WASHINGTON: US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Wednesday (Jan 29) that the Trump administration has revoked a decision that would have protected roughly 600,000 people from Venezuela from deportation. On “Fox and Friends,” Noem said that she reversed the decision made by her successor, Alejandro Mayorkas, in the waning daysContinue Reading
Elon Musk is only one week into his role in President Donald Trump’s new administration, but the US federal government is already rolling out the Twitter playbook to manage its spending and personnel. Just like Musk did when he took over the social media platform, Trump’s team is attempting toContinue Reading
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump’s administration on Tuesday (Jan 28) offered federal workers the opportunity to leave their jobs in return for eight months’ severance, according to a memo sent to staff seen by AFP. The proposal, lauded by Trump advisor Elon Musk in a post on X as aContinue Reading
Altogether, around 10 attempts to change the gulf’s name have been reverted over the past week on OpenStreetMap. Several contributors have contended that OSM should wait for common usage in society to change before making an edit to the main name of the gulf. “OSM’s primary goal is to reflectContinue Reading
Centibillionaire Elon Musk’s takeover of the former US Digital Service—now the United States DOGE Service—has been widely publicized and sanctioned by one of President Donald Trump’s many executive orders. But WIRED reporting shows that Musk’s influence extends even further, and into an even more consequential government agency. Sources within theContinue Reading
The National Council of Nonprofits, the American Public Health Association, Main Street Alliance and SAGE earlier on Tuesday sued over the directive issued by the acting head of the US Office of Management and Budget on Monday. It had been set to take effect at 2200GMT on Tuesday. The groupsContinue Reading
With the unprecedented wave of executive orders signed in the first week of his second administration, U.S. President Donald Trump dealt a devastating blow to an already embattled group of American allies: Afghans. Among the executive orders signed on the day of Trump’s inauguration was an immediate and total freezeContinue Reading
DOHA: Qatar reaffirmed its support for a two-state solution on Tuesday (Jan 28) after US President Donald Trump repeated his call to move Palestinians from Gaza to Egypt or Jordan. Foreign ministry spokesman Majed al-Ansari did not reveal details of conversations with US officials, but said Qatar often didn’t see “eyeContinue Reading
This raises fundamental questions. “If they are going to designate traffickers as narco-terrorists, will they also include the Americans who are part of these networks? Because we are not just talking about the famous drug cartels, but also trafficking networks, money laundering, arms smuggling and other structures, many of whichContinue Reading
Mere moments after his swearing in Monday, President Donald Trump made a proclamation to attendees of his inauguration: “It shall henceforth be the policy of the United States government that there are only two genders: male and female.” Trump then signed an executive order disparaging what the White House calledContinue Reading
