scorecardresearch
Add as a preferred source on Google
Thursday, November 13, 2025
TopicTrump administration

Topic: Trump administration

US bans cotton imports from China’s Xinjiang producer over ‘slave labour’

Trump administration and other critics have targeted cotton from China, which supplies about one-third of US apparel, as a way to increase pressure over mass detention of Uighurs.

Now, Saudi Arabia and Qatar are nearing a US-brokered deal to end their 3-year rift

The rapprochement is likely to include reopening air space and land borders, an end to the information war Qatar and Saudi Arabia have waged.

US court blocks two H-1B visa regulations proposed by Trump administration

The policies set aside were one that required employers to pay foreign workers on H-1B significantly higher wages & another that narrowed eligibility valued by US tech firms.

Lawyer dropped from Trump legal team had filed election suits in ‘DISTRCOICT’ court

Sidney Powell, who filed typo-strewn lawsuits in Michigan and Georgia, was kicked off Trump’s legal team after her claims about a Democratic conspiracy against the president.

Biden’s Homeland Security pick won’t embrace open borders

Joe Biden probably will reverse many of Donald Trump’s initiatives on immigration, but his policy is unlikely to swing in a direction radically opposite to the one under Trump.

Trump administration blocking access to US resources hurts Covid fight, say Biden’s advisers

Biden's transition team has been blocked from accessing federal resources by Trump's administration, a move the president-elects' advisers say will cause a delay in operations.

Shocked, but not surprised — a mantra for the Trump era

The turn of phrase isn’t new — a form is attested at least as early as 1800 — but if you sense that it’s being applied more frequently, you’re right.

TikTok gets reprieve on Trump administration’s demand for app ban

For months, the app’s Chinese owner, ByteDance Ltd., has faced the prospect of a US ban starting Thursday. But judges have blocked those prohibitions from going into effect.

Trump administration proposes to scrap computerised lottery system for H1B visas

The US govt proposes to replace it with a wage-level-based selection process to help counter the downward pressure on the wages of American workers.

Trump’s top aide admits US can’t control Covid pandemic, Biden says govt waving white flag

White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, in an interview, said control of the virus was not a realistic goal because it is 'contagious just like the flu'.

On Camera

This era has made journalistic independence harder than ever: New York Times publisher

Journalist Arthur Gregg Sulzberger delivered the Reuters Memorial Lecture on 4 March last year.

Inflation plunges to a 10-yr low of 0.25% in October. Here’s why

Record-low inflation gives RBI room to ease rates. Food prices have something to do with it.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.