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Iran president denies plot to kill Trump and calls for him to pursue peace

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian. PHOTO/@drpezeshkian/X

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has denied suggestions that his country plotted to kill United States President-elect Donald Trump after two previous attempts on his life in 2024. In an interview with US media outlet NBC News aired on Tuesday, Pezeshkian also insisted that Iran’s nuclear programme is peaceful and warned Trump against risking “war”. The […]

Judge denies Trump bid to delay sentencing in hush money case

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A New York judge will not delay this Friday’s sentencing of President-elect Donald Trump in his felony hush-money case. Justice Juan Merchan said the sentencing would proceed as Trump’s arguments against it “are for the most part, a repetition of the arguments he has raised numerous times in the past”. In court filings, Trump’s attorneys […]

Trump to be sentenced over hush money case but judge signals no jail time

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A judge has ordered that Donald Trump will be sentenced on 10 January in his hush-money case in New York – less than two weeks before he is set to be sworn in as president. New York Justice Juan Merchan signalled he would not sentence Trump to jail time, probation or a fine, but instead […]

Trump vows to end birthright citizenship

President-elect Donald Trump has said he will look at pardons for those involved in the 2021 US Capitol riot on his first day back in office next month. “These people are living in hell,” he told NBC’s Meet the Press in his first broadcast network interview since winning November’s election. The Republican also vowed to […]

Trump picks former aide as FBI director

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US President-elect Donald Trump has picked a former aide, Kash Patel, to lead the Federal Bureau of Investigation, an agency Patel has often criticised. A former US defence department chief of staff in the first Trump administration, Patel has been a steadfast supporter of the incoming Republican president. For Patel to take the job, the […]

Mark Zuckerberg dines with Donald Trump months after he threatened him with jail

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Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg has visited Donald Trump at his resort in Mar-a-Lago – a matter of months after the president-elect threatened him with jail. In August, Trump wrote in a book that the tech billionaire would “spend the rest of his life in prison” if he attempted to interfere in the 2024 US election. […]

Trump rewards Elon Musk with leading role in government efficiency

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U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday named Elon Musk and former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy to lead a newly created Department of Government Efficiency, rewarding two of Trump’s well-known supporters from the private sector. Musk and Ramaswamy “will pave the way for my Administration to dismantle Government Bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, […]