by Our Correspondent in Colombo In an age where diplomacy is as much about optics as it is about policy, US Ambassador to Sri Lanka, Julie Chung, has taken ‘attachment’ to a
Bond investors are increasingly banking on Donald Trump’s sweeping import tariffs to provide a crucial revenue stream for the US government, a dramatic reversal from earlier this year when his trade war
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A federal judge in San Francisco has barred the Trump administration from deploying the National Guard in California, delivering a blow to the president’s efforts to expand military involvement in domestic law
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Alexis Wilkins, the 26-year-old girlfriend of FBI Director Kash Patel, has filed a $5 million defamation lawsuit against a former FBI agent who accused her of working as a foreign spy. Wilkins,
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Former President Donald Trump has directed the cancellation of $4.9 billion in foreign aid spending previously approved by Congress, invoking a little-used legal mechanism in an effort to bypass lawmakers and assert
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President Donald Trump has touted the existence of “massive oil reserves” in Pakistan, surprising industry experts and officials in the South Asian nation, which imports around 80% of its petroleum supply. The
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More than four decades after its publication, Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong’s The Brethren remains one of the most controversial books ever written about the United States Supreme Court. It is frequently
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A letter signed by U.S. First Lady Melania Trump and delivered to Russian President Vladimir Putin has ignited a storm of speculation online, with many pointing out its striking resemblance to former
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The Pentagon has been preventing Ukraine from using long-range missiles to strike targets inside Russia for several months, according to a Wall Street Journal report published Saturday citing U.S. officials. The restrictions,
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U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has dismissed the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), Lieutenant General Jeffrey Kruse, after the agency’s initial analysis of recent U.S. strikes on Iranian nuclear sites
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The FBI has raided the Maryland home of John Bolton, the former US national security adviser under Donald Trump who has since become one of the president’s sharpest critics. Federal agents executed
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