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Indiana University, Bloomington, told Xiaofeng Wang on March 28 it was terminating his employment “effective immediately”. Wang’s wife Nianli Ma, who was also dismissed, says the university did not abide by due process. Photo: Handout

Nianli Ma, wife of cyber expert Xiaofeng Wang, speaks out over FBI raids

Ma says lack of due process by Indiana University is devastating after she and Wang were dismissed within days of each other.

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Palestinian activist expecting US citizenship interview is arrested by ICE

15 Apr 2025 - 1:28PM

Harvard hit with US$2 billion funding freeze after rejecting Trump’s demands

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Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg testifies at landmark US antitrust trial

Meta is accused by Federal Trade Commission of abusing its market power to acquire Instagram, WhatsApp before they could become competitors.

15 Apr 2025 - 8:50AM

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is seen at the luncheon on the inauguration day of US President Donald Trump’s second presidential term in Washington on January 20. Photo: Reuters

El Salvador’s Bukele says he will not return wrongly deported migrant to US

Trump administration has been ordered by a court to facilitate return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia after he was deported without due process.

15 Apr 2025 - 9:27AM

Arson attack on top US Democrat’s home sparks calls to end political violence

Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro’s home was targeted in an arson attack on Sunday; suspect Cody Balmer faces multiple charges, including attempted murder.

15 Apr 2025 - 7:06AM

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US deports another 10 gang members to El Salvador, Marco Rubio says

US secretary of state hailed alliance between Trump and El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele a day before Bukele’s White House visit.

14 Apr 2025 - 9:01AM

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio (right) and El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele in El Congo municipality, El Salvador in February. Photo: AFP/Getty Images/TNS

US State Department investigates ‘anti-Christian bias’ under Biden

Secretary of State Marco Rubio asked that reports also include actions taken due to opposition to vaccines or personal pronoun choice.

14 Apr 2025 - 1:38PM

Millionaires and billionaires

Meet Jeffrey Sprecher, Trump appointee Kelly Loeffler’s billionaire husband

With a net worth of US$1.3 billion, Sprecher has been able to support his Trump-loving wife’s political career; she’s now America’s head of small business administration.

14 Apr 2025 - 4:00AMvideocam

Sanders surprises Coachella, tells fans not to ignore ‘dangerously wrong’ Trump

‘You can turn away and you can ignore what goes on but if you do that, you do it at your own peril,’ the senator warned in his speech.

13 Apr 2025 - 3:43PM

US Senator Bernie Sanders at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, California, on April 12. Photo: Invision/AP

Opinion | Decoding Trump’s tariffs and the world’s multipolar future

The US president’s trade wars, while ostensibly about economic fairness, are part of a larger narrative of a hegemon’s diminishing dominance.

13 Apr 2025 - 10:18AM

US President Donald Trump holds a chart as he delivers remarks on tariffs at the White House on April 2. Photo: AFP

Harvard professors sue Trump over threat to US$9 billion in funding

The US president’s administration is reviewing grants and contracts as it cracks down on diversity programmes and Gaza protests on campuses.

13 Apr 2025 - 5:07AM

Israel-Gaza war

Judge rules US can deport Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil

The pro-Palestinian activist was the first person arrested under Trump’s crackdown on students taking part in campus protests over Gaza.

12 Apr 2025 - 3:59PM

Trump has his annual check-up, but will he finally share health details?

The oldest US president to be sworn into office has long kept basic facts about his health shrouded in secrecy.

12 Apr 2025 - 7:51AMvideocam

US President Donald Trump boards Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, on Friday. Photo: AFP

American in Thailand pleads guilty to threatening to kill US Senator Tillis

Eric Charles Welton, who was angry over too many unsolicited political emails, faces up to 10 years in federal prison.

11 Apr 2025 - 11:50AM

US Senator Thom Tillis. Photo: Getty Images/TNS

Supreme Court says Trump admin must help bring back man sent to El Salvador

Kilmar Abrego Garcia was deported and put in a notorious prison in his native country despite being in the US legally.

