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Getty Images A jump in energy and food prices hit the US last month, as progress stabilising prices remained elusive. On average, prices in December were up 2.9% compared with a year earlier, up from 2.7% in November, the Labor Department said. Energy prices accounted for more than 40% of the rise in inflation last […]
President-elect Donald J. Trump on Wednesday named a Florida county commissioner to serve as his ambassador to Panama, a few days after Mr. Trump called for the United States to assert control over the Panama Canal. Kevin Marino Cabrera, the District 6 commissioner of Miami-Dade County and the vice chairman of its International Trade Consortium, […]
Getty Images Mark Burnett, pictured with Trump in 2010, produced him on The Apprentice for seven years US President-elect Donald Trump has appointed British TV executive Mark Burnett, who produced him on The Apprentice, as his special envoy to the UK. Trump said it was his “great honour” to pick his former colleague for the […]
Donald Trump has tapped Kashyap “Kash” Patel to be FBI director, nominating a loyalist and “deep state” critic to lead the federal law enforcement agency that the president-elect has long slammed as corrupt. Patel, 44, has worked as a federal prosecutor and a public defender but rose to prominence in Trump circles after expressing outrage […]
President-elect Donald Trump announced Saturday that he has selected Charles Kushner as his pick for ambassador to France. Mr Kushner is a real-estate developer and the father of Jared Kushner, husband of his daughter Ivanka Trump. Trump pardoned Mr Kushner during his first term, waving away a federal conviction in 2020. In a post to […]
The mother of Pete Hegseth, US President-elect Donald Trump’s choice for Secretary of Defence, accused him of mistreating women over the years and exhibiting a lack of moral character. The 2018 email, made public by The New York Times, painted a damning picture of his character. “On behalf of all the women (and I know […]
Outgoing US President Joe Biden, during his Black Friday shopping, picked up a book on Israel and Palestine that raised eyebrows. The selected book describes the establishment of Israel as ‘colonialism’ that met with Palestinian ‘resistance’, a position that is viewed as contrary to that of the United States. Biden took The Hundred Years’ War […]
Retiring President Biden hit the shops on Black Friday and surprised onlookers by picking up a copy of a book describing the establishment of Israel as “colonialism” that’s been met with Palestinian “resistance” — an acquisition its author bemoaned was “4 years too late.” Biden, 82, left Nantucket Bookworks holding in full view of the […]
Refresh 2024-11-28T10:44:53.169Z A tip for today One thing I often get asked in the week of Black Friday, particular on the couple of days before the big day itself it ‘should I wait for Friday or buy [This Thing] now?’ While we might see a flurry of new deals appear on Black Friday itself, nowadays […]