First lady Melania Trump is skipping President Donald Trump‘s trip to the Middle East – but the president brought an entourage of female staffers with him to Saudi Arabia’s capital of Riyadh Tuesday. Following the lead Melania set when she visited the kingdom…
new video loaded: New I.O.C. President Is the First Woman and First African to Hold Role transcript Back transcript New I.O.C. President Is the First Woman and First African to Hold Role Kirsty Coventry was elected after the first round of secret voting by the International Olympic Committee’s membership. As a 9-year-old girl, I never…
By GEOFF EARLE, DEPUTY U.S. POLITICAL EDITOR Published: 18:22 GMT, 21 February 2025 | Updated: 19:01 GMT, 21 February 2025 Donald Trump‘s Attorney General Pam Bondi hinted she plans to release bombshell files on deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, suggesting the list of his his shrouded clients could soon see daylight. Bondi said the potentially…
President Donald Trump said he will meet Vladimir Putin to negotiate peace in Ukraine and their first sit-down will likely be in Saudi Arabia. He made the announcement in the Oval Office after holding a 90-minute phone call with the Russian leader. Trump said: ‘We expect that he’ll come here, and I’ll go there, and we’re…
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates praised the world’s richest man Elon Musk’s work, saying he “admires a lot he’s done”, but admitted that the Tesla chief’s comments on European politics “surprised” him. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), Bill Gates reflected on his childhood, autism and early start of Silicon valley tech juggernaut…
President Joe Biden took a thinly-veiled swipe at Nancy Pelosi as he got behind a ban on congressional stock trading. Biden waded into the controversial issue despite staying out of it in the past, leaving it to lawmakers to decide their own rules. But in a new declaration he said: ‘Nobody in the Congress should be able…
new video loaded: Christopher Wray to Resign as F.B.I. Director transcript Back transcript Christopher Wray to Resign as F.B.I. Director The director said he was intending to step down in January at the end of the Biden administration. After weeks of careful thought, I’ve decided the right thing for the Bureau is for me to…
Russian President Vladimir Putin praised US President-elect Donald Trump as “intelligent” and “experienced” while speaking to reporters on Thursday. “As far as I can imagine, the newly elected president is an intelligent and already quite experienced person,” Putin told reporters in Kazakhstan, according to CNN. He added that he’s optimistic the Trump administration will be…
Elon Musk‘s $1 million-a-day giveaway to registered voters does not choose winners at random; instead, he picks people he believes would be good spokespeople for his pro-Trump group, a lawyer for the billionaire said on Monday. Musk lawyer Chris Gober was trying to persuade a Pennsylvania judge that the giveaway was not an “illegal…