How controversial is Trump’s pick of RFK Jr as US health secretary?
On Thursday, US President-elect Donald Trump nominated vaccine sceptic Robert F Kennedy Jr to head up the country’s top health ...
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‘Need a change’: Sri Lanka’s leftist win sparks hopes, bridges old divides
Colombo, Sri Lanka – Abdul Rahuman Seyyadu Sulaiman, 56, wanted to be heard. As Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake left ...
House Speaker Johnson resists calls to make Matt Gaetz ethics report public
The leading politician in the United States House of Representatives, Speaker Mike Johnson, has resisted calls to release a report ...
Trump Pick Love Cheat Pete Hegseth Was Probed Over Alleged Sex Assault
Police in California have confirmed they investigated an alleged sexual assault involving Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump’s pick for defense secretary.The ...
Clanging pans: Why Mozambique’s election protesters refuse to go away
Maputo, Mozambique – At 7pm on November 4, Maputo’s streets fell into an eerie silence. Public transportation was at a ...
Trump picks RFK Jr. for Health and Human Services secretary
President-elect Donald Trump said Thursday that he will nominate vaccine skeptic and conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as secretary ...
Polymarket’s Shayne Coplan was raided by the FBI: What it means
In early November, Shayne Coplan had a week he will remember for the rest of his life: He received a ...
Top real-estate CEO suggests young people voted for Trump because they’re sick of living in their parents’ basements
Donald Trump will be president once again, having convinced voters he was the man to solve it all: the economy, ...
Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency will ironically require two men to run it
The incoming Trump administration’s solution to government spending is a new Department of Government Efficiency led by co-department chiefs: the ...
Sri Lanka parliamentary elections 2024: What’s at stake?
Sri Lankans will cast ballots in a snap parliamentary election on Thursday, months after electing a Marxist-leaning president in the ...
Somaliland eyes recognition as it goes to polls
Voting begins in Somaliland amid regional tensions and hopes for international recognition after 30 years of self-rule.Voting is under way ...
Trump says Musk, Ramaswamy to lead government efficiency effort
Billionaire Elon Musk and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy will lead a new Department of Government Efficiency tasked to “dismantle Government Bureaucracy, ...
Elon Musk spent millions bolstering Trump, but the president ‘goes through people like tissues,’ says Kara Swisher
Two male betta fish can’t share a tank, for fears of them being highly territorial and aggressive to the point ...
Trump criminal case ruling delayed by election
In this courtroom sketch, former U.S. president Donald Trump appears by video conferencing before Judge Juan Merchan during a hearing ...
Opposition secures landslide victory in Mauritius election
Former prime minister Navin Ramgoolam has won a third term in the Indian Ocean nation, official results show.Opposition leader Navin ...
Trump 2.0: Who has US president-elect picked for his new administration?
United States President-elect Donald Trump has wasted little time in choosing officials to take up key roles in his incoming ...
13 women will be governors next year—a new record
The election of Republican Kelly Ayotte as New Hampshire’s governor means 13 women will serve as a state’s chief executive next year, ...
Democrats should have celebrated America’s stunning economic success–but they were intimidated by progressives
Everyone was surprised by the magnitude of President-elect Donald Trump’s victory in the electoral college and popular vote landslide over ...
Biden will push Trump to back Ukraine in transition meeting: Adviser
United States President Joe Biden will try to convince President-elect Donald Trump not to pull support from Ukraine when he ...
With US House election gains, Republicans close in on unified power
Republicans are five seats short of a majority in the House of Representatives, with 20 races still uncalled.Republicans are edging ...
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