It isn’t just football fans and Uefa executives who want to give Gianni Infantino the red card for his plan to sell off 20% of the World Cup to a privately backed commercial enterprise. The Fifa president is also in the crosshairs of the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee in Washington and ranking Democrat member … Read more
Washington (AFP) — — President Donald Trump on Thursday appeared to add a condition to a newly signed agreement with Saudi Arabia over a civilian nuclear program, saying the deal would require the kingdom to normalize its relations with Israel through the Abraham Accords. When the deal was announced on Wednesday, neither the US Department … Read more
President Trump must provide detailed information about his finances to BBC lawyers in his $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the venerable BBC, a federal magistrate judge in Miami ruled Tuesday. The president had accused Bibb of defaming him through deceptive editing of his Ellipse speech on January 6, 2021, before the Capitol riot that delayed … Read more
Left-wing comedian Jon Stewart did a double take on Monday after spotting a man who closely resembled the commander-in-chief — whom he called a “back-up Trump” — strolling near the president. “The Daily Show” host focused on the president’s lookalike after the game section From Trump’s statements to reporters at Joint Base Andrews after the … Read more
The Trump administration announced Monday that it will impose an additional 50% tariffs on Canada on certain goods imported into the United States, citing Canada’s response to Trump’s tariffs in 2025. On a call with reporters this afternoon to announce the tariffs, a senior administration official said the measure is intended to “hold accountable” Canada … Read more
National news As the first matches prepared to begin, the administration continued to find itself under global scrutiny for its visa decisions, such as denying entry to a referee from Somalia who had been decorated for his management. President Donald Trump listens as FIFA President Gianni Infantino speaks at a reception at Trump Tower in … Read more
It ended almost as Gianni Infantino and Donald Trump had planned. Earlier on a seemingly endless World Cup final day, the trophy had, in a scene perfectly of a piece with the event’s excess, been let out of a Louis Vuitton trunk. Now they shuffled up to the podium together and presented it to a … Read more
Donald Trump and Gianni Infantino were booed as they took to the field for the presentation ceremony before the US president attempted to gatecrash Spain’s victory party. Trump arrived at the stadium on Marine One, with the president’s helicopter first flying over the stadium about 45 minutes before kick-off. He sat in a glassed-in section … Read more
National news “The President and his allies cannot hold important programs hostage to their personal whims and political ideologies, destabilizing the country by taking away essential federal funding already given to the states.” Russell Vaught, acting director of the Office of Management and Budget, testifies before the semiannual report of the House Finance Committee on … Read more
The thick smoke that has engulfed New York and much of the eastern seaboard over the past few days has drawn wry smiles in Dallas and Los Angeles, where locals will watch on with a sense of schadenfreude when the World Cup final takes place in the New York New Jersey Stadium (usually known as … Read more