TOI Correspondent from Washington: US President and MAGA supremo Donald Trump is headed for an epic showdown with the judiciary after several judges in Democratic-governed states struck down executive moves on issues ranging from birthright citizenship, to freezing government spending, to DOGE teams access to sensitive Treasury Department systems. Judges from WashingtonDC, New York, Massachusetts,…
US President Donald Trump WASHINGTON: A US-funded transgender clinic in Hyderabad is among the thousands of programs fed into the “woodchipper” as Donald Trump’s MAGA minions led by Elon Musk gutted USAID, the US government’s main foreign aid agency, summarily firing most of 10,000 plus work force in the US and overseas. Long festering resentment…
TOI CORRESPONDENT FROM WASHINGTON:Donald Trump hadn’t even taken the oath of office as President. The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) hadn’t even been formally constituted. But Vivek Ramaswamy, the junior of the two principals (Elon Musk is the other) in DOGE, has already been shown the door. The Indian-American technopreneur, a Trump critics-turned- loyalist, has…
The big day has finally arrived, and Washington, DC, is buzzing like a hive of anticipation. Donald J. Trump, the man who has turned political norms into ash and risen again like a phoenix draped in red, white, and blue, is set to take the oath of office for his second term. MAGA faithful have…
There’s a theory out there—wild, audacious, but surprisingly hard to dismiss—that just about everything worth celebrating in Western civilization was dreamed up, built, or perfected by Jews. From splitting the atom to decoding life itself, from rewriting the rules of music to redefining what it means to be human, Jewish brilliance turned the world into…
Jagdish Bhagwati, the influential economist who’s taught at MIT and Columbia in the US for over half a century, once described Indians as the new Jews in America, successful in all fields except the mafia. He may have meant it in a lighter vein, but there’s lots of data to back up what he said….
TOI Correspondent from Washington: The oldest man to win the US Presidency will have the youngest press secretary in White House history.MAGA supremo and President-elect Donald Trump on Friday named Karoline Leavitt, 27, as the White House press secretary, one of the most visible jobs in the world, continuing his rapid staffing of an administration…
TOI Correspondent from Washington: Cherrypicking data from the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics jobs report during a heated election campaign, some pro-Trump economists and the MAGA media are alleging foreign-born workers are scoring “nearly all job gains” at the expense of native-born Americans amid a toxic undercurrent of resentment and racial abuse of Indian tech…
TOI CORRESPONDENT FROM WASHINGTON: Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes, a female Democrat, has opened an investigation into comments by MAGA supremo Donald Trump wondering how “war hawk” Liz Cheney would feel if guns were “trained on her face” as a potentially prosecutable offense, amid a raging gender clash in the US Presidential election. “I have…
TOI Correspondent from Washington: Americans are bracing for gridlock on November 5/6 with fervid talk in political circles about voting fraud and stolen elections. Partisan judges and litigators in a deeply polarized country are already duking it out in courts, questioning voter registrations and balloting procedures amid wild conspiracy theories that do not augur well…
