US President Donald Trump has named conservative media critic and pro-Israel commentator Leo Brent Bozell III as ambassador to South Africa, amid worsening diplomatic ties between the two countries. Mr Bozell ‘s nomination follows Washington’s expulsion of South Africa’s ambassador, Ebrahim Rasool, for remarks deemed critical of Trump. The Trump administration has condemned South Africa’s...
BBC This is the gravest crisis for Western security since the end of World War Two, and a lasting one. As one expert puts it, “Trumpism will outlast his presidency”. But which nations are equipped to step to the fore as the US stands back? At 09.00 one morning in February 1947, the UK ambassador...
Bernd Debusmann Jr at the White House & Brandon Drenon on Capitol Hill BBC News, Washington DC Watch: Key reactions to reports of a leaked group chat involving Trump officials US President Donald Trump and his intelligence chiefs have played down a security breach that saw a journalist invited into a Signal group chat where he reported seeing national security officials...
On Monday, a coalition of education advocacy groups filed a lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump’s executive order aimed at dismantling the U.S. Department of Education. The coalition includes the National Education Association (NEA) — the country’s largest union — the NAACP, several other advocacy organizations, and parents of public school students. “Nothing is more important...
The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear a case brought by Las Vegas hotelier Steve Wynn that aimed to lessen the standard for libel laws. Had the court taken up the issue, it could have made journalistic reporting on public figures — including the ultrarich and politicians — far more difficult in the future....
Four years ago, I published Subtle Tools, a book on the erosion of American democratic norms in the face of what came to be known as the Global War on Terror. Both what had been done in the name of “national security” in response to the 9/11 attacks and how it had been done —...
Yunseo Chung, a junior at Columbia University, sued U.S. President Donald Trump and other top officials in the Southern District of New York on Monday, challenging “the government’s shocking overreach in seeking to deport a college student… who is a lawful permanent resident of this country, because of her protected speech.” The 21-year-old, who moved...
Over the past two weeks, even as Democratic Party leaders have opted for capitulation rather than forceful efforts to slow the Trump juggernaut, the judiciary has stirred to life. In the fight to protect basic constitutional norms such as the right to due process from the chainsaw massacres being unleashed by Donald Trump and Elon...
“The only purpose is to show a demonstration of power to us,” said outgoing Prime Minister Múte Egede. Greenland politicians have denounced plans for White House officials to travel to the island this week amid President Donald Trump’s demands to annex Greenland into the U.S. Second Lady Usha Vance is reportedly coming to the island...
President Donald Trump and members of his administration are describing a small number of vandalous actions taken against Tesla properties as “domestic terrorism,” threatening participants with exceptional prison sentences and the possibility of cruel and unusual punishment. Tesla is owned by “Department of Government Efficiency” head Elon Musk, who was also Trump’s largest donor during...
International outrage and charges of “viciousness” and “outright autocracy” have followed Sunday’s imprisonment of Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s top political rival, the popular Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, who is seen as Erdogan’s likeliest opposition challenger in upcoming national elections. The corruption charges levied against İmamoğlu, a member of the Republican People’s Party (CHP), are...
Legal advocacy groups have issued a sharp rebuke to U.S. President Donald Trump’s directive aimed at holding “accountable” law firms and lawyers that, according to him, “engage in frivolous, unreasonable, and vexatious litigation against the United States.” “Accountability is especially important when misconduct by lawyers and law firms threatens our national security, homeland security, public...
TIGER WOODS Golfer Tiger Woods has announced he is dating Vanessa Trump, the former daughter-in-law of US President Donald Trump. Vanessa, 47, was married to Donald Trump Jr for 13 years. The pair, who have five children, divorced in 2018. On Sunday, Woods, 49, posted pictures of Vanessa and himself on social media saying: “Love...
The two had a heated exchange over an executive order banning trans women and girls from playing in women’s sports. U.S. President Donald Trump took to his social media platform Truth Social on Saturday to demand an apology from Maine Gov. Janet Mills, a Democratic, after the two had a heated exchange at the White House in...
Experts and former employees say the Trump administration’s moves to fire key scientists at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and dismantle clean air and water protections will make the United States a “sicker and poorer” place to live while demoralizing the next generation of environmental investigators and public health researchers. The rollbacks could lead to...
