Karoline Leavitt said that Trump spoke to the Sultan of Oman, Haitham bin Tariq al-Said, who helped facilitate these talks.
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University's $2.2 bn funding frozen for defying Prez's campus demands
The taskforce, which meets each week to supposedly discuss discrimination on college campus and reviewer grants, was ostensibly set up to counter anti-Semitism in universities
In a fast-changing world, India's focus needs to be on pushing forward a broader, comprehensive trade and investment reform agenda
Stock trading jumped in the first three months of the year as investors rejigged their portfolios during a period of heightened uncertainty over President Donald Trump's tariffs
When asked about the impact of such tariffs on the domestic industry, Puri said it will be difficult to say how it will evolve, but India will be much better placed in this
India and the US have finalised terms for the first phase of their trade deal, aiming to boost bilateral trade to $500 billion by 2030 and deepen strategic economic ties
Businesses that had seen demand dry up just weeks ago are now overwhelmed with urgent shipment orders from US buyers
Harvard faces a $2.2 billion freeze in federal funds after rejecting Trump administration demands to end DEI programme, and change admissions policies
Janet Yellen slams Trump tariffs as 'unclear', warns of trade decoupling, but sees no Fed intervention needed yet despite market turmoil
JD Vance dropped Ohio State's national championship trophy during a White House photo op, later joking, 'I didn't want anyone after Ohio State to get the trophy so I decided to break it'
American officials have not said where the talks would be held
The administration urged Harvard to adopt merit-based admissions, leadership reforms, and audit diversity views among students, faculty, and staff in a letter sent on Friday
The Liberty Justice Center filed the suit for five small companies, including a New York wine distributor, Vermont women's cycling brand, and a Virginia producer of educational kits and instruments
The proposal, which was presented to the State Department last week and is still in a highly preliminary phase, is not expected to pass muster with either the department's leadership or Congress
Trump administration officials emphasised that Abrego Garcia, who was sent to a notorious gang prison in El Salvador, was a citizen of that country and that the US has no say in his future
In lawsuits against the Department of Homeland Security, students have argued the government lacked justification to cancel their visa or terminate their legal status
The Trump administration's plan to transfer the border zone to military control aims to bypass a federal law restricting US troops from engaging in domestic law enforcement on American soil
The next meeting is expected to take place on Saturday in Rome, according to a source in the Italian government