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White House says it 'will decide' which news outlets will cover Trump

The White House said Tuesday that its officials will decide which news outlets can regularly cover President Donald Trump up close - a sharp break from a century of tradition in which a pool of independently chosen news organisations go where the chief executive does and hold him accountable on behalf of regular Americans. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the changes would rotate traditional outlets from the group and include some streaming services. She cast the change as a modernisation of the press pool, saying the move would be more inclusive and restore access back to the American people who elected Trump. Moving forward, the White House press pool will be determined by the White House press team," Leavitt said at a daily briefing. A select group of DC-based journalists should no longer have a monopoly of press access at the White House. She spoke a day after a federal judge refused to immediately order the White House to restore The Associated Press' access to

Elon Musk isn't running DOGE but Amy Gleason is, says White House official

Gleason, a health care technology executive, is serving as the acting administrator of DOGE, according to a White House official, who requested anonymity to discuss a matter that is not public

US presidency coverage is a 'privilege', not a right, says White House

According to CNN, AP filed the suit on Friday in US District Court in Washington, seeking an emergency hearing and a court order to declare the ban unconstitutional and require them to rescind it

US backs Israel in halting Palestinians' release citing inhumane treatment

Israel postponed the release of 620 Palestinian prisoners despite Hamas setting free six Israeli captives

Associated Press sues three White House officials, seeks to restore access

In a suit filed in Washington federal court, the AP asked for an emergency hearing and a court order that would declare the prohibition unconstitutional and allow its journalists to regain access

'Deeply concerning': MEA reacts to Trump's claim on $21 mn USAID funding

Relevant departments and agencies are looking into this matter, said MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal on Donald Trump's remarks regarding the '$21 million allocation to India for voter turnout'

Trump seeks greater control of independent regulators with new order

US President Donald Trump is moving to give the White House direct control of independent federal regulators such as the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Federal Trade Commission and the Federal Communications Commission. The executive order that Trump signed on Tuesday gives the president more power to shape the oversight of the financial system and lay out criteria for transportation safety, basic consumer protections and wireless, broadcast, satellite and broadband communications. It is part of a broader push by the Trump administration to assert greater authority over the government, possibly limiting the spending of congressionally approved funds in ways that could set up lawsuits and lead courts to weigh in. Past administrations saw public benefit in having regulators that could operate in the long-term interests of the country without the daily machinations of politics. Presidents could exercise informal control by whom they appointed to lead the agencies without ...

White House flaunts 'cuffs and shackles' deportation of illegal migrants

White House video flaunting shackled migrants triggers international backlash, as India demands humane treatment while the US justifies it as SOP

In 1st joint interview, Trump backs Musk's efforts to enforce exec orders

Donning a t-shirt reading 'tech support' during the interview, Elon Musk described his primary function as assisting US President Donald Trump with technological matters

Elon Musk not a DOGE employee, cannot fire employees: White House

Since the start of Donald Trump's second term last month, Elon Musk-led DOGE has undertaken an aggressive effort to cut costs across federal agencies

Trump at WH: With over 70 lawsuits filed, 7 important cases to watch

The cases, brought by nonprofits, state attorneys general, civil rights groups and private citizens, challenge Trump's directives to freeze trillions of dollars in federal funding

WH restricts AP access to Air Force One as 'Gulf of America' rift deepens

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Taylor Budowich said the administration would seek to replace its reporters with those from other outlets in the Oval Office and on the presidential plane

PM Modi, Trump to hold press conference after their meet: White House

PM Modi's discussions with Trump are expected to focus on areas such as two-way trade, energy, technology and immigration

White House claims Gulf of Mexico has been renamed, calls it a 'fact'

For more than four centuries, the body of water stretching from Florida through Texas and into Mexico has been known as the Gulf of Mexico. But in a matter of weeks, President Donald Trump and White House officials have sought to rewrite the map by calling it the Gulf of America and insisting others do the same. It is a fact that the body of water off the coast of Louisiana is called the Gulf of America, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Feb. 12. It's very important to this administration that we get that right, not just for people here at home, but also for the rest of the world. But Trump's effort to rewrite the map of the world is far more complicated than such comments suggest. Here's what goes into a name. Did Trump rename the Gulf of Mexico? Before his Jan. 20 inauguration, Trump announced plans to change the Gulf of Mexico's name to the Gulf of America and signed an executive order to do so as soon as he was in office. Can he change the name on his own?

White House plans to nominate new chiefs for bank, market regulators

White House intends to nominate Jonathan Gould as the head of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, and Brian Quintenz as chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Trump admin prioritising relations with India: Ex-White House official

The Donald Trump administration is prioritising relations with India and recognises that the country has the potential to transform the Indo-Pacific region and is an important partner when it comes to competing effectively with China, a former White House official has said. These remarks were made by Lisa Curtis ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to the White House for a bilateral meeting with President Trump on Thursday. She has served in President Donald Trump's first administration as the senior director for South and Central Asia in the National Security Council between 2017 and 2021. In an online press briefing on Tuesday hosted by Washington DC-based think tank The Centre for a New American Security (CNAS) on the eve of Modi's visit, Curtis said,"Clearly, the Trump administration is prioritising relations with India." "They recognise that India is an important emerging global power and really has the potential to transform the Indo-Pacific region and the world," ..

Elon Musk appears at WH defending DOGE's work but acknowledging mistakes

President Donald Trump's most powerful adviser, Elon Musk, made a rare public appearance at the White House on Tuesday to defend the swift and extensive cuts he's pushing across the federal government while acknowledging there have been mistakes and will be more. Musk stood next to the Resolute Desk with his young son as Trump praised Musk's work with his Department of Government Efficiency to slash spending and as the president signed an executive order to continue downsizing the federal workforce. Despite concerns that he's amassing unaccountable power with little transparency, Musk described himself as an open book. He joked that the scrutiny over his sprawling influence over federal agencies was like a daily proctology exam. Despite Musk's pledge to be maximally transparent, the White House on Tuesday fired the inspector general for the U.S. Agency for International Development, a day after the watchdog's office warned that the DOGE-directed dismantling of USAID had made it all

Trump signs executive order to rename 'Gulf of Mexico' as 'Gulf of America'

Donald Trump's order, titled 'Restoring Names That Honour American Greatness', instructs the US Secretary of the Interior to formalise the name change within 30 days

Sonam Kapoor's brother-in-law under lens over $750K USAID funding to NGO

The USAID grant, awarded in 2020, was given to the Good Business Lab, co-founded by Ahuja, the brother of Kapoor's husband, Anand Ahuja

As Trump pushes limits of his presidential power, the courts push back

A familiar pattern has emerged since President Donald Trump returned to the White House less than three weeks ago: He makes a brash proposal, his opponents file a lawsuit and a federal judge puts the plan on hold. It's happened with Trump's attempts to freeze certain federal funding, undermine birthright citizenship and push out government workers. Now the question is whether the court rulings are a mere speed bump or an insurmountable roadblock for the Republican president, who is determined to expand the limits of his power sometimes by simply ignoring the laws. Although Democrats may be encouraged by the initial round of judicial resistance, the legal battles are only beginning. Lawsuits that originated in more liberal jurisdictions like Boston, Seattle and Washington, D.C., could find their way to the U.S. Supreme Court, where a conservative majority has demonstrated its willingness to overturn precedent. What's constitutional or not is only as good as the latest court decisio