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Donald Trump (File photo) The TOI correspondent from Washington: US President Donald Trump’s blunt declaration that America “doesn’t have certain talents” detonated an epic meltdown across MAGA circles on Wednesday, with his Fox News interview that touched on the subject of H1-B visas and foreign students exposing a widening chasm between the MAGA boss and…
US President Donald Trump’s latest comments on H-1B visas stirred a row within his MAGA base, after he appeared to soften his tough stance on immigration by suggesting the US should welcome more foreign workers to the land of bald eagles.In a Fox News interview with Laura Ingraham on Tuesday, Trump said that the US…
Donald Trump with Kash Patel (AP image) WASHINGTON: Desis are in a doom spiral in the MAGA world. The populist, nationalist fervor that has defined the MAGA movement is now fueling a fierce internal conflict, with pro-Trump Indian-American conservatives like Dinesh D’Souza and Kash Patel finding themselves on the receiving end of the xenophobic attacks…
Zohran Mamdani (AP image) WASHINGTON: From the MAGA perspective, millionaires are fleeing Manhattan, cops are quitting NYPD en masse, and the Big Apple is rotting faster than strawberries on a summer day because New York City has fallen…to Communists, Islamists and immigrants. Memes show the Statue of Liberty under a burka or niqab, hammer and…
The TOI correspondent from Washington: India and Pakistan may have issues at their border, but progeny of the subcontinent have no problem leaving the baggage behind. In a striking choice, New York City’s mayor-elect, Uganda-born Indian-American Zohran Kwame Mamdani picked UK-born Pakistani-American Lina Maliha Khan to co-chair an all-women transition team as he prepares to…
It finally happened! New York just elected a Muslim, African-born, democratic socialist mayor. Zohran Mamdani, the 34-year-old son of immigrants, toppled political heavyweights Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa to become the city’s youngest mayor in more than a century. To millions of progressives, it’s a historic breakthrough. To MAGA-world? It’s basically a full-blown red alert.Because…
A young MAGA supporter pulled no punches when he asked vice-president JD Vance a pointed question about the possibility of tyranny following the deployment of the National Guard under US President Donald Trump. The exchange took place at the Turning Point USA event at the University of Mississippi, in Oxford, Mississippi. The teenager was perched…
Harmeet Dhillon (Image/X) and Donald Trump (AP image) A Trump acolyte of Sikh faith is getting roasted by her MAGA bros after standing up for immigrant truckers who are the receiving end of nativist fury in America. Harmeet Dhillon, a California Attorney who heads the civil rights division in the Trump administration’s Department of Justice,…
File photo: Zohran Mamdani (Picture credit: AP) TOI correspondent from Washington: Two prominent MAGA Republican lawmakers have formally demanded the US Department of Justice (DOJ) investigate putative New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, whose mother is the Indian filmmaker Mira Nair, with the explicit goal of revoking his American citizenship and triggering deportation proceedings. Florida…
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has defended the decision to feature Bad Bunny at the Super Bowl LVIII halftime show, highlighting the artist’s global appeal and the league’s commitment to diversity. Despite conservative backlash and threats of a counter-programming event, the NFL remains firm, aiming to celebrate Latin music and culture on a massive stage. The…
