The Trump administration plans to accept a luxury Boeing 747-8 plane as a donation from the Qatari royal family that will be upgraded to serve as Air Force One, which would make it one of the biggest foreign gifts ever received by the U.S. government, several American officials with knowledge of the matter said. The … Read more
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine responded cautiously on Sunday morning to Russia’s offer of direct talks, calling it a “positive sign” but insisting that President Vladimir V. Putin must agree to an immediate cease-fire first. Mr. Zelensky’s comments came hours after Mr. Putin rejected a cease-fire and instead proposed that direct talks between representatives of … Read more
The prices of strollers and car seats are skyrocketing as companies race to adjust to President Trump’s tariff policies. Federal support for a major campaign to promote safe infant sleep habits appears to have been cut. Measles outbreaks are terrifying parents of young children, even as the nation’s health secretary undermines vaccines. The Trump administration’s … Read more
Congress MP Manish Tewari on Sunday slammed US President Donald Trump over his proposal to mediate between India and Pakistan over the Kashmir issue and said Kashmir is not a “biblical 100-year-old conflict”, but only started 78 years ago. Also Read: India to beef up security at vital IMD installations in Srinagar and Leh In … Read more
US Presdient Donald Trump (PTI photo) NEW DELHI: United States President Donald Trump on Sunday said he would see if, “after a ‘thousand years,’ a solution can be arrived at concerning Kashmir”. Trump’s remark comes a day after India agreed to Pakistan’s call for a ceasefire amid military action that Indian armed forces took in … Read more
As a conflict between India and Pakistan escalated, Vice President JD Vance told Fox News on Thursday that it was “fundamentally none of our business.” The United States could counsel both sides to back away, he suggested, but this was not America’s fight. Yet within 24 hours, Mr. Vance and Marco Rubio, in his first … Read more
Donald Trump is taking his time naming a permanent replacement for his National Security Adviser. But he’s already sent a clear message: the job once held by figures like Henry Kissinger and Zbigniew Brzezinski won’t matter in his administration nearly as much. Even before he removed Mike Waltz from the post on May 1, the … Read more
President Trump is harnessing the Republican Party’s all-encompassing deference to him to exert even greater control over the G.O.P. big-money world, which had long been one of the party’s final remaining redoubts of Trump skepticism. For years, the super PACs allied with House and Senate Republicans have been some of the most powerful and independent … Read more
Federal officials arrested Ras J. Baraka, the mayor of Newark, on Friday after a confrontation that also involved three members of Congress at a new immigration detention facility that is expected to play a central role in President Trump’s mass deportation effort. Mr. Baraka, a Democrat who is running for governor, was taken to a … Read more
President Trump on Friday publicly waffled over whether Republicans in Congress should embrace a tax increase on the rich, underscoring his differences with members of his own party on what should be in a megabill to carry out his agenda. Mr. Trump on Wednesday had privately urged Speaker Mike Johnson to create a higher tax … Read more