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Donald Trump is serving as the 47th president of the United States since January 2025. Catch here all the latest news related to Donald Trump and the Trump administration.

Trump pays back, revokes Biden's security clearance ending intel briefings

There is no need for Joe Biden to continue receiving access to classified information, so we are immediately revoking Joe Biden's Security Clearances, and stopping his Intelligence Brief, Trump said

Updated On : 08 Feb 2025 | 8:14 AM IST

US Steel will get investment from Nippon, instead of being bought: Trump

Nippon Steel is going to be doing something very exciting about US Steel, Trump said at a news conference with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba

Updated On : 08 Feb 2025 | 8:03 AM IST

Boston judge to consider bid to block Trump's birthright citizenship order

US District Judge Leo Sorokin was the third federal judge this week to hear arguments in lawsuits seeking to block the order

Updated On : 08 Feb 2025 | 8:00 AM IST

Judge halts Trump order of USAID workers' leave giving them 30 day deadline

US District Judge Carl Nichols, who was nominated by President Donald Trump, sided with two federal employee associations in agreeing to a pause in plans to put the employees on paid leave

Updated On : 08 Feb 2025 | 7:59 AM IST

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S Africa's white minorities' groups say no to Trump's resettlement offer

Groups representing some of South Africa's white minority responded Saturday to a plan by President Donald Trump to offer them refugee status and resettlement in the United States by saying: thanks, but no thanks. The plan was detailed in an executive order Trump signed Friday that stopped all aid and financial assistance to South Africa as punishment for what the Trump administration said were rights violations by the government against some of its white citizens. The Trump administration accused the South African government of allowing violent attacks on white Afrikaner farmers and introducing a land expropriation law that enables it to seize ethnic minority Afrikaners' agricultural property without compensation. The South African government has denied there are any concerted attacks on white farmers and has said that Trump's description of the new land law is full of misinformation and distortions. Afrikaners are descended from mainly Dutch, but also French and German colonial .

S Africa's white minorities' groups say no to Trump's resettlement offer
Updated On : 08 Feb 2025 | 10:58 PM IST

Trump's third week sees more executive orders, trade war with China

Three weeks in, President Donald Trump keeps cranking out executive orders designed to remake the government while billionaire Elon Musk hunts for more ways to upend the federal workforce. Trump also provoked then called off trade wars with Canada and Mexico but allowed one with China to move forward. He seemingly made light of potentially thorny political issues while insisting he was serious about the United States seizing Gaza, emptying out its residents and redeveloping the area into the Riviera of the Middle East. It was an idea that friend and foe alike around the world rejected. Here are some Week 3 takeaways: So many executive orders Trump has spent 20 days in office, and on nearly every one of them, he has signed executive orders often several. Just like Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden before him, Trump used Inauguration Day to put pen to paper on actions meant to wipe out large numbers of his predecessor's policies. Trump also issued Day 1 orders to pardon most

Trump's third week sees more executive orders, trade war with China
Updated On : 08 Feb 2025 | 10:37 PM IST

PM Modi's agenda during US visit to focus on trade, defence, meeting Musk

India's Ministry of External Affairs and Ministry of Commerce and Industry didn't immediately respond to emails requesting further information

PM Modi's agenda during US visit to focus on trade, defence, meeting Musk
Updated On : 08 Feb 2025 | 10:14 PM IST

News updates: Govt making all efforts to restore peace in Manipur, says CM

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News updates: Govt making all efforts to restore peace in Manipur, says CM
Updated On : 08 Feb 2025 | 9:39 PM IST

US spending Bill in limbo as differences between Republicans-Democrats rise

Before President Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress can enact much of their legislative agenda, they have to deal with some unfinished business completing work on the current budget year's spending bills. It's a task that by all accounts is not going well. The current stopgap measure lasts through March 14. After that, without congressional action, there would be a partial government shutdown. Five weeks is an eternity when it comes to resolving spending bills in Washington. But Trump's first weeks in office have escalated tensions between the two parties as the new administration reshapes agency priorities and dismantles existing programs without congressional approval. A look at where the talks stand: Republicans accuse Democrats of abandoning negotiations Republican and Democratic leaders of the two appropriations committees in Congress were holding spending bill talks in late January; aides said the two sides were committed to getting a deal done. But optimism has faded

