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Donald Trump on Tuesday said he is ready to meet his Russian counterpart Vladimir Puti anytime, but at the same time warned that he would likely impose sanctions on Russia if the latter does not come to the negotiations table on the issue of Ukraine. «It sounds likely,» Trump told reporters when asked if the US will impose additional sanctions on Russia if Putin doesn't come to the negotiation table.

Donald Trump 's administration is directing that all federal diversity, equity and inclusion staff be put on paid leave, and that agencies develop plans to lay them off, according to a memo Tuesday from the Office of Personnel Management.

President Donald Trump’s goodwill in the cryptocurrency industry has taken a hit after he and his wife launched meme coins — a move critics say looks like an unseemly cash grab that undermines an effort to legitimize digital assets

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Elite law firms in Washington are giddy about Donald Trump’s re-election. Since November many of them have been presenting an optimistic case about how they can help businesses navigate the complex regulatory and policy environment to come.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said Tuesday that it has created a cryptocurrency task force to develop a regulatory framework for digital assets.

Donald Trump on Tuesday said he likes both sides of the argument on H-1B foreign guest workers' visa, noting that he likes «very competent people» coming into the country and that he has used the programme. «I like both sides of the argument, but I also like very competent people coming into our country, even if that involves them training and helping other people that may not have the qualifications they do. But I don't want to stop — and I'm not just talking about engineers, I'm talking about people at all levels,» Trump told reporters at the White House during a joint news conference with Oracle CTO Larry Ellison, Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son, and Open AI CEO Sam Altman.

Stocks climbed as President Donald Trump struck a better-than-feared tone on global trade and speculation grew that his policies will further boost Corporate America. Bonds continued to unwind the recent surge in yields that roiled markets. The dollar wavered. Over 400 shares in the S&P 500 rose, with the gauge up almost 1% as Trump is expected to announce a new investment push for artificial intelligence led by Softbank Group Corp., OpenAI LLC, and Oracle Corp. A closely watched exchange-traded fund tracking companies with AI exposure hit a three-year high. Small caps climbed on bets they will benefit from a protectionist stance. Trump’s flurry of executive orders helped boost space shares, while weighing on electric-vehicle makers. An ETF focused on big Chinese firms gained as the US president so far refrained from announcing tariffs on the Asian nation.

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar met his US counterpart Marco Rubio and exchanged views on a wide range of regional and global issues in their first bilateral meeting hours after the Secretary of State assumed office.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Nifty 50, India’s benchmark index, closed lower at 23,024.65 after a volatile trading session. The index opened at 23,421.65 but remained in the red for most of the day.

Indian rupee weakened marginally on Tuesday to close at 86.577 per US dollar, versus previous close of 86.567/$1. The local currency peaked to 86.282/$1 during the day after US president Donald Trump refrained from imposing tariffs on his first day in office. The rupee, however, gave up its gains after Trump said he was thinking about imposing tariffs on Canada and Mexico.

U.S. President Donald Trump could hit Canada with tariffs as early as next week, raising the risks that Ottawa would impose retaliatory tariffs on the United States amid growing fears of a trade war.

Donald Trump arrived at the White House along with his wife Melania Trump, and was greeted by Joe Biden and Jill Biden. There was an exchange of words and pleasantries between them, but an astonishing claim has surfaced that suggests that Biden was asked to 'shut up' by the new US President Donald Trump. At the point when this interaction happened, Joe Biden was still the reigning President, and they were yet to arrive at the Presidential inauguration event for the oath-taking ceremony.

Bishop Mariann Budde delivered a poignant sermon urging US President Donald Trump to show some mercy at least towards LGBTQ+ communities and undocumented immigrants, reported Associated Press.

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order promising to eliminate what he incorrectly labels “the electric vehicle mandate” imposed under former President Joe Biden

Harris, the former vice president, boarded a plane bound for her home state to visit firefighters fighting wildfires raging across Southern California and assist in food distribution with nonprofit World Central Kitchen, just after Vice President JD Vance took his oath of office and Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th president of the United States on January 20.

Oracle plan a Texas-based joint venture called Stargate, and have committed $100 billion initially and then up to $500 billion into Stargate over the next four years, as per Reuters report.

executive orders was the first thing on Donald Trump's bucket list after being the US President, purging nearly 1,000 Biden appointees who are not aligned with the goal of 'Making America Great Again'. As soon as Trump became President, he started off with an official notice of dismissal to four top Biden appointees in a midnight social media post.