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Pete Hegseth
Trump names Fox News host Pete Hegseth as defense secretary pick
WASHINGTON — US President-elect Donald Trump has named Pete Hegseth, a Fox News host, author and military veteran, as his pick for defense secretary.Hegseth, 44, who served in Afghanistan and Iraq, will be responsible for the world's most powerful military in his first political role.Announcing his choice on Tuesday, Trump described him as "tough, smart and a true believer in America First".The news came on the same day Trump announced another political newcomer, billionaire Elon Musk, would take a government cost-cutting role.Trump's administration is taking shape after his win in last week's presidential election. Hegseth was one of a flurry of security appointments that also included Trump's pick of John Ratcliffe to head the Central Intelligence Agency...
November 13, 2024

Trump names Fox News host Pete Hegseth as defense secretary pick

Elon Musk embraces Donald Trump during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on October 5.
Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to lead new ‘Department of Government Efficiency’ in Trump administration
WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump announced Tuesday that Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will lead a new “Department of Government Efficiency” in his second administration.“Together, these two wonderful Americans will pave the way for my Administration to dismantle Government Bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure Federal Agencies,” Trump said in a statement.The announcement of Ramaswamy and particularly Musk, who leads companies with existing, lucrative government contracts, raises immediate questions about potential conflicts of interest. It is not immediately clear how the department – which Trump said would “provide advice and guidance from outside of Government” – would operate, and whether a Congress even fully...
November 13, 2024

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to lead new ‘Department of Government Efficiency’ in Trump administration

Travellers walk in front of the Toussaint Louverture International Airport in Port-au-Prince in May 2024
Two US planes struck by gunfire over Haiti’s capital
PORT-AU-PRINCE — Two jets from US-based airlines were struck by bullets on Monday while flying over Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince as Haitian authorities suspended all flights in and out of the capital amid escalating gang violence.A Spirit Airlines plane was hit by gunfire while attempting to land in Port-au-Prince, resulting in what the airline described as “minor injuries” to one crew member.Spirit said Monday that its Flight 951 from Fort Lauderdale in Florida to Port-au-Prince was diverted and landed in Santiago in the Dominican Republic, where “an inspection revealed evidence of damage to the aircraft consistent with gunfire.” The aircraft has been taken out of service, and Spirit services to Port-au-Prince and Cap-Haitien have been suspended, the airline said.Later...
November 12, 2024

Two US planes struck by gunfire over Haiti’s capital

Rep Michael Walz
Trump to name national security adviser while Rubio in running for top diplomat role
WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump is expected to name Rep Michael Waltz, a Florida Republican, to serve as national security adviser, two sources familiar with the matter told CBS News.A veteran of the war in Afghanistan and a long-time Trump supporter, Waltz was re-elected to Congress last week — though he will have to vacate his office to serve in the White House.In this role, Waltz would serve as a key White House adviser on national security and foreign policy matters. It is a prominent role that does not require confirmation.Senator Marco Rubio of Florida is in talks to be Trump's nominee for secretary of state, though the pick is not a done deal, two sources told CBS.Waltz and Rubio's offices did not respond to the BBC's request for comment.A decorated Green...
November 12, 2024

Trump to name national security adviser while Rubio in running for top diplomat role

Supporters of then-US President Donald Trump gather are seen covering the front steps of the Capitol building on 6 January
Jan 6 rioters expect Trump will keep pardon promise
WASHINGTON — Out of all of Donald Trump’s supporters, Derrick Evans has a particular reason to be happy with November’s election results – he hopes the president-elect will give him a pardon for participating in the 6 January riot at the US Capitol.“A pardon will be life-changing,” said Evans, who was a member of the West Virginia legislature when he and at least 2,000 others stormed the Capitol in 2021. It was part of an effort to overturn the results of the US election, inspired by the false belief that it was Trump, not President Joe Biden, who had won.He reached an agreement with prosecutors which saw him plead guilty to civil disorder and spent three months in federal prison in 2022. On the campaign trail, Trump repeatedly said he would pardon the rioters, whom he has...
November 12, 2024

