Several countries backing President Donald Trump’s proposed “Board of Peace” to stabilise Gaza are also facing restrictions on immigrant visa processing by the US State Department. Trump signed the charter establishing the body — which is intended to help resolve international conflicts — on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. […]
US President Donald Trump has ordered the country’s withdrawal from 66 international organisations, which the White House says operate against America’s national interests. Of the organisations listed, 31 are affiliated with the United Nations (UN), while 35 are non-UN bodies. The directive was signed on Wednesday following a review earlier this year in which […]
The U.S. regulatory landscape for artificial intelligence entered a new phase in January 2025 after President Donald Trump signed an executive order repealing the Biden administration’s AI safety framework. The move, announced on January 23, revoked Executive Order 14110, which had required federal agencies to assess risks and introduce guardrails for AI deployment. In its […]
By Godwin Anyebe Emerging-market stocks and currencies are heading for their best week since early March amid optimism over China’s economy and US President Donald Trump’s tariff reprieves. With most markets closed for Easter, the MSCI Emerging Markets Index rose on Friday, taking its weekly advance to 2.2%. Currencies of commodity-linked countries, including South Africa, […]
President Donald Trump has finally stepped aside to allow Joe Biden’s transition to the White House begin but vowed to ‘keep up the good fight’. Mr Trump insisted he will keep challenging his election loss but said he had given permission for the chief of the General Services Administration (GSA) to formally start working with […]
President Donald Trump expressed renewed confidence Wednesday that a viable Covid-19 vaccine would be ready by October, directly contradicting a top administration health expert and facing fierce criticism from his Democratic election rival Joe Biden. READ ALSO: President Donald Trump nominated for Nobel Peace Prize Daily Times Nigeria gathered that Trump sowed confusion about the […]
President Donald Trump on Wednesday fired back angrily at his predecessor Barack Obama after being branded an unserious president who had put US democracy in danger, Daily Times Nigeria learnt. READ ALSO: “Trump is not serious with US presidency”… Trump told reporters Obama was an “ineffective” and “terrible” leader. “I see the horror that he’s […]
U.S. rapper, Kanye West has called for a christian version of Tik Tok, ‘Jesus Tok,’ after ban by President Donald Trump. Kanye west made this known on his twitter handle recently. West who is also the independent presidential candidate for the November elections, explained the importance of having the Chinese owned app to portray good […]
Michelle Obama has slammed U.S. president Donald Trump’s leadership qualities and ineffective way of handling the coronavirus pandemic. Obama said this in her virtual address to the Democratic National Convention (DNC). She went on to say her strategy had always been to ‘go high’ when the opposition ‘go low’, but emphasised this did not mean […]
U.S. President Donald Trump threatened Wednesday to shutter social media platforms after Twitter for the first time acted against his false tweets, prompting the enraged Republican to double down on unsubstantiated claims and conspiracy theories. Trump will sign an executive order “pertaining to social media” on Thursday, aides to the president said, without offering more […]
Six days before the 2016 presidential election, two Pennsylvania college students had an idea: They could try to get Donald Trump’s tax returns, which the then-candidate refused to release and which had become an election issue. Andrew Harris and Justin Hiemstra swiped into a school computer lab and tried to download Trump’s filings. Farmer 32, bags two-year imprisonment for housebreaking What began […]
On the day the House Judiciary Committee approved impeachment articles against him, President Donald Trump claimed it is strengthening him politically. And with those articles headed to the House floor next week, he appears to be warming to a quick election-year Senate trial. All 2020 Democrats threatening to skip next debate in LA In brief […]
The first public hearings in the impeachment inquiry, against President Donald Trump, are set to begin on Wednesday, as Democrats step up their public campaign over what they see as an abuse of power by the White House. Lawmakers will question two career diplomats, who have expressed concern that Trump linked aid to Ukraine to […]
President Trump has confirmed that the US will definitely withdraw from the Paris climate agreement. He made the announcement at an energy conference in Pittsburgh on a stage flanked by men in hard hats. He described the accord as a bad deal and said his pro fossil fuel policies had made the US an energy […]
US Democratic lawmakers have demanded documents from the White House as part of their impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump. The documents relate to a call between Mr Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on 25 July. In the call, Mr Trump pushed Mr Zelensky to investigate his leading Democratic political rival, Joe Biden. The […]
The United States Democratic Party has begun a formal impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump over allegations that he pressured a foreign power to damage a political rival. In a statement on Tuesday, top Democrat, Nancy Pelosi, said Mr Trump had betrayed his oath of office and committed “a violation of the law”. She called […]
The widow of a soldier who died in Niger earlier this month says a Facebook post circulating under her name defending US President Donald Trump is fake. Myeshia Johnson says the post criticizing Congresswoman Frederica Wilson – who has been in a war of words with Mr Trump – was written by someone claiming to […]
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday that indefinitely suspends admissions for Syrian refugees and limits the flow of other refugees into the United States by instituting what the President has called “extreme vetting” of immigrants. Titled “Protection Of The Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry Into The United States,” the executive order would start […]