Washington’s push to regulate digital assets has entered a sharper phase after Senator Bernie Moreno accused major banks of trying to block stablecoin competition as Congress prepares for a decisive test of the CLARITY Act this week. Moreno, a Republican from Ohio and one of the Senate’s most vocal crypto advocates, said the “banking cartel” was “in full panic mode” over legislation that could reshape the relationship […]
Justice Department lawyers have asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit blocking parts of President Donald Trump’s planned White House ballroom, using language that legal critics say closely mirrors the president’s combative social media style and marks a striking departure from the department’s traditional courtroom tone. A motion filed in federal court argues that the National Trust for Historic Preservation, which brought the case, has no […]
By Nitya Chakraborty President Donald Trump as usual has been talking in conflicting voices on his immediate stand on Iran war. The U.S. President ordered naval blockade of Iranian ports after the failure of the Islamabad peace talks on Sunday but on Tuesday, he indicated that another round of talks would be held in the […]
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By Nitya Chakraborty All nations in the globe except perhaps Israel have welcomed the ceasefire agreement for two weeks between U.S. and Iran announced by President Donald Trump on April 7 evening US time and later endorsed by the Iranian government. The ceasefire is fragile – Israel has bombed Lebanon killing 254 persons on Wednesday […]
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By Asad Mirza It seems that President Trump’s Tuesday morning Truth Social post, which threatened “a whole civilisation will die tonight” and raised the spectre of nuclear war, has jolted the American lawmakers, and it has begun a chorus of calls either for Trump’s impeachment or for his removal via the invocation of the 25th […]
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Anger over the war with Iran has widened the scope of the anti-Trump “No Kings” protests across the United States, turning what began as a broad movement against executive overreach into a sharper rebuke of the White House’s foreign and domestic agenda. Demonstrations on Saturday spread through more than 3,100 locations across all 50 states, with organisers and news reports describing one of the largest coordinated days […]
White House officials said diplomatic channels with Iran remain active despite Tehran’s public rejection of US overtures, underscoring a widening disconnect between rhetoric and back-channel engagement as tensions ripple across the Middle East and global markets. The White House has sought to project continuity in negotiations, signalling that intermediaries and indirect communications are still in play even as Iranian officials outline new preconditions for any de-escalation. […]
By Nitya Chakraborty On Wednesday, the 18th day of the U.S.-Israel combo’s war against Iran, Trump got two bad news simultaneously which made him ponder on how to go about on his next forward strategy to ensure Iran’s submission to the U.S. might. The first news was the European governments have refused to respond to […]
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Growing scrutiny surrounds a deadly missile strike that destroyed a girls’ school in southern Iran, after a Republican senator said the United States must acknowledge responsibility if investigations confirm that American forces carried out the attack. The remarks followed mounting evidence that a Tomahawk missile used during joint military operations against Iranian targets may have struck the school in the town of Minab, killing scores of civilians, […]
Britain’s much-trumpeted trade understanding with Washington is under mounting strain after a United States Supreme Court ruling curtailed key elements of President Donald Trump’s tariff authority, raising the prospect that the UK could emerge as one of the most exposed partners in a rapidly changing trade order. For months, ministers in London had pointed to preferential access secured under a revised bilateral framework with the White House, […]
Arabian Post Staff -Dubai President Donald Trump has declared an immediate increase of the global tariff rate to 15 per cent, intensifying a high-stakes confrontation over trade policy following a ruling by the United States Supreme Court that he exceeded his authority with earlier broad tariff measures. The move comes as he invoked a different legal framework to maintain pressure on foreign producers and to limit what […]
By Nitya Chakraborty Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his ministers in the Government as also loyal experts are having a pathetic time in explaining the great benefits that the Indo-US Trade Deal are conferring to India, especially the agricultural sector which is one of the major focus area of the US President Donald Trump. Commerce […]
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By T N Ashok WASHINGTON: In the corridors of power, where messaging is currency and optics are everything, President Donald Trump faces a political paradox that threatens to undermine his party’s prospects in November’s midterm elections: his administration’s economic achievements are being systematically overshadowed by images of masked federal agents confronting protesters in Minneapolis. The […]