US spending Bill in limbo as differences between Republicans-Democrats rise
Updated On : 08 Feb 2025 | 9:32 PM IST

USDA freezes farmer funding for some programmes, conservation contracts

The impact has been immediate and wide-ranging, from cash assistance for ranchers to fix cattle watering systems to help for corn growers wanting to plant cover crops that curb wind erosion

USDA freezes farmer funding for some programmes, conservation contracts
Updated On : 08 Feb 2025 | 5:11 PM IST

Trump makes passport applications more complex for transgender Americans

The day after President Donald Trump returned to office, Lisa Suhay took her 21-year-old daughter, Mellow, to a passport office in Norfolk, Virginia, where they live. Getting a passport for Mellow, who is transgender, was urgent. In an executive order Trump signed the night before, the president used a narrow definition of the sexes instead of a broader conception of gender. The order says a person is male or female and it rejects the idea that someone can transition from the sex assigned at birth to another gender. The framing is in line with many conservatives' views but at odds with major medical groups and policies under former President Joe Biden. Her family wants Mellow to be able to leave the country if things became unbearable for transgender people in the US as the federal government increasingly moves not to recognise them. If the worst was to come to worst and things were to threaten my life, she said, I would have some way out. Trump's Jan. 20 order, which questions th

Trump makes passport applications more complex for transgender Americans
Updated On : 08 Feb 2025 | 2:38 PM IST

Trump wants to negotiate about Ukraine, Putin's stance remains unclear

Nearly three years after President Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine, his troops are making steady progress on the battlefield. Kyiv is grappling with shortages of men and weapons. And the new US president could soon halt Ukraine's massive supply of military aid. Putin is closer than ever to achieving his objectives in the battle-weary country, with little incentive to come to the negotiating table, no matter how much US President Donald Trump might cajole or threaten him, according to Russian and Western experts interviewed by The Associated Press. Both are signalling discussions on Ukraine - by phone or in person - using flattery and threats. Putin said Trump was clever and pragmatic, and even parroted his false claims of having won the 2020 election. Trump's opening gambit was to call Putin smart and to threaten Russia with tariffs and oil price cuts, which the Kremlin brushed off. Trump boasted during the campaign he could end the war in 24 hours, which later became six months. He

Trump wants to negotiate about Ukraine, Putin's stance remains unclear
Updated On : 08 Feb 2025 | 2:08 PM IST

Trump signing up local law officers to help with immigration enforcement

For years, the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office in suburban Indianapolis has wanted to partner with federal immigration authorities to identify and detain immigrants who are in the US illegally and facing charges. President Joe Biden's administration never returned its calls, the sheriff's office said. But as President Donald Trump cracks down on illegal immigration, Hamilton County deputies soon could become the first in Indiana empowered to carry out federal immigration duties and one of many nationally that Trump's administration hopes to enlist. We definitely are joining, Chief Deputy John Lowes told The Associated Press. We want to collaborate with ICE to make sure we keep our community safe. Under Trump, US Customs and Immigration Enforcement is reviving and expanding a decades-old program that trains local law officers to interrogate immigrants in their custody and detain them for potential deportation. The 287(g) programme named for a section of the 1996 law that created it

Trump signing up local law officers to help with immigration enforcement
Updated On : 08 Feb 2025 | 12:49 PM IST

Working for Trump's 'mission' to restore biological truth: US housing secy

Turner's remarks are in line with policies announced by Trump shortly after his inauguration

Working for Trump's 'mission' to restore biological truth: US housing secy
Updated On : 08 Feb 2025 | 12:37 PM IST

Trump's DEI order leaves academic researchers fearing influence over grants

President Donald Trump's crackdown on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives in programmes receiving federal money has thrown into doubt the future of research Kendra Dahmer has been doing on intestinal parasites in India and Benin. Dahmer, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, has a grant from the National Institutes of Health, the single largest public funder of biomedical research in the world. The grant is supposed to cover her research through the summer of 2026, but now she wonders if that will be possible. She received diversity-based funding as the first college graduate in her family and a woman in science and, more broadly, she is uncertain how Trump's anti-DEI executive order could affect support for her areas of study. There's also this aspect of research that funds specific studies in specific populations that are now being deemed DEI, Dahmer said. So, like HIV research in Africa may be deemed DEI, malaria research, which also happe

