In Las Vegas, several Tesla vehicles were set ablaze outside a Tesla service centre, where the word “resist” was also painted in red across the building’s front doors.
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It’s splashdown on Earth for Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore after 9 months in space
Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore checked out with NASA’s Nick Hague and Russia’s Alexander Gorbunov, who arrived in their own SpaceX capsule last fall with two empty seats reserved for the Starliner duo. Wilmore and Williams ended up spending 286 days in space — 278 days longer than anticipated when they launched.
Trump shares Modi’s podcast with Lex Fridman on his Truth Social handle
During the interaction lasting over three hours, Narendra Modi on Sunday said that he and Donald Trump connected well, as both put their respective countries first. Modi asserted that this mutual trust had remained unshaken even when Trump, the Republican Party leader, was out of office during Democratic Party leader Joe Biden’s presidency.
Donald Trump ordered Washington DC tent, graffiti clean-up before visits by Modi, Macron, Starmer
“We’re cleaning up our city. We’re cleaning up this great capital, and we’re not going to have crime, and we’re not going to stand for crime, and we’re going to take the graffiti down, and we’re already taking the tents down, and we’re working with the administration,” said Trump, in remarks at the Department of Justice.
12 injured as American Airlines plane catches fire at Denver airport gate
Flight 1006, which was headed from the Colorado Springs Airport to Dallas Fort Worth, diverted to Denver and landed safely around 5.15pm after the crew reported engine vibrations, the Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement.
Trump names “highly respected entrepreneur” Anji Sinha as new US Ambassador to Singapore
Announcing his nominee on Truth Social, President Trump said: “Anji is a highly respected entrepreneur, with an incredible family. The United States’ relationship with Singapore is vital, and I have no doubt that Anji will strongly represent our nation’s interests, and put America first.”
Ukraine carries out huge drone attack on Russia, even as US-mediated peace talks start in Saudi Arabia
The peace talks offer an opportunity for Kyiv officials to repair Ukraine’s relationship with the Trump Administration after an unprecedented argument erupted during Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s February 28 visit to the White House, where he interacted with US President Donald Trump in front of the media.
US share market sell-off: Dow drops 1,042 points as Wall Street gets spooked by spectre of “Trump recession”
The worry is that the whipsaw moves by the Trump Administration will either hurt the US economy directly or create enough uncertainty to drive US companies and consumers into an economy-freezing paralysis. The S&P 500 was down 9.1 per cent from its all-time high set on February 19.
Is US headed for “Trump recession”? Economic worries mount over tariff wars, workforce cuts, spending freeze
The US federal government reduced its payrolls by 10,000 in a potential harbinger of the alarm being sounded by the stock market, consumer confidence and other measures of where the economy is headed. Since January, the economic policy uncertainty index has spiked 41 per cent to a level, 334.5, that in the past signalled a recession.
Donald Trump says “India charges us auto tariffs higher than 100%”; announces tit-for-tat US tariffs globally from April 2
Trump said on March 4 night, in an address to the Joint Session of the Congress, the first of his second term in the White House, “Other countries have used tariffs against us for decades and now it’s our turn to start using them against those other countries. On [an] average, the European Union, China, Brazil, India — Mexico and Canada, have you heard of them — and countless other nations charge us tremendously higher tariffs than we charge them. It’s very unfair.”