11 Apr 2025 - 7:42AM

Flip-flopper in chief? Trump’s biggest U-turns

The US president, who sent markets reeling with his on-again off-again tariffs, has changed his tune on issues from TikTok to abortion.

11 Apr 2025 - 7:03AMvideocam

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Trump health chief RFK Jnr says US will know cause of autism ‘epidemic’ soon

Kennedy has long promoted a debunked link between vaccines and autism despite scientific evidence to the contrary.

11 Apr 2025 - 3:05AM

US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jnr attends a press conference in Salt Lake City, Utah, on Monday. Photo: Reuters

Who are US Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s parents, Mario and Oriales Rubio?

Marco Rubio has been criticised for saying his parents fled Cuba when Fidel Castro came to power, even though they were granted permanent residency in the US several years before.

10 Apr 2025 - 7:00PM

Trump says TikTok deal is still ‘on the table’

‘But we’re going to have to wait and see what’s going to happen with China,’ the US president says.

10 Apr 2025 - 9:53AM

Celebrity Families

Meet Joe Rogan’s estranged half-sister Rosa, who’s publicly criticising him

Joe Rogan’s half-sister says the podcaster hasn’t attempted to contact her or her father, but admits his interview with Donald Trump before the US election was an ‘influential moment’.

10 Apr 2025 - 6:00AM

Podcaster Joe Rogan has an estranged half-sister named Rosa Rogan Lunelli – and she’s not happy about his portrayal of their father. Photos: Joe Rogan, Rosa Rogan Lunelli/Facebook

US-China trade war

Opinion | Why China can and should go all out against Trump in his trade war

China has all the cards and the confidence; but for the US, the likely outcome is the bursting of the US financial bubble and the dollar’s demise.

9 Apr 2025 - 6:30PMvideocam

Shoppers in Shanghai on February 28. The property bubble has been lanced, people are braced and households have twice as much savings as debt. There is very little economic downside left for China, and no scenario in which it cannot go on. Photo: Reuters

Millionaires and billionaires

Who is Bill Ackman’s wife, Neri Oxman – who was once linked to Brad Pitt?

Billionaire investor Bill Ackman is in the spotlight for his comments about Donald Trump’s trade tariffs – but his wife is no stranger to controversy either ... meet Neri Oxman.

11 Apr 2025 - 2:37PM

Opinion | Trump’s tariff wall was never about fairness or reciprocity

Blanket tariffs on all goods imports confirm he is committed to ‘liberating’ the US from the very system that made it prosperous.

9 Apr 2025 - 4:30PMvideocam

Musk calls Trump adviser Navarro ‘dumber than bricks’ over tariffs

The White House downplayed the dispute, saying ‘boys will be boys’ and the duo’s ‘public sparring’ would be allowed to continue.

9 Apr 2025 - 3:13AM

Elon Musk on Tuesday described Peter Navarro, a senior White House trade advisor, as “a moron”. Photo: Reuters

Fame and celebrity

Meet Donald Trump’s special assistant and Maga loyalist Sonny Joy Nelson

The former cheerleader worked for the Trump-Vance election campaign before being assigned to the media team alongside press secretary Karoline Leavitt following Trump’s victory.

8 Apr 2025 - 6:00PMvideocam

Sonny Joy Nelson currently serves as special assistant to President Donald Trump and White House media affairs director. Photo: @sonnyjoynelson/Instagram

Musk urged Trump to reverse tariffs as Tesla shares drop: report

Elon Musk’s tariff plea to Trump failed, reports say. As Tesla shares plummet, economists warn of recession risks from the new US import duties.

8 Apr 2025 - 5:23PMvideocam

Senator Mark Warner says new Trump TikTok extension may violate law

Trump on Friday said he extended by 75 days a deadline for ByteDance to sell US assets of TikTok to a non-Chinese buyer, or face a ban.

8 Apr 2025 - 8:49AM

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