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In Britain, a languishing prime minister is suddenly a statesman, while his up-and-coming populist rival has been thrown on his heels. In Canada, the incumbent Liberal Party has a chance to win an election long thought out of reach. In Germany, the incoming center-right chancellor is dominating the agenda after an election many feared would be a breakthrough for the hard right.As President Trump’s “shock and awe” policies radiate around the world, they are reshaping global politics in unforeseen ways.Mr. Trump’s sweeping tariffs and threats to the trans-Atlantic alliance have breathed life into centrist leaders, who are regaining popularity for…
US Secretary of Education Linda McMahon says administration will work with the US Congress to abolish department.The United States Department of Education has announced it will lay off almost half of its employees as President Donald Trump moves to fulfil his campaign promise to dismantle the agency. The department said on Tuesday that it would reduce the size of its workforce to roughly 2,183 employees by placing staff on administrative leave from March 21. It said it would continue to provide “all statutory programs” falling under its purview, including student loans and funding for special needs students. The cuts follow…
Voting was extended at some polling stations amid high turnout in an election dominated by Trump’s promise to control the strategic Arctic island.Unofficial results in Greenland’s election are expected to emerge shortly after polling closed in a vote that will determine which leaders confront United States President Donald Trump’s pledge to take control of the strategically placed Arctic country. Voting was extended by half an hour past a 22:00 GMT deadline on Tuesday amid high voter turnout at several of the 72 polling stations across the mineral-rich island, where 40,500 people were eligible to cast their ballot. There were no…
Marc Benioff, Chairman & CEO of Salesforce, speaking on CNBC’s Squawk Box outside the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Jan. 22nd, 2025. Gerry Miller | CNBCSalesforce on Wednesday announced plans to invest $1 billion in Singapore over the next five years.The cloud software giant said the investment is designed to accelerate the country’s digital transformation and the adoption of Salesforce’s flagship AI offering Agentforce.Salesforce is among the many technology companies hoping to boost revenue with generative AI features.The company launched the newest version of Agentforce last month. It has previously described the system — which it says can tackle…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Most Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders do not agree with the strategy of putting entire federal agencies on the chopping block, nor are they broadly on board with mass layoffs of federal workers, according to a new poll.The survey, released Wednesday from AAPI Data and The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, shows that AAPI adults want the government to concentrate more on everyday costs. They feel the federal government should do more to address high prices. About 8 in 10 AAPI adults say the federal government should make health care costs “a high…
Ahead of a Wednesday hearing where lawyers for a Palestinian activist who is a legal permanent U.S. resident will challenge his planned deportation, the State Department and White House pointed to a provision that allows green card holders to be removed from the country if they present “potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences for the United States.”“In such cases, the Secretary of State notifies the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, who has the authority to initiate removal charges,” a State Department spokesperson said in response to questions about the circumstances of Mahmoud Khalil’s arrest.Khalil, a recent Columbia University…
Ucrania aseguró que apoyaría una propuesta del gobierno de Donald Trump para un alto al fuego de 30 días con Rusia, un anuncio que se divulgó después de horas de reuniones celebradas el martes en Arabia Saudita, en las que Estados Unidos acordó terminar de manera inmediata la pausa en el intercambio de inteligencia y reanudar la asistencia militar a Kiev.Las conversaciones en la ciudad costera de Yeda, Arabia Saudita, dieron un nuevo impulso a las negociaciones sobre un cese al fuego, que se habían tambaleado tras una confrontación pública en la Casa Blanca entre los presidentes de Ucrania y…
Russian forces have begun an assault on the town of Sudzha, the main population center in the Kursk region that was captured by Ukraine last year, a top Russian commander said on Tuesday. The advance puts Moscow on the verge of ending the first invasion of Russian territory since World War II.“We have surrounded Sudzha from almost all sides,” Lt. Gen. Apti Alaudinov, a top Russian commander in Kursk, told Russian state television on Tuesday.Russia’s recent rapid moves around Sudzha have erased a large share of the territorial gains made by Ukrainian forces during their surprise attack into western Russia…
The Justice Department and F.B.I. investigation into whether the global antidoping authority and China covered up the positive tests of Chinese Olympic swimmers who went on to win medals at the past two Summer Games has continued under the Trump administration, according to a draft document obtained by The New York Times.The document, which the World Anti-Doping Agency plans to provide to its executive committee for a meeting this month, said that federal officials interviewed an employee of the agency who is an American citizen on Feb. 12 as part of the continuing investigation.The investigation began under the Biden administration…
In a span of only 50 days, President Trump has done more than any of his modern predecessors to hollow out the foundations of an international system that the United States painstakingly erected in the 80 years since it emerged victorious from World War II.Without formally declaring a reversal of course or offering a strategic rationale, he has pushed the United States to switch sides in the Ukraine war, abandoning all talk about helping a nascent, flawed democracy defend its borders against a larger invader. He did not hesitate when he ordered the United States to vote with Russia and…