New York, March 6 (IANS) US President Donald Trump has fired Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, who was caught in controversies over her handling of immigration raids and her personal life. He named Senator Markwayne Mullin on Thursday to replace Noem, the first cabinet official to leave his administration in his second term. It was a mighty fall for one of the most loyal and firebrand supporters of Trump, whose excesses in implementing immigration policies were seen as beginning to hurt t…
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New York, Feb 25 (IANS) US President Donald Trump has called for a federal law against giving commercial driver’s licences to those living illegally in the US, citing an accident involving an illegal migrant from India in which a child was injured. “I’m calling on Congress to pass a law that we will call ‘The Dalilah Law’, barring any state from granting commercial driver’s licenses to illegal aliens”, he said during his State of the Union Address to Congress on Wednesday (India time)….
New York, Feb 24 (IANS) A “bomb cyclone” walloped the US Northeast dumping more than 90 centimeters of snow whipped by 135-kilomtre winds in some areas, cutting off power to nearly half-a-million and canceling about 11,000 flights. As the storm raged Sunday night into Monday along a 600-kilometre swath of coastal states from Pennsylvania to Massachusetts, governors or local authorities declared states of emergency banning all but essential vehicles on the roads, while emergency crews struggled…