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September 17, 2025 5:21 PM

Fed expected to cut rates, update views of Trump economic plan with new projections

The most politically charged U.S. Federal Reserve meeting in years wraps up on Wednesday with broad expectations for a quarter-percentage-point interest rate cut that may spark dissents from some policymakers who feel it is too small and too late and others who feel it is not warranted at all. Just as critical as that decision will be an updated slate of projections showing where policymakers see the economy and monetary policy heading eight months into President Donald Trump's extensive rewrit...

September 16, 2025 10:31 PM

Trump files $15 billion defamation case against New York Times, Penguin Random House

President Donald Trump has filed a $15 billion defamation lawsuit against the New York Times and book publisher Penguin Random House, his latest legal assault on major media companies he accuses of treating him unfairly. The lawsuit filed on Monday in Florida federal court centers on a book about Trump by two New York Times reporters and three "false, malicious, defamatory, and disparaging" articles that he says were aimed at sabotaging his chances in the 2024 presidential election. In a state...

September 15, 2025 9:44 AM

‘Criminal will be prosecuted to fullest extent of law’: Trump vows justice for Indian national killed in Dallas

US President Donald Trump on Sunday vowed that the accused in the brutal murder of Indian national Chandra Nagamallaiah will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law and charged with first-degree murder. According to local police, Chandra Nagamallaiah, 50, was attacked with a machete outside the Downtown Suites motel in east Dallas in the early hours of September 10. The attack, which occurred in front of the victim’s wife and child, reportedly followed an argument. In a post on Truth ...

September 12, 2025 2:32 PM

‘No spillover effect from trade tension’: Defence Secretary on US tariffs

Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh on Friday said there has been “no spillover effect” from the ongoing trade tensions between India and the United States, emphasising that defence collaboration between the two countries has continued unhindered despite the imposition of 50 per cent tariffs. “On defence, there is no spillover effect from the trade tension that you mentioned. I think those trade tensions are also easing now, and we have resumed our negotiations with them. Hopefully, it w...

September 12, 2025 10:07 AM

Trump India ambassador nominee Sergio Gor touts warm US-India ties, sees tariff deal soon

U.S. President Donald Trump's nominee to be ambassador to India said on Thursday that Washington and New Delhi are "not that far apart" on tariffs at a hearing in which he and Trump's fellow Republicans described warm bilateral ties despite recent tensions. In a highly unusual move, Secretary of State Marco Rubio made a surprise appearance at the hearing to introduce Sergio Gor, the nominee. India is "one of the top relationships the United States has in the world today in terms of the future o...

September 12, 2025 9:42 AM

Investigators in Charlie Kirk killing find weapon, release images of person of interest

U.S. investigators on Thursday released photos and a video of a person of interest in the fatal shooting of influential conservative activist Charlie Kirk and said they had found the rifle believed to have been used in the politically charged killing. Kirk, a 31-year-old author, podcast host and close ally of U.S. President Donald Trump, helped build the Republican Party's support among younger voters. He was killed on Wednesday by a single gunshot as he gave a talk at a university in Utah in w...

September 11, 2025 9:32 PM

President Trump, First Lady Melania attend 24th anniversary of 9/11 attack

US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump on Thursday attended a solemn ceremony at the Pentagon to mark the 24th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, which claimed 2,977 lives. The attacks occurred after four hijacked planes struck key locations in the United States — two hitting the World Trade Center in New York, one crashing into the Pentagon, and another downed in a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. At Ground Zero in New York, the annual tradition of r...

September 11, 2025 9:23 PM

Trump announces Presidential Medal of Freedom for slain activist Charlie Kirk

US President Donald Trump on Thursday announced that conservative activist Charlie Kirk will be awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the country’s highest civilian honour, following his death in a shooting at Utah Valley University. Speaking at a ceremony outside the Pentagon to mark the 24th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, Trump remembered Kirk as a “giant of his generation” and an inspiration to millions. “Charlie was a champion of liberty and an inspiration to countle...

September 11, 2025 3:37 PM

India-US trade talks on track, first tranche expected by November: Piyush Goyal

Union Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal on Thursday said that the first tranche of the India-US trade deal is expected to be finalised by November. He noted that discussions between the two countries are progressing in a positive direction and that both sides are satisfied with the outcomes so far. Speaking to reporters in poll-bound Bihar, Goyal recalled that in February, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump had instructed their ministers to work on the pact an...

September 11, 2025 9:18 AM

America on edge: Experts warn of “vicious spiral” in political violence after Charlie Kirk’s killing

The assassination of right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk marks a watershed moment in a surge of U.S. political violence, one that some experts fear will inflame an already-fractured country and inspire more unrest. ”This event is horrifying, alarming, but not necessarily surprising,” said Mike Jensen, a researcher at the University of Maryland, which has tracked such violence in a terrorism database since 1970. In the first six months of the year, the U.S. experienced about 150 politically-...