Trump's DEI order leaves academic researchers fearing influence over grants
Updated On : 08 Feb 2025 | 12:30 PM IST

Here's why Donald Trump wants Canada's wealth of critical minerals

Canada is rich in nearly three dozen critical minerals essential to modern technology and produces more than 60 minerals and metals including nickel, potash, aluminum and uranium

Here's why Donald Trump wants Canada's wealth of critical minerals
Updated On : 08 Feb 2025 | 11:54 AM IST

Best of BS Opinion: How AI, trade, and immigration generate conflict

From the use of AI in the military, to its use to generate unrest, from illegal human trafficking leading to conflict between allies, our columns today deal with the idea conflict

Best of BS Opinion: How AI, trade, and immigration generate conflict
Updated On : 08 Feb 2025 | 11:02 AM IST

Elon Musk, JD Vance push to reinstate DOGE staffer after 'Indian hate' post

Elon Musk and JD Vance are pushing for the reinstatement of a DOGE staffer who resigned after making a controversial 'normalise Indian hate' post

Elon Musk, JD Vance push to reinstate DOGE staffer after 'Indian hate' post
Updated On : 08 Feb 2025 | 10:07 AM IST

'Back to plastic': Trump to sign exec order to reinstate plastic straws

Once the executive order is signed next week, the federal ban on single-use plastic straws in the US will be lifted, allowing businesses to reintroduce them in beverages

'Back to plastic': Trump to sign exec order to reinstate plastic straws
Updated On : 08 Feb 2025 | 10:04 AM IST

TikTok to let US Android users download app via kits on its website

Apple and Google have not reinstated TikTok to their app stores since a US law took effect on January 19 requiring its Chinese owner ByteDance either to sell on national security grounds or face ban

TikTok to let US Android users download app via kits on its website
Updated On : 08 Feb 2025 | 9:52 AM IST

Donald Trump pauses 'de minimis' repeal as packages pile up at US customs

The initial change, implemented with just over 48 hours' notice, caused the USPS to temporarily stop accepting packages from China and Hong Kong earlier this week

Donald Trump pauses 'de minimis' repeal as packages pile up at US customs
Updated On : 08 Feb 2025 | 9:38 AM IST

US Attorney probe threats against govt employees following Musk's referral

Martin reaffirmed his commitment to investigating any unethical actions, emphasised the importance of holding accountable those who abuse American taxpayer dollars

US Attorney probe threats against govt employees following Musk's referral
Updated On : 08 Feb 2025 | 8:49 AM IST

Trump orders freeze of aid to S Africa citing land expropriation law

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday formalizing his announcement earlier this week that he'll freeze assistance to South Africa for a law aiming to address some of the wrongs of South Africa's racist apartheid era a law the White House says amounts to discrimination against the country's white minority. As long as South Africa continues to support bad actors on the world stage and allows violent attacks on innocent disfavored minority farmers, the United States will stop aid and assistance to the country, the White House said in a summary of the order. The White House said Trump is also going to announce a program to resettle white South African farmers and their families as refugees. Trump was responding to a new law in South Africa that gives the government powers in some instances to expropriate land from people. The White House said the law blatantly discriminates against ethnic minority Afrikaners. The Expropriation Act was signed into law by South African

Trump orders freeze of aid to S Africa citing land expropriation law
Updated On : 08 Feb 2025 | 8:20 AM IST

More active duty troops to head to US-Mexico border, brings total to 3,600

The Pentagon will deploy roughly 1,500 more active duty soldiers to the southern border to support President Donald Trump's expanding crackdown on immigration, a U.S. official said Friday. That would eventually bring the total to about 3,600 active duty troops at the border. The order has been approved, the official said, to send a logistics brigade from the 18th Airborne Corps at Fort Liberty in North Carolina. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the deployment has not yet been publicly announced. The Pentagon has been scrambling to put in motion Trump's executive orders signed shortly after he took office on Jan. 20. The first group of 1,600 active duty troops has already deployed to the border, and close to 500 more soldiers from the 10th Mountain Division are expected to begin moving in the coming days. About 500 Marines also have been told to go to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where some of the detained migrants will be held. Several hundred Marines have already arri

More active duty troops to head to US-Mexico border, brings total to 3,600
Updated On : 08 Feb 2025 | 8:15 AM IST