News Muncher - searching for presidents

15 hours, 25 minutes ago

Honda and Nissan expected to begin merger talks

TOKYO: Honda and Nissan were poised Monday to announce the start of talks on a merger to help the Japanese giants catch up with Chinese rivals and Tesla on electric vehicles. Honda and Nissan -- Japan's number two and three automakers after Toyota -- are aiming to finalise a merger deal in June 2025, several media outlets said. Mitsubishi Motors, …

China Japan Japanese Honda Vehicle Foxconn Merger

19 hours, 20 minutes ago

South Korean acting president faces impeachment threat over Yoon probe delay

India Today

South Korea's main opposition party threatened on Monday to impeach acting president Han Duck-soo if he failed to proclaim a law to launch a special counsel investigation into President Yoon Suk Yeol's failed bid to impose martial law. The party, which has accused Han of aiding Yoon's martial law attempt and reported him to police, said it would "immediately initiate …

President Yoon Han Park

1 day, 19 hours ago

Donald Trump taps the 'Apprentice' producer Mark Burnett as UK special envoy

India Today

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.: Mark Burnett, the power producer who helped reintroduce Donald Trump to a national television audience with “The Apprentice,” is being tapped by the president-elect as special envoy to the United Kingdom in his upcoming administration. The selection of Burnett continues Trump’s trend of filling out his incoming administration with people who have high-profile backgrounds in television …

Television Trump Mark Special Nbc Burnett Special Envoy

1 day, 19 hours ago

The ABC Settlement Is Just the Start of Trump’s Press Crackdown. History Shows Us What Comes Next.

Politico

But as Lincoln’s crackdown on Fuller demonstrates, Trump’s anti-press stance is hardly unprecedented. The first wholesale assault on the free press in American history occurred during the administration of John Adams, when tensions with France led many leaders of the president’s Federalist Party to support a Sedition Act, passed in 1798, that aimed to suppress dissent and criticism of the …

History War National Security Congress Trump Opposition Sedition

Trump taps ‘Apprentice’ producer, Mark Burnett, as special envoy to the United Kingdom

Associated Press

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Mark Burnett, the power producer who helped reintroduce Donald Trump to a national television audience with “The Apprentice,” is being tapped by the president-elect as special envoy to the United Kingdom in his upcoming administration. Trump’s first campaign in 2016 was rocked by allegations about his conduct on “The Apprentice” and other appearances during his …

Television Trump Mark Special Nbc Burnett Special Envoy

Google layoffs: Sundar Pichai announces 10 per cent job cuts in managerial roles amid rising AI competition

India TV News

In a significant move, Google has announced a 10 per cent reduction in managerial positions, including directors and vice presidents. This comes after Pichai’s 2022 statement expressing his vision for making Google 20 per cent more efficient. AI competition as a driving factor Reports suggest that Google's decision is aligned with its response to the competitive pressure from OpenAI, which …

Google Ai Pichai Sundar Pichai

4 days, 7 hours ago

Blinken will avoid Ukraine and the Middle East at a divided UN Security Council

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. With the U.N. Security Council more divided than ever, …

Security China War Ukraine Russia Sudan Council

4 days, 7 hours ago

Blinken announces aid for Sudan and talks about AI risks at UN Security Council

Associated Press

UNITED NATIONS — Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced $200 million in humanitarian aid for conflict-torn Sudan during what was likely his final trip to the United Nations while in office. With the U.N. Security Council more divided than ever, Blinken led two meetings of the U.N.’s most powerful body on Thursday, capping his engagements with the world body after …

Security China United Nations War Ukraine Russia Sudan

4 days, 19 hours ago

Letters to the Editor: The economy transcends presidents? Just wait till Trump fully embraces crypto

LA Times

To the editor: I take issue with Jonah Goldberg’s assertion that the U.S. economy transcends presidents. To the editor: The incoming Trump administration’s embrace of cryptocurrencies will certainly test Goldberg’s idea that presidents don’t have much effect on the economy. In the “good old days” of our country, there were the very rich and the very poor, until Franklin Delano …

Economy Trump Fully

5 days, 15 hours ago

Iran puts new stricter hijab law for women on hold: ‘Not feasible at the moment'

Firstpost

The controversial law, which was approved by the parliament in September 2023, will not be sent to the government as planned this week, according to one of the country’s vice presidents Iran has paused the process of implementing a new, stricter law on women’s mandatory headscarf, or hijab, an official said — a bill that many believe could have reignited …

