MARCH 31, 2025
Aurore Berge speaking in France. - Sipa via AP Images
A French minister has spoken out after Donald Trump's administration ordered some French companies with U.S. government contracts to comply with orders banning diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs.
French Minister for Gender Equality Aurore Bergé indicated in an interview that companies will refuse to follow Trump's request.
Newsweek contacted the U.S....
MARCH 31, 2025
Elon Musk attends a rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin, on 30 March 2025. - Photograph: Vincent Alban/Reuters
Members of Elon Musk’s so-called “department of government efficiency” (Doge) reportedly gained access to a payroll system over the weekend that processes salaries for about 276,000 federal employees across various government agencies, despite warnings from senior staff about the potential risks.
According to...
MARCH 30, 2025
Almost no part of government is immune from President Donald Trump’s thirst for power and control. Last week he signed executive orders aimed at the Smithsonian Institution, the District of Columbia and the administration of elections. No president has sought more change in more institutions more rapidly, through executive orders than Trump.
The order on elections is more than 2,500 words and at times...
MARCH 30, 2025
Mail delivery. Real estate. Foreign aid grants. The Trump administration is moving to privatize a sweeping number of government functions and assets — a long-standing Republican goal that’s being catalyzed by billionaire Elon Musk.
The slash-and-burn approach of Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service is paving the way for a new shift to the private sector, reducing the size and...
MARCH 30, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks, in the Roosevelt Room at the White House, in Washington, D.C., U.S., March 24, 2025. REUTERS/Carlos Barria
President Donald Trump on Sunday didn't rule out running for a third term, even though its prohibited by the United States' Constitution, adding that he was "not joking."
"A lot of people want me to do it," Trump said...
MARCH 30, 2025
Trump during NBC News interview.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump said that he was “very angry” and “pissed off” when Russian President Vladimir Putin criticized the credibility of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s leadership, adding that the comments were “not going in the right location.”
Agence France-Presse reported that Putin on Friday called for a transitional government to be put in place...
MARCH 29, 2025
The grant, contract and budget cuts in federal agencies, along with the crippling reductions of tens of thousands of government jobs, will “in all probability” end up increasing (by a lot), rather than decreasing the nation’s deficit, which has been the stated intent, notes a new report.
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) hatchet man Elon Musk initially boasted that he would...
MARCH 29, 2025
Ramadan celebrations in Pakistan. - Muhammad Sajjad
CAIRO — Muslims around the world are bidding farewell to the Islamic holy month of Ramadan and will soon start celebrating the holiday of Eid al-Fitr. Eid is typically greeted with joy and excitement and is marked with congregational prayers and festivities that usually include family visits, gatherings, outings and new clothes.
For some Muslims,...
MARCH 29, 2025
Trump Administration FBI Director appointee Kash Patel.
In late February, President Donald Trump made an unusual announcement: FBI Director Kash Patel would also serve as interim head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
That put Patel in charge of two Justice Department subagencies with two distinct missions — and no public mandate on how he would...
MARCH 28, 2025
Chinese leader Xi Jinping at the closing of the National People’s Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on March 11.
BEIJING, CHINA — Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday met with global executives and made a case for investing in the country, as Beijing focuses on reaching out to businesses amid escalating trade tensions with the...
