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US responds amid row over Tulsi Gabbard's 'Caliphate' remark on Bangladesh

US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard had said that minority violence in Bangladesh stems from an ideology aiming to establish Islamist rule and a Caliphate

Trump expects India to lower tariffs but keeps April 2 deadline open

US President Donald Trump expects India to lower tariffs on US goods, says same tariffs will be imposed on India from April 2 if no reduction occurs

Greenpeace ordered to pay $660 mn to Texas oil company for defamation

A jury in North Dakota found Greenpeace and its US entities liable for defamation, conspiracy, and other claims for its involvement in protests at the Dakota Access pipeline

Finland ranks as world's happiest country again, US at worst-ever level

Denmark, Iceland, Sweden and the Netherlands rounded out the top five in the rankings, which are based solely on the answers people give when asked to rate the quality of their own lives

Attacks on Tesla dealerships rise as Musk takes key role in White House

Attacks on property carrying the logo of Elon Musk's electric-car company are cropping up across the US and overseas

Under Modi govt, terrorists will go to 'jail or jahannum': Nityanand Rai

Nityanand Rai listed several steps being taken to deal with cases of terror and claimed that after an amendment in the Act governing the National Investigative Agency

'One of the nastiest countries': Trump takes a shot at '51st state' Canada

Donald Trump calls Canada 'a nasty country to deal with', takes aim at former PM Trudeau, and says opposition leader Poilievre is 'no friend of mine' amid Canada's election race

Here's why Europe, Canada are eyeing alternatives to US-made fighter jets

Questions are mounting in Canada and in Europe over whether big-ticket purchases of high-end US weaponry, such as the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, are still a wise strategic choice for Western countries worried about their investment in US defence technology. In less than two months, US President Donald Trump has upended decades of US foreign policy. He has left NATO members questioning whether the US will honour the alliance's commitment to defend each other if other European countries are attacked by Russia. He's also made repeat overtures to Russia and suspended most US foreign aid. And Pete Hegseth, Trump's defence secretary, last month told a gathering of European defence ministers that stark strategic realities prevent the US from being primarily focused on the security of Europe. That could impact foreign sales of the Lockheed Martin-produced F-35 and other advanced US jets like the F-16. As the war in Ukraine continues into its fourth year, it's become clear that Eastern ...

What JFK files reveal: CIA warnings, mafia plots, and a second shooter

Newly released JFK files by the Trump administration reveal CIA warnings on Oswald, possible mafia links, and fresh second shooter evidence, raising questions about the 1963 assassination

Donald Trump releases classified JFK files: Why now and how to access them?

According to the National Archives and Records Administration, approximately 80,000 pages of records related to former President John F Kennedy's assassination have been made public

France urges US to return Lady Liberty. Here's why it's unlikely to happen

Hey, America: Give the Statue of Liberty back to France. So says a French politician who is making headlines in his country for suggesting that the US is no longer worthy of the monument, which was a gift from France nearly 140 years ago. Raphael Glucksmann, as a member of the European Parliament and co-president of a small left-wing party in France, can't claim to speak for all of his compatriots. But his assertion in a speech this weekend that some Americans have chosen to switch to the side of the tyrants reflects the broad shockwaves that US President Donald Trump's seismic shifts in foreign and domestic policy are triggering in France and elsewhere in Europe. Give us back the Statue of Liberty, Glucksmann told supporters of his Public Place party, who applauded and whistled, on Sunday. It was our gift to you. But apparently you despise her. So she will be happy here with us, Glucksmann said. The White House brushed back on the comments Monday, saying France instead should st

US attorney general calls attacks on Tesla property 'domestic terrorism'

Bondi's statement came after five Tesla vehicles were damaged when a fire erupted at a Tesla Collision Center in Las Vegas

Judge blocks Trump admin from terminating $14 bn in 'green bank' grants

A federal judge on Tuesday blocked the Trump administration from terminating USD 14 billion in grants awarded to three climate groups by the Biden administration, saying the government's vague and unsubstantiated assertions of fraud are insufficient. The order by U.S. District Judge Tonya Chutkan prevents for now the Environmental Protection Agency from ending the grant program, which totaled USD 20 billion. The judge also blocked Citibank, which holds the money on behalf of EPA, from transferring it to the government or anyone else. EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin accused the grant recipients of mismanagement, fraud and self-dealing and froze the grants. But after reviewing arguments in the case, Chutkan said Zeldin's allegations fell short. At this juncture, EPA Defendants have not sufficiently explained why unilaterally terminating Plaintiffs' grant awards was a rational precursor to reviewing the green bank program, Chutkan wrote. She was the third judge of the day to rule again

