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File picture of an aerial view of U.S. President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. Although Mr. Trump often spends weekends at his resort, he was at the White House during the incident on February 22, 2026. | Photo Credit: AP The U.S. Secret Service announced on Sunday (February 22, 2026) that an armed man…
U.S. President Donald Trump. File | Photo Credit: AP U.S. trading partners that have reached tariff deals with President Donald Trump’s administration will now also face a 10% duty, despite higher levels they may have agreed on previously, the White House said on Friday (February 20, 2026). This comes as the Supreme Court struck down…
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Some of the top Democratic lawmakers in the House are celebrating the Supreme Court’s decision striking down President Donald Trump’s global tariffs. Rep. Richard Neal, the ranking Democratic lawmaker on the House Ways and Means Committee, calls the decision “a victory for the American people, the rule of law, and our standing in the global…
Image used for representational purposes only. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto The United States has paid about $160 million of the nearly $4 billion it owes the United Nations, the U.N. said Thursday (February 19, 2026), and President Donald Trump promised more money to the financially strapped world organization. The Trump administration’s payment last week…
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President Donald Trump said that he’s directing the Pentagon and other government agencies to identify and release files related to extraterrestrials and UFOs because of “tremendous interest.” Image used for illustration purpose only. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto President Donald Trump said on Thursday (February 19, 2026) that he’s directing the Pentagon and other government…
U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday (February 19, 2026) said he had threatened to put 200% tariffs on India and Pakistan if they didn’t stop the fighting last summer, reiterating the claim that he stopped the war between the two nuclear-armed neighbours. Mr. Trump repeated the claim that he stopped eight wars within the first…
President Donald Trump stands with other World leaders before a Board of Peace meeting at the U.S. Institute of Peace, on February 19, 2026. | Photo Credit: AP India on Thursday (February 19, 2026) attended the inaugural meeting of U.S. President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace on Gaza as an “observer” country. According to a…
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Since Donald Trump’s return to power, the U.S. has courted the five former Soviet republics of Central Asia and moved to bolster its influence in a region where Russia and China have traditionally enjoyed primacy. File | Photo Credit: AP The U.S. government has signed an agreement with Uzbekistan to secure better access to the…
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In the first week of February, the Donald Trump administration of the United States unveiled Project Vault, an independently governed and operated public-private partnership aimed at establishing a strategic domestic reserve of critical mineralsin the United States. The partnership, backed by $10 billion in financing by the Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM) and…
Some 100 U.S. soldiers are being deployed to Nigeria as part of increased military cooperation to fight insecurity in the West African country, the Nigerian Defence Ministry announced Monday (February 16, 2026). The Ministry did not specify when the “U.S. military trainers” arrived or were due to arrive. “The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) wishes to announce…
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