Law Women Iran President Bill Hijab

5 days, 19 hours ago

Biden makes a last big push to keep Trump from killing the electric car

Politico

Trump has already vowed to undo California’s electric vehicle rules, similar to his effort five years ago to stop the state from imposing car and truck pollution standards more stringent than the federal government’s. The first Trump administration argued that California was effectively imposing fuel economy rules by regulating vehicles’ greenhouse gas emissions. AGAIN, MERRY CHRISTMAS!” Hallowed history Asked whether …

Car Pollution Trump Vehicles Air Electric Vehicles California

6 days, 19 hours ago

Column: The U.S. economy is doing very well. But don’t give too much credit to Biden — or Trump

LA Times

One of Donald Trump’s closing campaign arguments was that he would deliver a new “golden age” for America. That’s fitting insofar as Trump has rapidly eclipsed the current president, Joe Biden, in setting expectations and even an agenda for America at home and abroad. Don’t take my word for it: The cover of a special issue of the Economist in …

Economy Trump Economic America Biden American Different President

6 days, 19 hours ago

Judge rejects Trump’s bid to throw out Stormy Daniels hush money conviction

Al Jazeera

A New York judge rejected a claim by Trump’s lawyers that he is immune from prosecution as a former US president. A United States judge has rejected a claim by Donald Trump’s lawyers that the president-elect’s hush money conviction should be thrown out because the Supreme Court has ruled that former presidents are immune from prosecution. New York Judge Juan …

Trump Case New York President York Merchan

1 week ago

Americans to be paid to play in Ryder Cup for the first time

The Hindu

Americans will be paid to play in the Ryder Cup for the first time under a new PGA of America program announced on Monday that gives them a USD 200,000 stipend and USD 300,000 for them to distribute to charity. We’re talking 25 years that it’s been at USD 200,000,” Rea said in a telephone interview, adding that USD 500,000 …

Charity Players Money Play America Tour Cup

1 week ago

Expert calls bluff on Trump claim: He knows he's 'going to be embattled'

Raw Story

President-elect Donald Trump has claimed a massive mandate after his 2024 election win even though he did not even secure 50 percent of the popular vote and even though his party faces a razor-thin majority in the House of Representatives. But in an interview with NPR, Marquette University political science professor Julia Azari argues that Trump is claiming a mandate …

Trump

1 week ago

Supreme Court leaves in place ruling requiring former Trump adviser Peter Navarro to turn over presidential email records

CNN

CNN — The Supreme Court on Monday declined to wade into Peter Navarro’s yearslong battle with the government over presidential records, brushing aside an appeal from President-elect Donald Trump’s former trade adviser without hearing from the Biden administration in the case. The National Archives and Records Administration has demanded Navarro turn over presidential records he kept on his private email …

Supreme Court Court Trump Navarro Presidential Records

1 week, 1 day ago

Ashish Shelar’s new role as Maharashtra minister leaves BCCI treasurer post vacant

The Hindu

Ashish Shelar’s new role as a cabinet minister in the Maharashtra government means the Board of Control for Cricket in India will have one more slot vacant soon. As per the BCCI constitution Shelar, who has been the board’s treasurer since October 2022, will have to give up his role in cricket administration as ministers are barred from holding a …

Board Minister Shelar Vacant Position Bcci Constitution

1 week, 2 days ago

Who is Han Duck Soo, South Korea's new acting President after Yoon Suk Yeol's impeachment?

Hindustan Times

South Korea's prime minister Han Duck-Soo became the country's acting President following the impeachment of Yoon Suk Yeol on Saturday for his attempt to impose a short-lived martial law. Acting South Korean President and Prime Minister Han Duck-soo delivers an address to the nation at the government complex in Seoul, South Korea on December 14. Han also said his entire …

South Korea Acting South President Yoon Reuters Han

1 week, 3 days ago

'Gandhi Bharat' Program Key to Congress' 2028 Victory: DK Shivakumar

Deccan Chronicle

Belagavi: Deputy Chief Minister and KPCC President D.K. The remark was made during a preparatory meeting on Friday for the national-level 'Gandhi Bharat' event, scheduled for December 26-27, which marks the centenary of the Belagavi session presided over by Mahatma Gandhi. Speaking at the event, Shivakumar said, "With the 'Gandhi Bharat' program, Belagavi is making history. On December 26, the …

Congress Gandhi Committee Kharge Shivakumar Event Belagavi

1 week, 3 days ago

How does a new presidential administration look from the American West?