Trump releases previously classified files related to JFK assassination

Previously classified documents related to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy were released Tuesday following an order by President Donald Trump shortly after he took office. The documents were posted on the website of the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. The vast majority of the National Archives' collection of over 6 million pages of records, photographs, motion pictures, sound recordings and artifacts related to the assassination have previously been released. Trump told reporters Monday that has administration will be releasing 80,000 files, though it's not clear how many of those are among the millions of pages of records that have already been made public. We have a tremendous amount of paper. You've got a lot of reading, Trump said while visiting the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington. Researchers have estimated that 3,000 records or so hadn't been released, either in whole or in part. And last month, the FBI said

After Trump's call, Putin agrees to 30-day halt on striking Ukraine's infra

Following the Trump-Putin call, the Kremlin announced that Ukraine and Russia will exchange 175 prisoners of war each

White House says US is why French don't speak German: Is it true?

White House rebuffs French Parliamentarian's call to reclaim the Statue of Liberty, asserting that US intervention in WWII saved France from Nazi rule

Reliance exported Rs 6,850 cr worth of fuel from Russian oil to US: Report

Billionaire Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries Ltd is estimated to have earned 724 million euros (about Rs 6,850 crore) from exporting fuel made from Russian crude oil to the US in one year, an European think tank said in a report. "From January 2024 to the end of January 2025, the US imported EUR 2.8 billion of refined oil from six refineries in India and Turkey that process Russian crude. An estimated EUR 1.3 billion of this was refined from Russian crude," the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) said in a report. US imports of fuels such as petrol and diesel from Jamnagar in Gujarat, where Reliance's twin oil refineries are located, were EUR 2 billion. Of this, "EUR 724 million (is) estimated to be refined from Russian crude," it said. Western and US sanctions on Russia, that followed its invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, do not prohibit or sanction buying/using Russian crude oil and exporting fuels such as diesel derived from it. Gujarat's Vadinar, where ...

Millennials, GenZs say 'maybe later, baby': US birth rates hit 40-year low

The general fertility rate in the US decreased by 3 per cent in 2023, dropping to 54.5 births per 1,000 females aged 15 to 44, according to US National Center for Health Statistics

US DOJ, FBI announce new task force to target Hamas over Oct 7 attack

The Justice Department on Monday announced the creation of a task force to investigate Hamas for its October 7, 2023, attack on Israel as well as potential civil rights violations and acts of antisemitism by anyone supporting the militant group. Agents and prosecutors participating in Joint Task Force October 7, or JTF 10-7, will investigate and look to bring charges against Hamas militants directly responsible for the rampage in southern Israel, the department said. "The barbaric Hamas terrorists will not win and there will be consequences, Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a statement announcing the task force. The attack killed some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and Hamas took 251 hostages. It touched off an Israeli counteroffensive that has destroyed vast areas of Gaza, displaced most of the population and killed over 48,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, according to Gaza's Health Ministry, which does not say how many were combatants. The Biden administration's .

Expulsion of S African envoy by US just hiccup in relations: Prez Ramaphosa

The arbitrary expulsion of South Africa's Ambassador to the US, Ebrahim Rasool on Friday is "just a hiccup" in the relations between the two countries, President Cyril Ramaphosa said as the controversy around the issue raged over the weekend. Ramaphosa was speaking informally to journalists on Monday afternoon for the first time since US Secretary of State Marco Rubio declared Rasool "persona non grata" in a post on the social media platform X on Friday. This was after Rasool had participated in a discussion hosted earlier on Friday by the South African NGO Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection in which Rasool made comments which angered Rubio enough to call for his repatriation even before any formal diplomatic channels were followed. In his post on Friday, Rubio referred to Rasool as a race-baiting politician who hates America and hates @POTUS. "South Africa's ambassador to the United States is no longer welcome in our great country," Rubio added. In his academic address