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With TikTok ban looming, Trump signals deal will come before Apr 5 deadline

As the deadline to strike a deal over TikTok approaches this week, President Donald Trump has signalled that he is confident his administration can broker an agreement with ByteDance, the social media app's China-based parent company. Speaking with reporters on Air Force One late Sunday, Trump said that there's tremendous interest in Tiktok." He added that he would like to see TikTok remain alive. The president's comments came less than one week before an April deadline requiring ByteDance to divest or face a ban in the United States. We have a lot of potential buyers, Trump said. Trump also said that the administration is dealing with China who also want it because they may have something to do with it. Last week, Trump said he would consider a reduction in tariffs on China if that country's government approves a sale of TikTok's operations in the US. Questions about the fate of the popular video sharing app have continued to linger since a law requiring ByteDance's divestment too

Trump aides weigh 20% tariff plan as nervous world awaits trade war

Trump has for weeks put a circle around April 2 as a "Liberation Day" to impose an array of new tariffs that could upend the global trade system, but has provided few details

CEO murder case: Trump admin to seek death penalty for Luigi Mangione

US Attorney General Pam Bondi said that she would instruct interim US attorney for the Southern District of New York to pursue the death penalty if Luigi Mangione is convicted of murder charges

'JFK' director to testify to Congress on newly released assassination files

Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone, whose 1991 film JFK portrayed President John F Kennedy's assassination as the work of a shadowy government conspiracy, is set to testify to Congress on Tuesday about thousands of newly released government documents surrounding the killing. Scholars say the files that President Donald Trump ordered to be released showed nothing undercutting the conclusion that a lone gunman killed Kennedy. Many documents were previously released but contained newly removed redactions, including Social Security numbers, angering people whose personal information was disclosed. The first hearing of the House Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets comes five decades after the Warren Commission investigation concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald, a 24-year-old former Marine, acted alone in fatally shooting Kennedy as his motorcade finished a parade route in downtown Dallas on Nov 22, 1963. Republican Rep Anna Paulina Luna of Florida, who chairs the task forc

Trump aide claims tariffs will raise $6 trillion, boost US economy

He echoed the Trump administration's stance that the tariffs will not be paid by American consumers but by businesses in other countries or the countries themselves.

Nonprofit groups, Democrats sue Trump admin over election executive order

President Donald Trump's executive order seeking to overhaul the nation's elections faced its first legal challenges Monday as the Democratic National Committee and a pair of nonprofits filed two separate lawsuits calling it unconstitutional. The Campaign Legal Center and the State Democracy Defenders Fund brought the first lawsuit Monday afternoon. The DNC, the Democratic Governors Association, and Senate and House Democratic leaders followed soon after with a complaint of their own. Both lawsuits filed in the US District Court for the District of Columbia ask the court to block Trump's order and declare it illegal. The president's executive order is an unlawful action that threatens to uproot our tried-and-tested election systems and silence potentially millions of Americans, said Danielle Lang, senior director of voting rights at the DC-based Campaign Legal Center. It is simply not within the president's authority to set election rules by executive decree, especially when they ..

'Time for reciprocity': White House on India's 100% tariff on agri products

The remarks from White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt come a day before US President Donald Trump's proposed reciprocal tariffs come into effect

Donald Trump to visit Qatar, UAE, Saudi Arabia next month: White House

Asked if the trip will take place in May as reported, Trump responds, It could be next month, maybe a little bit later

US judge halts Trump admin plans to end legal protection for Venezuelans

A federal judge on Monday paused plans by the Trump administration to end temporary legal protection for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans, a week before they were scheduled to expire. The order by U.S. District Judge Edward Chen in San Francisco is a relief for 350,000 Venezuelans whose Temporary Protected Status was scheduled to expire April 7. The lawsuit was filed by lawyers for the National TPS Alliance and TPS holders across the country. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has also announced the end of TPS for an estimated 250,000 additional Venezuelans in September. Chen said in his ruling that the action by Noem threatens to: inflict irreparable harm on hundreds of thousands of persons whose lives, families, and livelihoods will be severely disrupted, cost the United States billions in economic activity, and injure public health and safety in communities throughout the United States. He said the government had failed to identify any real countervailing harm in ...

