In Donald Trump’s first term, governments around the world braced for his morning social media posts. What policy would be reversed, what insult thrown? Four years on, diplomats are once…
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USA: Trump’s power in Congress exposed
Shortly after Mike Johnson appeared to come up two votes shy of retaining the speakership of the House of Representatives on Friday, Marjorie Taylor Greene – the loyal Trump ally…
USA: Trump to be sentenced over hush money case but judge signals no jail time
A judge has ordered that Donald Trump will be sentenced on 10 January in his hush-money case in New York – less than two weeks before he is set to…
USA: Jimmy Carter’s challenges mirror those faced by Biden
Forty-four years elapsed between the time Jimmy Carter left the presidency and the day he died. Four decades seems like a long time – a record for a former US…
USA: Trump sides with tech bosses in Maga fight over immigrant visas
President-elect Donald Trump appeared to side with technology bosses Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy in a row over a visa programme that brings skilled workers to the US. Trump told…
USA: Trump urges US Supreme Court to delay TikTok ban
US President-elect Donald Trump has asked the US Supreme Court to delay an upcoming TikTok ban while he works on a “political resolution” .His lawyer filed a legal brief on…
Panama: President José Raúl Mulino calls Trump’s Chinese canal claim ‘nonsense’
Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino has denied claims by US president-elect Donald Trump that there are Chinese soldiers stationed at the Panama Canal. In recent days Trump has threatened to…
USA: Trump threatening to take Greenland and the Panama Canal
President-elect Donald Trump ran on a platform of isolating the US from foreign conflicts like the Ukraine war, increasing tariffs on foreign trade partners, and rebuilding domestic manufacturing. But in…
USA: As Biden commutes death row sentences, how Trump plans to expand executions
With just weeks left in office, US President Joe Biden has commuted the sentences of 37 of 40 federal death row inmates – potentially thwarting President-elect Donald Trump’s plans to…
Greenland: Authorities again tells Trump it is not for sale
Greenland has once again said it is not for sale after US President-elect Donald Trump said he wanted to take control of the territory. “Greenland belongs to the people of…