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Trump's pick of Marco Rubio as America's top diplomat jolts Latin America

Growing up in Miami among Cuban exiles who fled Fidel Castro's revolution, Sen. Marco Rubio developed a deep hatred of communism. Now as President-elect Donald Trump's choice for America's top diplomat, he's set to bring that same ideological ammunition to reshaping US policy in Latin America. As the first Latino secretary of state, Rubio is expected to devote considerable attention to what has long been disparagingly referred to as Washington's backyard. The top Republican on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and a longtime member of the Foreign Relations Committee, he's leveraged his knowledge and unmatched personal relationships to drive US policy in the region for years. For decades since the end of the Cold War, Latin America has faded from the US foreign policy agenda even as US adversaries like Russia, Iran and especially China have made deep inroads. If confirmed, the Florida Republican is likely to end the neglect. But Rubio's reputation as a national security ha

Trump will pick up from where he left off with India: Ex-admin official

US president-elect Donald Trump, who enjoys very good relationship with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, is expected to build on the progress made during his first term and continue strengthening ties with India, his South Asia point-person at the White House during his first term has said. Speaking to PTI in an interview, Lisa Curtis, who served as deputy assistant to president Trump and as National Security Council senior director for South and Central Asia from 2017 to 2021, also said she expected the same bumps for India and the US, as in Trump's first term, including tariff, dependence on Russia over arms supply and oil purchase from Iran. "I think that President (elect) Trump will pick up where he left off with India. He clearly has good feelings, goodwill toward India, and I really see this as an opportunity to just continue building the relationship and really solidifying that partnership," Curtis said. During Trump's first term (2017-2021), there was an "elevation of the ...

US Senate democrats rush to confirm judges before Trump takes office

The Senate voted 51-44 in favor of her becoming a US district court judge in Illinois

Here are people Trump has picked for key White House positions so far

President-elect Donald Trump is starting to fill key posts in his second administration, putting an emphasis so far on aides and allies who were his strongest backers during the 2024 campaign. Here's a look at who he's selected so far. Susie Wiles, chief of staff Wiles, 67, was a senior adviser to Trump's 2024 presidential campaign and its de facto manager. Wiles has a background in Florida politics. She helped Ron DeSantis win his first race for Florida governor. Six years later, she was key to Trump's defeat of him in the 2024 Republican primary. Wiles' hire was Trump's first major decision as president-elect and one that could be a defining test of his incoming administration considering her close relationship with the president-elect. Wiles is said to have earned Trump's trust in part by guiding what was the most disciplined of Trump's three presidential campaigns. Wiles was able to help keep Trump on track as few others have, not by criticising his impulses, but by winning h

Donald Trump announces Tom Homan will be in charge of nation's borders

Trump during his presidential campaign against his Democratic rival Kamala Harris had said that he would run the largest deportation programme

China's energy dominance gets boost from Trump's return to White House

China is responsible for nearly a third of the world's carbon footprint, about 2.5 times the US figure

Here's why Donald Trump won't take world by surprise a second time

For many countries, however, the prospect of Trump's return is less disconcerting than one might imagine

News updates: Had Cong given priority to rural India, we would have less poverty, says Nitin Gadkari

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Trump's priorities include border, hostages, ending wars, says Kash Patel

The priorities of President-elect Donald Trump are border, terrorists, bringing home hostages, and ending the forever wars, said Kash Patel, an Indian-American lawyer in an interview. "He is the only president in modern history not to start a new one. If the initial indications after the election are any indication of how it's going to be, it's going to be a very peaceful process. He had a phone call with Vladimir Zelensky and already talked about winding down the Ukraine war. He has already discussed had phone calls with multiple world leaders," Kash Patel told Fox News in an interview. An American attorney and former government official, Patel served as a US National Security Council official, senior advisor to the acting Director of National Intelligence, and chief of staff to the acting United States secretary of defence during the first Trump presidency. He is one of Trump's close confidants on national security and foreign policy. He was responding to a series of questions on

What makes Trump one of the most powerful US presidents in his second term?

From presidential immunity to control over the Supreme Court, Donald Trump marks a powerful comeback in his second term as US president

FBI thwarts Iranian plot to assassinate Donald Trump; 3 people charged

The FBI thwarted an Iranian plot to assassinate Donald Trump, the Department of Justice said on Friday as it charged an Iranian national and arrested two American citizens for involvement in a plot to murder the Republican president-elect. The Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) charged Farhad Shakeri, 51, an asset of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), who is believed to reside in Iran. Two individuals, Carlisle Rivera, 49, and Jonathon Loadholt, 36, were arrested from Brooklyn and Staten Island in New York on Thursday. According to statements made by Shakeri in recorded interviews, he was tasked by the Iranian regime on October 7 to devise a plan to kill Trump, who was re-elected as the president of the US earlier this week. However, Shakeri claimed he did not intend to carry out the plan within the deadline set by the IRGC. Shakeri, who was deported to Iran in 2008 after serving 14 years in prison for a robbery conviction, said he was also instructed to surveil two

Trump built a new coalition that won more Latino & African American voters

US Presidential Election 2024 challenged the nothing of people of colour forming a monolithic voting bloc that only cared for social issues