Jan 6 rioters expect Trump will keep pardon promise

A Spirit Airlines flight (file image) was struck by gunfire as it arrived in Haiti's capital on Monday
Airlines suspend Haiti flights after plane hit by gunfire
PORT-AU-PRINCE — Several airlines have suspended flights to Haiti after a passenger plane from the US was hit by gunfire as it tried to land in Port-au-Prince.Spirit Airlines Flight 951 from Fort Lauderdale in Florida was diverted to the neighboring Dominican Republic, where it landed safely at Santiago Airport.A flight attendant suffered minor injuries but no passengers were hurt in the attack, the second in three weeks on aircraft flying over Haiti's capital.The incident comes as a new prime minister took office in the crisis-hit country, which has been plagued by armed gangs and escalating violence.Alix Didier Fils-Aimé said his priority was "restoring security", according to AFP news agency.Notwithstanding the country's "difficult circumstances", he...
November 12, 2024

Airlines suspend Haiti flights after plane hit by gunfire

Elise Stefanik and Tom Homan
Trump appoints Elise Stefanik UN ambassador and Tom Homan border tsar 
WASHINGTON — US President-elect Donald Trump has made two more key appointments ahead of his return to the White House in January.Tom Homan, 62, will serve as Trump's "border tsar", having previously served as the returning president's acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice).New York Congresswoman Elise Stefanik, 40, has also been made ambassador to the United Nations, according to statements given to the New York Post.Meanwhile, Trump's Republican Party are edging closer to full control of the US Congress. They already have a majority in the Senate and need to win just a handful of seats to take the House of Representatives.A party needs 218 seats to win a House majority. The Republicans have 215 compared to the rival Democrats' 210,...
November 11, 2024

Trump appoints Elise Stefanik UN ambassador and Tom Homan border tsar 

Former President Donald Trump emerges to speak at the Palm Beach County Convention Center in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Wednesday, November 6, 2024
‘Feeling of dread’ spreads across federal workforce as second Trump term looms
WASHINGTON — Much of the federal workforce is on edge and bracing itself for the likelihood its ranks will be purged when President-elect Donald Trump takes office.Trump, who has derided civil servants as agents of the “deep state,” promised on the campaign trail to reinstate a 2020 executive order known as Schedule F, giving him the power to commence mass firings of nonpartisan federal employees who might spoil Trump’s partisan plans.“The objective is to create space to put loyalists in what were, what are still, career civil service positions,” former Trump appointee Ronald Sanders – who resigned over Trump’s politicization of the federal workforce – told CNN. Sanders added it is “problematic” if schedule F is being used to reinforce and maintain political...
November 11, 2024

‘Feeling of dread’ spreads across federal workforce as second Trump term looms

Haiti's former prime minister Garry Conille
Haiti's prime minister ousted after six months
PORT-AU-PRINCE — Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille has been fired by the country's ruling council less than six months after he took office.An executive order, signed by eight of the council's nine members, named businessman and former Haiti Senate candidate Alix Didier Fils-Aime as Conille's replacement.Conille, a former United Nations official, was brought in to lead Haiti through an ongoing, gang-led security crisis and had been expected to help pave the way for the country's first presidential elections since 2016.He described his ousting as illegal, saying in a letter — seen by Reuters news agency — that it raised "serious concerns" about Haiti's future.Haiti currently has neither a president nor parliament and, according to its constitution,...
November 11, 2024

Haiti's prime minister ousted after six months

Donald Trump has named campaign chief Susie Wiles as his chief of staff, the most senior unelected position in the White House
Trump picks Susan Wiles as White House chief of staff
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump announced on Thursday that his campaign manager, Susie Wiles, will be named his White House chief of staff.“Susie Wiles just helped me achieve one of the greatest political victories in American history, and was an integral part of both my 2016 and 2020 successful campaigns,” the president-elect said in a statement.“Susie is tough, smart, innovative, and is universally admired and respected. Susie will continue to work tirelessly to Make America Great Again. It is a well deserved honor to have Susie as the first-ever female Chief of Staff in United States history. I have no doubt that she will make our country proud,” Trump added.CNN reported earlier Thursday that Wiles was considered the front-runner for the job but had some reservations about the role...
November 08, 2024

Trump picks Susan Wiles as White House chief of staff

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