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July 30, 2025 9:17 PM

Fed to hold rates steady despite Trump’s push for big cuts

The Federal Reserve is expected to leave interest rates unchanged on Wednesday, even as President Donald Trump continued to push the U.S. central bank to cut borrowing costs. Trump, who last week made a rare presidential visit to the Fed's headquart...

July 29, 2025 10:42 AM

Trump says he is not seeking summit with Xi, but may visit China

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he was not seeking a summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping, but added that he may visit China at Xi's invitation, which Trump said had been extended. "I may go to China, but it would only be at the...

July 25, 2025 2:22 PM

White House touts Columbia deal, critics see dangerous precedent

Columbia University's agreement to pay more than $220 million to the U.S. government to resolve federal probes was not capitulation but a means to restore vital public funding, the university's acting president said on Thursday. But critics expresse...

July 25, 2025 9:43 AM

Trump says he wants Musk and his companies to thrive in US

President Donald Trump said on Thursday he would not destroy Elon Musk's companies by taking away federal subsidies and that he wants the billionaire tech entrepreneur's businesses to thrive. The remarks follow a public clash with his former close a...

July 23, 2025 11:06 AM

Trump pulls US out of UN cultural agency UNESCO for second time

President Donald Trump has decided to pull the United States out of the "woke" and "divisive" U.N. culture and education agency UNESCO, the White House said on Tuesday, repeating a move he took in his first term that was reversed by Joe Biden. The w...

July 22, 2025 4:06 PM

Trump’s Golden Dome looks for alternatives to Musk’s SpaceX

The Trump administration is expanding its search for partners to build the Golden Dome missile defense system, courting Amazon.com's Project Kuiper and big defense contractors as tensions with Elon Musk threaten SpaceX's dominance in the program, acc...

July 22, 2025 12:06 PM

Trump releases Martin Luther King assassination files

The U.S. Justice Department on Monday released more than 240,000 pages of documents related to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., including records from the FBI, which had surveilled the civil rights leader as part of an effort to discredit...

 

Last updated on: 12th Oct 2025