Kenya’s trade minister says Nairobi is engaging Trump regime to renew AGOA treaty
The current agreement, which provides duty-free access to the US market for Kenyan exports, is set to expire in September this year.
Costly feud: Elon Musk rants so much about government pork, but his businesses rely on state largesse
The dispute comes just a week before a planned test of Tesla’s driverless taxis in Austin, Texas, a major event for the company because sales of its EVs are lagging in many markets, and Musk needs a win.
Republicans in House, Senate on the edge over 2026 midterm elections as Trump-Musk feud
Their buddy-movie dynamic evaporated this week as Musk and Trump openly feuded over a sweeping tax-cut and spending bill that Musk blasted as likely to add significantly to the federal government’s $36.2 trillion in debt. He called for Trump’s impeachment – something the Republican-controlled Congress is unlikely to take up – and mused publicly about the creation of a new political party.
Trump advised to deport ‘illegal alien’ Musk as row with world’s powerful and wealthiest man threatens US defence systems
Bannon urged the president to immediately invoke the Defence Production Act to take control of Musk’s rocket company in response to the billionaire entrepreneur’s declaration that he would decommission the SpaceX craft used to shuttle astronauts back and forth from the International Space Station (ISS).
Trump, Elon Musk brawl over contracts and impeachment as their bromance turns murky
The trouble between the two started brewing days ago, when Musk denounced Trump’s sweeping tax-cut and spending bill. The president initially held his tongue while Musk campaigned to torpedo the bill, saying it would add too much to the nation’s $36.2 trillion in debt.
Defiant Harvard calls Trump suspension of international students illegal retaliation, violation of rights
Trump’s proclamation cited national security concerns as a justification for barring international students from entering the United States to pursue studies at the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based university.
Nationals of six African countries among 12 others banned from entering US on terrorism concerns
The countries affected are Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen.
India, Europe and US carmakers alarms rise after China slams brakes on critical mineral exports
Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping are expected to talk this week, White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt told reporters on Tuesday, and the export ban is expected to be high on the agenda.
Man who secured conviction of terrorist involved in Kenya, Tanzania bombings to be deputy attorney in Manhattan in US
While a prosecutor, Sean Buckley brought charges against a Vietnamese man who pleaded guilty in 2016 to plotting to detonate an explosive in London’s Heathrow Airport, and secured the 2015 trial conviction of a top Osama bin Laden deputy in connection with the 1998 bombings of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
Civil society exposes FDA and CDC failure to monitor, report Covid vaccine safety signals as millions died
Evans said that for any potential safety signals detected through either method of data mining, the FDA and CDC “promised to investigate whether the adverse events associated with the signals were caused by the shots.”