Secret Service report reveals details on failures in Trump attack attempt

A new Secret Service report into the July assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump said multiple staffers knew about clear line-of-sight risks but found them acceptable and that farm equipment intended to obstruct the view from the nearby building where the gunman opened fire was never used. The internal review released Friday is the latest in a list of reports and investigations into the July 13 shooting at a Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, which killed one rallygoer and wounded two others. Trump was shot in the ear before being hustled off the stage. A Secret Service counter-sniper shot and killed the gunman, Thomas Crooks. A classified version of the report, done by the agency's Office of Professional Responsibility, was shared with members of Congress, while a seven-page unclassified synopsis was released publicly Friday. An early version of the agency's investigation into its own conduct was released in September. The report largely echoed the findings

Trump kicks off Pennsylvania rally by talking in detail about Arnold Palmer

Donald Trump's campaign suggested he would begin previewing his closing argument Saturday night with Election Day barely two weeks away. But the former president kicked off his rally with a detailed story about Arnold Palmer, at one point even praising the late, legendary golfer's genitalia. Trump was campaigning in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, where Palmer was born in 1929 and learned to golf from his father, who suffered from polio and was head pro and greenskeeper at the local country club. Politicians saluting Palmer in his hometown is nothing new. But Trump spent 12 full minutes doing so at the top of his speech and even suggested how much more fun the night would be if Palmer, who died in 2016, could join him on stage. Arnold Palmer was all man, and I say that in all due respect to women," Trump said. "This is a guy that was all man. Then he went even further. When he took the showers with other pros, they came out of there. They said, Oh my God. That's unbelievable,' Trump said w

Judge in Trump case orders release of info from Pence documents probe

The federal judge overseeing the election interference case against Donald Trump directed prosecutors Wednesday to search for and provide to the former president's lawyers any Justice Department information related to a separate investigation into Mike Pence's handling of classified documents. Trump's lawyers had argued that that information could be relevant to their defense to the extent it shows that Pence, Trump's vice president, had an incentive to curry favor with authorities and implicate Trump while facing his own investigation into the retention of classified documents in his Indiana home. Special counsel Jack Smith's team has said it had no involvement in the Pence investigation and has no discoverable information on the case "beyond what has been publicly reported. But U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan ordered Smith's team to look for and produce any additional records on the investigation, noting that defense lawyers are entitled to cite evidence of a witness's uncharged

Two shot during Trump assassination attempt say secret service failed them

Two men who were shot during the first assassination attempt on Donald Trump this summer say the US Secret Service was negligent in protecting the former president and other bystanders at the campaign rally in Pennsylvania. David Dutch, 57, an ex-Marine, and James Copenhaver, 74, a retired liquor store manager, told NBC News in an exclusive interview Monday they were excited to be sitting in the bleachers behind the Republican nominee at the fairgrounds in Butler on July 13 when gunshots rang out and they were hit. Another man, Corey Comperatore, 50, was killed in the shooting while shielding his family. Trump was wounded in the ear. The interview with the two Pennsylvania men who were critically injured marked their first public statements since 20-year-old shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, opened fire in July from an unsecured rooftop nearby before he was fatally shot by sharpshooters. It was like getting hit with a sledgehammer right in the chest, sai

Trump's protests aside, his agenda significantly overlaps with Project 2025

Donald Trump insists that Project 2025, a nearly 1,000-page blueprint for a hard-right turn in American government and society, does not reflect his priorities for a White House encore. I haven't read it. I don't want to read it purposefully, the Republican presidential nominee said September 10 on the debate stage. Yet from economics, immigration and education policy to civil rights and foreign affairs, there are common ideas and shared ideology between Project 2025 and Trump's outline for another term from his official Agenda 47 slate, the Republican platform he personally approved and his other statements. There are also differences: Project 2025, led by the Heritage Foundation and written by many conservatives who worked in or with Trump's administration, offers more particulars on some issues than the former president. Here's a look at how Trump's 2024 campaign and Project 2025 align and deviate: Key tax proposals could benefit the wealthy TRUMP: His tax policies lean broa

US inflation likely cooled again last month in sign of healthy economy

Donald Trump's contributions from small-dollar donors have plummeted since his last bid for the White House, presenting the former president with a financial challenge as he attempts to keep pace with Democrats' fundraising machine. Fewer than a third of the Republican's campaign contributions have come from donors who gave less than $200 - down from nearly half of all donations in his 2020 race, according to an analysis by The Associated Press and OpenSecrets, an organization that tracks political spending. The total collected from small donors has also declined, according to the analysis. Trump raised $98 million from such contributors through June, a 40% drop compared to the $165 million they contributed during a corresponding period in his previous presidential race. The dip has forced Trump to rely more on wealthy donors and groups backed by them, a shift that cuts into the populist message that first propelled him to the White House. The decline in donations could not come at

No state would be allowed to ban gasoline-powered cars if he elected: Trump

Trump is looking to win votes in Michigan, a key swing state in the 2024 presidential election that is home to the Detroit Three automakers

Trump's campaign raised $160 mn in Sept, ending with $283 mn in bank

Former President Donald Trump raised USD 160 million for his campaign in September and entered October with USD 283 million in the bank for the campaign's final sprint, his aides announced. The September fundraising figure, which Trump's campaign released on Wednesday, is up from the USD 130 million he reported raising in August. It covers money raised by Trump's campaign and affiliated committees. Vice President Kamala Harris, Trump's Democratic rival, has not yet released her fundraising numbers for the full month, but numbers previously released suggest she'll exceeded Trump's haul. Harris aides have said she raised USD 55 million during a fundraising swing through California last weekend alone, which included stops in Los Angeles and San Francisco. The prior weekend, she raised USD 27 million at a packed New York City fundraiser, which was at the time her largest fundraising haul since she took over at the top of the ticket from President Joe Biden, according to a Harris campaig