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Trump sides with Musk in worker visa row

Shawdesh Desk: Donald Trump weighed in Saturday in a bitter debate dividing his traditional supporters and tech barrons like Elon Musk, saying that he backed a special visa programme that

Trump asks US Supreme Court to pause law threatening TikTok ban

Shawdesh desk: US President-elect Donald Trump filed a brief Friday urging the Supreme Court to pause a law that would ban TikTok the day before his January 20 inauguration if it is

Bill Clinton hospitalized with fever but in good spirits

Shawdesh Desk: Former President Bill Clinton was admitted Monday to MedStar Georgetown University Hospital in Washington after developing a fever. The 78-year-old was hospitalized in the “afternoon for testing and

Tulip Siddiq interrogated in United Kingdom over corruption claims

Shawdesh Desk: Tulip Siddiq, a United Kingdom labour minister and niece of Bangladesh’s ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, has been questioned over claims she and her family members embezzled £4b

US Congress passes bill to avert shutdown

Shawdesh desk: The US Congress averted a Christmastime government shutdown early Saturday after weeks of tense negotiations that went down to the wire, passing a bill to fund federal agencies

Trump opposes deal to avert government shutdown

Shawdesh Desk: US president-elect Donald Trump urged Republican lawmakers Wednesday to scupper a cross-party deal to avert a fast-looming US government shutdown. Staring down a Friday night deadline to fund

Student, teacher killed in US school shooting

Shawdesh desk: A teenage student opened fire Monday at a school in the northern US state of Wisconsin, killing two and wounding several others before being found dead, officials said.

77 Nobel laureates sign letter opposing RFK Jr. as Trump’s health secretary

Shawdesh Desk: Seventy-seven Nobel prize winners on Monday sent an open letter to the US Senate opposing the nomination of Robert F Kennedy Jr., president-elect Donald Trump’s choice for secretary