US politics
US House panel advances bill to give Congress authority over AI chip exports
[NEW YORK] The US House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday overwhelmingly advanced a bill that would give Congress power over artificial intelligence chip exports, despite pushb...
Democratic senators demand records on Powell probe
US DEMOCRATIC senators Elizabeth Warren and Dick Durbin on Tuesday called for President Donald Trump’s administration to turn over records related to the Justice Department’s criminal probe of Federal...
The ‘tech left’ is different this time
Many Silicon Valley leaders have embraced Trump’s second term. Will political dissent among US technology workers rise again?
US posts record US$145 billion December deficit as outlays outpace receipts
The deficit for the first three months of fiscal 2026, which started on Oct 1, 2025, totalled US$602 billion, down US$109 billion
Trump ‘always’ respects election results, but in the US, he says they’re ‘rigged’
The US president consistently seeks to undermine faith in the voting process
US federal workforce drops to lowest level in at least a decade
[WASHINGTON] The US federal workforce fell to the lowest level in at least a decade, according to government data published on Thursday, the result of President Donald Trump’s campaign to shrink the g...
Trump signs proclamation withdrawing US from 66 international organisations, White House says
That includes UN entities, as well as non-UN organisations ‘that operate contrary to US national interests, security, economic prosperity or sovereignty’
Zohran Mamdani is sworn in as mayor of New York City
He is the city’s first Muslim and first South Asian leader
US bars approvals of new models of DJI, all other foreign drones
The move is a significant escalation in Washington’s battles to crack down on Chinese drones in recent years
US freezes five big offshore wind projects, shares dive
THE Trump administration suspended leases on Monday for five large offshore wind projects that are under construction off the US East Coast over what it called national security concerns, sending shar...
