By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Correspondent United States (US) President Donald Trump has signalled plans to impose sharply higher tariffs on imported pharmaceuticals, warning that rates could climb to as much as 250 percent within 18 months. In an interview with CNBC on Tuesday, Trump said the duties would start at a lower rate before ...
By Joke Kujenya THE UNITED States House of Representatives has approved a sweeping $9 billion rescissions package, delivering President Donald Trump his second major legislative win in less than six months and setting the stage for a dramatic rollback in federal spending on foreign aid and public broadcasting. Passed by a narrow 216-213 margi...
By Joke Kujenya VISIBLE SWELLING in the lower legs and bruising on the right hand prompted a medical evaluation that confirmed United States President Donald Trump has a common but non-serious vein condition. The White House on Thursday identified the issue as chronic venous insufficiency, a circulatory disorder frequently observed in individ...
By JKNewsMedia with Agency Reports CUSTOMS DUTY revenues surged to historic highs in June, helping deliver a rare $27billion monthly budget surplus and signalling the growing weight of President Donald Trump’s tariff regime as a key funding pillar for the United States (US) government. Treasury data released on Friday confirmed that customs d...
By Owei Lakemfa THE GREAT warmonger of our time, Benjamin Netanyahu, wanted by the International Criminal Court, ICC, for war crimes and genocide has proposed President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize. The Israeli Prime Minister, an expert in infanticide and the strategic deployment of starvation to wipe out resistant peoples, handed o...
By Joke Kujenya UNITED STATES (US) President Donald Trump has received a formal nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, following efforts to secure a ceasefire during the recent 12-day conflict. The letter of nomination was personally handed to Trump during a White House dinner, where Netanyahu com...
By Joke Kujenya IRANIAN NUCLEAR facilities sustained significant damage in weekend airstrikes carried out by US B-2 bombers, Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Esmail Baghaei has confirmed. Speaking to Al Jazeera, Baghaei declined to provide detailed assessments but acknowledged that the impact was “badly damaging.” “Our nuclear installations h...
By Joke Kujenya UNITED STATES President Donald Trump has acknowledged and accepted Elon Musk’s public apology over recent social media attacks, calling the gesture “very nice.” President Trump however stopped short of confirming whether their fractured relationship would be repaired. Earlier on Thursday evening, Musk had admitted that he had ...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Reporter MARKETS REELED as a high-stakes confrontation between United States (US) President Donald Trump and Elon Musk sent Tesla shares into freefall, wiping more than $150 billion off the automaker’s market value. The fallout from their deteriorating relationship, once defined by cautious collaboration, ha...
By Joke Kujenya MOUNTING POLITICAL tension and spiralling budget disputes has ended Elon Musk’s short-lived tenure at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) in the United States government, where his mission to slash federal waste collided with the realities of entrenched bureaucracy. He described the effort as “an uphill battle” and ...