Trump finds fault with Putin, Zelenskyy as he pushes for deal to end war

President Donald Trump lashed out at both Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Sunday, expressing frustration with the Russian and Ukrainian leaders as he struggles to forge a truce to end the war. Although Trump insisted to reporters that we're making a lot of progress, he acknowledged that there's tremendous hatred between the two men, a fresh indication that negotiations may not produce the swift conclusion that he promised during the campaign. Trump began voicing his criticisms in an early morning interview with NBC News while he was at Mar-a-Lago, his private club in Florida. He said he was angry, pissed off that Putin questioned Zelenskyy's credibility. The Russian leader recently said that Zelenskyy lacks the legitimacy to sign a peace deal and suggested that Ukraine needed external governance. Trump said he would consider adding new sanctions on Russia, which already faces steep financial penalties, and using tariffs to undermine its oil exports. The Republican presid

Trump threatens to bomb Iran if it does not agree to nuclear deal

There's a chance that if they don't make a deal, that I will do secondary tariffs on them like I did four years ago, Trump said

Asia braces for historic test of export model from Trump's tariff threats

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in March that the reciprocal levies slated for April 2 will target the dirty 15 that have substantial trade flows and barriers with the US

When is Elon Musk planning to quit DOGE? Here's what Tesla chief said

Earlier this month, US President Donald Trump hinted that Elon Musk doesn't plan on continuing his role in DOGE for long

Most US Institute of Peace workers get late-night word of their mass firing

Most employees at the US Institute of Peace, a congressionally created and funded think tank now taken over by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, received email notices of their mass firing, the latest step in the Trump administration's government downsizing. The emails, sent to personal accounts because most staff members had lost access to the organization's system, began going out about 9 pm Friday, according to people familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of fear of reprisal. One former senior official at the institute said among those spared were several in the human resources department and a handful of overseas staffers who have until April 9 to return to the United States. The organization has about 300 people. Others retained for now are regional vice presidents who will be working with the staff in their areas to return to the US, according to one employee who was affected. An executive order last month from President Donal

Trump backs national security team, says no firings over Signal messages

President Donald Trump on Saturday made his clearest commitment to not fire anyone over an embarrassing accidental leak of his administration's plans for an airstrike against the Houthis in Yemen. "I don't fire people because of fake news and because of witch hunts, Trump said in an interview with NBC News' Kristen Welker. He also said that he had confidence in Mike Waltz, his national security adviser, and Pete Hegseth, his Pentagon chief. Waltz inadvertently added Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor of The Atlantic magazine, to a group text using the Signal encrypted messaging service where top officials were discussing plans to attack the Houthis. During the chat, Hegseth included details on how the strike would unfold before it took place. Afterwards, The Atlantic published an article on the internal exchange, shocking the national security establishment. Trump is eager to avoid repeating some of the turnover that characterized his first term. Mike Flynn, his first national security

Trump's new election order creates confusion before midterms in 2026

President Donald Trump's executive order seeking to change how US elections are run is creating uncertainty for state and local election officials and worries about voter confusion before the next federal election, the 2026 midterms. Election officials were already dealing with the loss of some cybersecurity assistance from the federal government and now face the potential for major changes that include a new voter registration requirement, decertification of certain voting systems and stricter ballot deadlines for many states. In Connecticut, Secretary of the State Stephanie Thomas is hopeful that ballot scanners the state just bought for USD 20 million will be acceptable under the executive order, but she worries about other states. It's not like states have millions and millions of dollars that they can just upgrade their election equipment every couple of years, said Thomas, a Democrat. Imagine people purchased new equipment and now it no longer can be used. There is no remedy f

Trump admin to formally end USAID, remaining employees to be terminated

By September 2, USAID's operations will have been substantially transferred to State or otherwise wound down, the notice stated

Trump administration pauses financial contributions to WTO: Report

The Trump administration is retreating from global institutions it sees as at odds with his "America First" economic policies

Vance, wife to visit US military post in Greenland amid diplomatic row

US Vice President JD Vance and his wife are due to visit an American military base in Greenland on Friday in a trip that was scaled back after an uproar by Greenlanders and Danes who were irked that the original itinerary was planned without consulting them. The couple's revised trip to the semi-autonomous Danish territory comes as relations between the US and the Nordic country have soured after U.S. President Donald Trump repeatedly suggested that the United States should in some form control the mineral-rich territory of Denmark a traditional US ally and NATO member. Friday's one-day visit to the US Space Force outpost at Pituffik, on the northwest coast of Greenland, has removed the risk of violating potential diplomatic taboos by sending a delegation to another country without an official invitation. It will also reduce the likelihood that the Vance and his wife will cross paths with residents angered by Trump's annexation announcements. Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen

Donald Trump directs Smithsonian sites to scrub content on race, gender

Trump in his second term has targeted diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives in the government and private sector, as well as at cultural institutions