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During a media interaction on 29th May, President Trump termed international students as “troublemakers” and proposed a 15 per cent cap on enrolling foreign students at the Harvard University and other higher education institutions in the United States.

The Modi govt has been taking proactive measures, including trader negotiations, tariff relaxations, diversification and sectoral analysis to mitigate the negative impact of the US reciprocal tariffs.

Taking to X, JD Vance informed about his Greenland visit plans and said in a video message, “I decided that I didn’t want her to have all that fun by herself, so I’m going to join her… I’m going to visit some of our guardians in the Space Force on the northwest coast of Greenland, and also just check out what’s going on with the security there of Greenland.”

A divided SC of the US on Wednesday rejected the Trump administration's request to keep billions of dollars in foreign aid approved by Congress frozen, CNN reported.

As the details of the Biden administration funding newly-created climate groups emerged, the FBI and the Justice Department under the Trump administration have launched an investigation and frozen the linked bank accounts wherein billions of dollars of EPA-allocated funds are kept.

In a rare but pivotal high-level meeting since the Russia-Ukraine war started in 2022, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio met the Russian Foreign Minister in Saudi Arabia’s Riyadh. It is interesting to note that even though Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was also in Saudi Arabia, he was not a part of this meeting.

US President Donald Trump restores the 25 per cent tariff on steel and raises the tariff on aluminium to 25 per cent

Marko Elez, a computer science major from Rutgers University, worked for Musk at SpaceX, including on Starlink satellites and X, and was now working with DOGE.

The Chinese e-commerce companies were exploiting this provision to ship massive quantities of low-value items directly to customers in the US, bypassing the tariffs which would otherwise be applicable.

The six tech prodigies at the DOGE team who have become the topic of discussion on social media are Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran. Of these, some have working emails from the General Services Administration (GSA) and OPM even though they do not have any prior government experience.