ISTANBUL (AA) – President-elect Donald Trump has chosen South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem as his new secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, CNN reported on Tuesday, citing two sources. The appointment places Noem in charge of an agency central to Trump’s immigration and border security agenda, which includes plans for mass dep...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The Democratic Party lost a lot of votes in last week’s presidential election by focusing on such issues as gender ideology, global warming and abortion instead of the basic “kitchen table issues” of ordinary Americans, says a senior pollster. Brent Buchanan, the founder of Cygnal, a Washington, D.C.-based public opinion ...
WASHINGTON (AA) – President-elect Donald Trump is expected to name Florida Senator Marco Rubio as his secretary of state, according to a report published on Monday. Trump may still make a last-minute change, but he seems to have decided on Rubio, said The New York Times, citing three people familiar with his plans. Neither Rubio’s ...
President-elect Donald Trump has announced that he will appoint former congressman Lee Zeldin to run the Environmental Protection Agency. “He will ensure fair and swift deregulatory decisions that will be enacted in a way to unleash the power of American businesses, while at the same time maintaining the highest environmental standards, ...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday said he spoke with President-elect Donald Trump three times in the past few days to “further enhance” the alliance between the two countries. “In recent days, I have spoken three times with US President-elect Donald Trump. These were very good and impo...
ISTANBUL (AA) – President-elect Donald Trump told Russian President Vladimir Putin in a phone call not to escalate the situation in Ukraine, a report said Sunday. The call took place Thursday, The Washington Post reported, adding that Trump reminded Putin of the considerable US military presence in Europe. The call, if confirmed, would mark th...
ISTANBUL (AA) – President-elect Donald Trump announced late Sunday that the former acting director of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Tom Homan will serve as his administration’s “border czar.” “I am pleased to announce that the Former ICE Director, and stalwart on Border Control, Tom Homan, will be joining...
WASHINGTON (AA) – President Joe Biden will meet President-elect Donald Trump at the White House on Wednesday, a spokesperson said. “At President Biden’s invitation, President Biden and President-elect Trump will meet in the Oval Office on Wednesday at 11:00 am,” White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement. ...
WASHINGTON (AA) – President-elect Donald Trump won the state of Arizona in the presidential election on Saturday against Democratic rival Kamala Harris, flipping a final swing state that Democrats had claimed in 2020, according to The Associated Press. With Arizona’s 11 electoral votes, Trump, a Republican, has secured 312 electoral vote...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran has categorically dismissed allegations of involvement in a plot to assassinate former and current US officials, including President-elect Donald Trump, calling the claims “completely unfounded.” In a statement, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei rejected accusations made by the US D...