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Texas Governor Greg Abbott has ordered an immediate halt to new H-1B visa petitions by all state agencies and public universities, a dramatic step aimed at prioritising jobs for local workers and intensifying scrutiny of foreign worker hiring practices in government-funded institutions. The directive, issued on 27 January, bars these bodies from initiating or filing for new H-1B visas without written approval from the Texas Workforce Commission […]
Signs are emerging that President Donald Trump’s aggressive immigration drive is carrying political risks, with polling shifts, street protests and unease among key voter blocs suggesting the strategy is beginning to dent public support. The administration has intensified workplace raids, expanded detention capacity and accelerated deportations while federal authorities have moved forcefully to disperse demonstrations against the sweeps, framing the approach as a necessary restoration of law […]
By Nitya Chakraborty 2025 was the year of the maverick U.S. President Donald Trump. The developments during the year beginning January 20 evolved around Trump. He was the key decision-maker, irrespective of what other countries leaders felt. He cared little for the United Nations, WTO, WHO and all other multilateral bodies. He openly said ‘I […]
The article 2025 Was Donald Trump’s Year But 2026 Is Going To Be The Year With Xi Jinping’s Domination appeared first on Latest India news, analysis and reports on Newspack by India Press Agency).
Senate Republicans are accelerating plans to bring a sweeping cryptocurrency bill to a vote, betting that momentum and industry pressure can overcome lingering Democratic reservations even as bipartisan talks remain unsettled. The move was confirmed late on Friday by the chair of the Senate Banking Committee, who said the panel would press ahead with scheduling despite parallel efforts by the Senate Agriculture Committee to refine a cross-party […]
By Nitya Chakraborty U.S. commerce secretary Howard Lutnick’s stunning podcast on Thursday claiming that the bilateral India-US trade deal was almost ready but was not signed as Prime Minister did not call the U.S. President Donald Trump as was expected by the Americans. This lack of proper gesture on the part of the Indian PM […]
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By Nitya Chakraborty The invasion of Venezuela by the United States on the early hours of January 3 along with the kidnapping of President Nicholas Maduro and his wife marks a new phase in Donald Trump’s foreign policy which has been termed by The Guardian columnist as “naked imperialism”. The announcement by Trump that the […]
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Taiwanese security officials and lawmakers have been assessing the implications of Donald Trump’s hardline language on Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro, viewing it as a signal of how a future Trump administration might project power abroad and deter coercive moves by Beijing, even as they privately acknowledge that no arrest of the Venezuelan leader has taken place. The discussion reflects Taipei’s constant effort to read Washington’s intentions amid growing […]
Ilya Lichtenstein, the convict at the centre of one of the largest bitcoin thefts in history, has walked free from federal custody ahead of his full sentence, publicly attributing his early release to the First Step Act, a criminal justice reform law enacted in 2018 under President Donald Trump. Lichtenstein’s abrupt return to civilian life after serving about 14 months of a five-year term for laundering nearly […]
Canada faces another period of economic uncertainty as the U. S. Supreme Court weighs a case that could reshape the legal foundations of tariffs imposed during Donald Trump’s presidency, reviving questions about the stability of cross-border trade rules and the exposure of Canadian industries to abrupt policy shifts. The pending decision centres on the scope of presidential authority to levy tariffs under long-standing U. S. trade statutes, […]
The U. S. Senate has deferred action on a highly anticipated crypto market structure bill, with the Senate Banking Committee confirming that it will not hold a markup vote on the legislation this year and plans to resume deliberations in early 2026. The decision prolongs regulatory uncertainty for digital asset markets and leaves unresolved how federal authorities will oversee cryptocurrency trading platforms, brokers, issuers and decentralised finance […]
Millions of Americans are heading into 2026 facing sharply higher health-insurance costs. Employer-based insurance premiums are projected to rise by nearly 9 percent, marking the steepest increase in fifteen years. For families paying for their own coverage through public marketplaces created under the Affordable Care Act, the shock will likely be greater. Premiums on those plans are expected to jump by roughly 26 percent, and enhanced subsidies […]