NPR

How does a new presidential administration look from the American West? The governors of New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming assess President-elect Donald Trump's incoming agenda — from energy to immigration. And I asked them to say something that's happening right now in each of their states, starting with Democrat Michelle Lujan Grisham of New Mexico. MICHELLE LUJAN GRISHAM: Holiday seasons …

States Trump Administration West New Mexico Mexico Western

1 week, 4 days ago

The US deep state and its discontents

Hindustan Times

The political firestorm over an alleged transnational “deep state” — comprising the investigative journalist network, Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, the Open Society Foundations of the billionaire financier George Soros, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the government of the United States — to “destabilise India” has brought crucial questions to the fore. During the Global War on Terrorism under President …

India Trump State President American Deep Deep State

1 week, 4 days ago

Peter Alphonse to oversee revamp of TNCC’s village committees

The Hindu

Tamil Nadu Congress Committee president K. Selvaperunthagai on Thursday announced the appointment of Peter Alphonse, Chairman of the State Minorities Commission and former Rajya Sabha member, as overall in-charge of the party’s effort to revamp and reenergise its village committees. “We have also appointed co-ordinators for the 39 parliamentary constituencies and will soon appoint co-ordinators for the 234 assembly constituencies,” …

Tamil Nadu Village Committees Selvaperunthagai Village Committees Oversee Revamp

1 week, 4 days ago

Why is so much of football’s power in the hands of ‘two random men’?

The Independent

Sign up to Miguel Delaney’s Reading the Game newsletter sent straight to your inbox for free Sign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s free weekly newsletter Sign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s free weekly newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Or, as one senior football figure put it, “like they’re the Vatican”. …

Football World Men Power Club World Cup Saudi Arabia Image

1 week, 4 days ago

Trump floats plan to let billionaire polluters 'bribe their way' past regulations

Raw Story

President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday floated a legally dubious proposal to let corporations and individuals who invest $1 billion or more in the U.S. bypass regulations, a scheme that environmental groups and government watchdogs said underscores the corrupt intentions of the incoming administration. The Associated Pressnoted Tuesday that Trump's push to let large investors evade regulations would itself likely run …

Environmental Trump Plan Moffitt

Filters

Search results for presidents

Honda and Nissan expected to begin merger talks

South Korean acting president faces impeachment threat over Yoon probe delay

Donald Trump taps the 'Apprentice' producer Mark Burnett as UK special envoy

The ABC Settlement Is Just the Start of Trump’s Press Crackdown. History Shows Us What Comes Next.

Trump taps ‘Apprentice’ producer, Mark Burnett, as special envoy to the United Kingdom

Google layoffs: Sundar Pichai announces 10 per cent job cuts in managerial roles amid rising AI competition

Blinken will avoid Ukraine and the Middle East at a divided UN Security Council

Blinken announces aid for Sudan and talks about AI risks at UN Security Council

Letters to the Editor: The economy transcends presidents? Just wait till Trump fully embraces crypto

Iran puts new stricter hijab law for women on hold: ‘Not feasible at the moment'

Biden makes a last big push to keep Trump from killing the electric car

Column: The U.S. economy is doing very well. But don’t give too much credit to Biden — or Trump

Judge rejects Trump’s bid to throw out Stormy Daniels hush money conviction

Americans to be paid to play in Ryder Cup for the first time

Expert calls bluff on Trump claim: He knows he's 'going to be embattled'

Supreme Court leaves in place ruling requiring former Trump adviser Peter Navarro to turn over presidential email records

Ashish Shelar’s new role as Maharashtra minister leaves BCCI treasurer post vacant

Who is Han Duck Soo, South Korea's new acting President after Yoon Suk Yeol's impeachment?

'Gandhi Bharat' Program Key to Congress' 2028 Victory: DK Shivakumar

How does a new presidential administration look from the American West?

The US deep state and its discontents

Peter Alphonse to oversee revamp of TNCC’s village committees

Why is so much of football’s power in the hands of ‘two random men’?

Trump floats plan to let billionaire polluters 'bribe their way' past regulations