Mexico denied a U.S. military plane access to land Thursday, at least temporarily frustrating the Trump administration’s plans to deport immigrants to the country, according to two U.S. defense officials and a third person familiar with the situation. Two Guatemala-bound Air Force C-17s, carrying about 80 people apiece, flew deportees out of the U.S. Thursday […]
The price of Bitcoin surged to an all-time high of $75,255 Tuesday night as early results from the US presidential election began to roll in, with former President Donald Trump taking an initial lead in the Electoral College. The Associated Press reported a 7.7% increase in Bitcoin’s value, while share prices and bond yields also […]
The FBI said it “is investigating what appears to be an attempted assassination” of Donald Trump at his Florida golf club. Trump was not harmed in the incident. The Secret Service had spotted a rifle barrel sticking out of a fence and agents fired at a man who was in the bushes along the perimeter, […]
Historian Allan Lichtman, who has an almost perfect record in predicting US election results, has said that Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris will win the November poll. The American University professor has correctly predicted the results of all but one US presidential election since 1984. Forget the polls, ditch the data and stop […]
Joe Biden has turned the US election on its head. After fiercely insisting for weeks that he would remain the Democratic nominee for president, he has bowed to pressure and dropped out of the race. Here’s what it means for Vice-President Kamala Harris, for the Democrats more broadly and for Donald Trump. Harris is a […]
Before Thursday evening, many Americans had expressed concerns about Joe Biden’s age and fitness for office. To say that this debate did not put those concerns to rest may be one of the greatest understatements of the year. The president came into the debate with a low bar to clear, and he stumbled. He was […]
Donald Trump has been convicted on all 34 counts of falsifying business records in his historic criminal trial in New York. It is the first time a former or serving US president has been convicted of a crime. He will be sentenced on 11 July – the ex-president could face prison, but legal experts say […]
US President Joe Biden’s aides have found a fresh batch of classified government records at a second location, in a growing political embarrassment for the White House. The first cache was found at a private office in Washington DC that Mr Biden used after his vice-presidency. The matter is under review by the US Department […]
Ivana Trump, Donald Trump’s first wife and the mother of three of his children has died aged 73. “She was a wonderful, beautiful, and amazing woman, who led a great and inspirational life,” Mr Trump posted on his social media platform Truth Social. Ms Trump, who was born in what is now the Czech Republic, […]
The top US military officer says he was wrong to have joined President Donald Trump during his controversial walk to a damaged church near the White House. The 1 June event created “a perception of the military involved in domestic politics”, Gen Mark Milley said. Mr Trump walked to the church and held up a […]
The Police Chief of Houston, Art Acevedo has lashed out at President Donald Trump, telling him to behave like a president and not like an apprentice. His comments come on the back of suggestions by the President that Governors and security heads in the various States across the United States of America are weak and […]
President Donald Trump has threatened to send in the military to quell growing civil unrest in the US over the death of a black man in police custody. He said if cities and states failed to control the protests and “defend their residents” he would deploy the army and “quickly solve the problem for them”. […]
