Former Senator Marco Rubio has officially begun his tenure as US Secretary of State, just one day after the Senate unanimously approved his confirmation. He is the first of President Trump’s cabinet nominees to be sworn in.
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The United States Senate has voted to confirm former federal prosecutor Kash Patel as the next director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), continuing a streak of success for President Donald Trump’s government nominees. But Thursday’s confirmation came by slim margins. Only 51 senators, all Republican, voted in favour of Patel in the 100-seat…
Washington, DC – Donald Trump has been claiming credit for the ceasefire deal that halted the war in Gaza, but the United States president’s proposal to forcibly displace the Palestinians in the territory risks torpedoing the agreement, experts say. Trump repeatedly called this week for Gaza to be depopulated — a push that rights groups…
Eli Lilly plans to spend at least $27bn to build four new manufacturing plants in the United States, the drugmaker has said as it grapples with the threat of drug import duties from the Trump administration. The new plants will be built over the next five years and are expected to create more than 3,000…
A former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) employee has pleaded guilty to leaking secret documents about Israel’s plans to strike Iran last year during a period of escalating regional tensions linked to Israel’s war on Gaza and Lebanon. In a statement on Friday, the United States Department of Justice said Asif William Rahman, 34, pleaded guilty…
