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Secret Service director touts changes following Trump assassination attempt

The acting director of the Secret Service said Thursday that the agency is reorganizing and reimagining its culture and how it operates following an assassination attempt against Donald Trump on the campaign trail. Members of a bipartisan House task force investigating the attempt on Trump's life pushed Ronald Rowe on how the agency's staffers could have missed such blatant security vulnerabilities leading up to the July 13 shooting at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. At one point, the hearing devolved into a shouting match between Rowe and a Republican congressman. Rowe promised accountability for what he called the agency's abject failure to secure the rally in Butler, where a gunman opened fire from a nearby building. Trump was wounded in the ear, one rallygoer was killed and two others were wounded. Another assassination attempt two months later contributed to the agency's troubles. That gunman waited for hours for Trump to appear at his golf course in Florida, but a Secret ...

Trump seeks to dismiss Georgia election case, citing presidential immunity

President-elect Donald Trump is trying to get the Georgia election interference case against him dismissed, claiming the state's courts will not have jurisdiction over him once he returns to the White House next month. The Georgia case against Trump and others is mostly on hold pending a pretrial appeal of an order allowing prosecutor Fani Willis to remain on the case despite what defense attorneys say is a conflict of interest. Trump's attorneys on Wednesday filed a notice with the Georgia Court of Appeals saying a sitting president is completely immune from indictment or any criminal process, state or federal. The filing asks the court of appeals to consider before he becomes president next month whether it has jurisdiction to continue to hear the case. It says the court should conclude that it and the trial court lack jurisdiction as the continued indictment and prosecution of President Trump by the State of Georgia are unconstitutional. Trump's lawyers ask that the appeals court

Netanyahu thanks Donald Trump for warning Hamas to release hostages

Trump made it clear that those responsible for the hostage situation would face severe consequences

Asia to benefit from cheaper Canadian, Mexican oil if Trump imposes tariffs

The United States accounts for 61 per cent and 56 per cent of crude exports from Canada and Mexico

Trump names Jay Bhattacharya as Director of National Institutes of Health

Bhattacharya said he will reform scientific institutions so that they're 'worthy of trust' again

Donald Trump's trade chief pick advocates 'strategic decoupling' from China

Greer calls for Congress to revoke Beijing's permanent normal trade relations status and impose new, higher tariffs

Here's what Trump 2.0 could mean for trade, migrants, and climate change

Trump on Monday pledged to impose tariffs on the United States' top three trading partners including a 25 per cent tariff on all products from Mexico and Canada

Democrats to choose new party leader shortly after Trump's inauguration

The chair of the Democratic National Committee informed party leaders on Monday that the DNC will choose his successor in February, an election that will speak volumes about how the party wants to present itself during four more years of Donald Trump in the White House. Jaime Harrison, in a letter to members of the party's powerful Rules and Bylaws Committee, outlined the process of how the party will elect its new chair. Harrison said in the letter that the committee will host four candidate forums some in person and some virtually in January, with the final election on February 1 during the party's winter meeting in National Harbour, Maryland. The race to become the next chair of the Democratic National Committee, while an insular party affair, will come days after Trump is inaugurated for a second term. Democrats' selection of a leader after Vice President Kamala Harris' 2024 loss will be a key starting point as the party starts to move forward, including addressing any ...

Musk's budget crusade may cause constitutional clash in Trump's 2nd term

When Elon Musk first suggested a new effort to cut the size of government, Donald Trump didn't seem to take it seriously. His eventual name for the idea sounded like a joke too. It would be called the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, a reference to an online meme featuring a surprised-looking dog from Japan. But now that Trump has won the election, Musk's fantasy is becoming reality, with the potential to spark a constitutional clash over the balance of power in Washington. Trump put Musk, the world's richest man, and Vivek Ramaswamy, an entrepreneur and former Republican presidential candidate, in charge of the new department, which is really an outside advisory committee that will work with people inside the government to reduce spending and regulations. This week, Musk and Ramaswamy said they would encourage Trump to make cuts by refusing to spend money allocated by Congress, a process known as impounding. The proposal goes against a 1974 law intended to prevent futu

Not reconsidering Matt Gaetz nomination for attorney general, says Trump

The nomination generated some skepticism given that the former congressman, first elected in 2016, was under investigation

Donald Trump names TV doctor Mehmet Oz as medicare, medicaid chief

During the Covid-19 pandemic, Oz became an informal health adviser to Trump, then serving his first White House term

Prosecutors oppose tossing Trump's conviction, may allow sentencing delay

New York prosecutors oppose any effort to dismiss President-elect Donald Trump's hush money conviction but expressed openness on Tuesday to delaying sentencing until after his second term. In a court filing, the Manhattan district attorney's office said Trump's forthcoming presidency isn't grounds for dropping a case that was already tried. But, citing "the need to balance competing constitutional interests", prosecutors said "consideration must be given" to shelving the case until after he's out of office. Prosecutors said they're OK delaying Trump's sentencing -- which had been set for November 26 -- while his lawyers fight to get the case tossed out. Judge Juan M Merchan has not said when he will rule on the fate of the first criminal conviction of a former, and now future, US commander-in-chief. But with the sentencing schedule now effectively on hold, Trump's lawyers are pursuing multiple legal paths to try to dispose of the case -- an effort that could reach the Supreme Court

Trump interviewing FBI chief candidates, Vance says in later deleted post

President-elect Donald Trump is interviewing candidates for the role of FBI director, incoming Vice-President JD Vance said on Tuesday in the clearest indication yet that the new administration is looking to replace current director Christopher Wray. In a social media post that was later deleted, Vance defended his absence from a Senate vote at which a judicial nominee of President Joe Biden was confirmed by saying that at the time of the vote, "I was meeting with President Trump to interview multiple positions for our government, including for FBI Director." "I tend to think it's more important to get an FBI director who will dismantle the deep state than it is for Republicans to lose a vote 49-46 rather than 49-45," he added on X. Vance was referring to the Senate vote on Monday to confirm Embry J Kidd, a Biden nominee to the US Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, a vote that he and several other Republican senators missed. An FBI spokesperson declined to comment, and the Trum

Here's all you need to know about Trump's cabinet pick, who's in running

Here are the early picks and top contenders for some of the key posts

Xi Jinping's olive branch to Trump comes with warning on China red lines

China's leader took Saturday's meeting as a chance to spell out his approach toward Trump

Donald Trump's team seeking to ease US rules for self-driving vehicles

If new rules enable cars without human controls, that would directly benefit Elon Musk

Muslims who voted for Donald Trump upset by his pro-Israel cabinet pick

Muslim support for Trump helped him win Michigan and may have factored into other swing state wins

'Democrats used human rights as political tool to win over Hindu-Americans'

Indian Americans are working to reach out to the new Trump administration and the Congress next year to seek action against the Bangladeshi regime, including imposing economic sanctions, an influential community leader has said. Encouraged by the recent statement of President-elect Donald Trump on Bangladesh, Dr Bharat Barai, an Indian American physician, exuded confidence that Trump would act against the South Asian nation over the persecution of the Hindu minority after he is sworn in as the 47th president of the United States. He (Trump) has made a bold statement about the persecution of Bangladeshi Hindus and the desecration of Hindu temples, Barai told PTI in an interview. "He's a bold person who might consider economic sanctions if the situation doesn't improve," he added. In Washington to attend the annual Diwali celebrations at the US Capitol, which was attended by over two dozen US lawmakers and Indian Americans from across the country, Barai said community members are ...

Donald Trump names young Karoline Leavitt as White House press secretary

US President-elect Donald Trump on Friday named Karoline Leavitt as White House Press Secretary. Leavitt, 27, would replace Karine Jean-Pierre as the White House Press Secretary on January 20, 2025 when Trump takes oath as the 47th President of the United States. She was the Trump Campaign's National Press Secretary and has previously served in the Trump White House as Assistant Press Secretary. Announcing her nomination, Trump said, "Leavitt did a phenomenal job as the National Press Secretary on my Historic Campaign, and I am pleased to announce she will serve as White House Press Secretary." "Karoline is smart, tough, and has proven to be a highly effective communicator," the president-elect said. "I have the utmost confidence she will excel at the podium, and help deliver our message to the American People as we, Make America Great Again," he added. Among other nominations announced by Trump, Steven Cheung will return to the White House as Assistant to the President and Direct

Trump's Pentagon pick Pete Hegseth was flagged as possible 'Insider Threat'

Pete Hegseth, the Army National Guard veteran and Fox News host nominated by Donald Trump to lead the Department of Defense, was flagged as a possible Insider Threat by a fellow service member due to a tattoo on his bicep that's associated with white supremacist groups. Hegseth, who has downplayed the role of military members and veterans in the January 6, 2021, attack and railed against the Pentagon's subsequent efforts to address extremism in the ranks, has said he was pulled by his District of Columbia National Guard unit from guarding Joe Biden's January 2021 inauguration. He's said he was unfairly identified as an extremist due to a cross tattoo on his chest. This week, however, a fellow Guard member who was the unit's security manager and on an anti-terrorism team at the time, shared with The Associated Press an email he sent to the unit's leadership flagging a different tattoo reading Deus Vult that's been used by white supremacists, concerned it was an indication of an Inside