Mr Trump, the most divisive political figures in modern history, is named President as protesters around the world express concern about his attitude to women, climate change, minorities, Russia and nuclear weapons. Hundreds of thousands of people filled the streets of Washington DC to attend the inauguration ceremony, a number...
Police in New York have scuffled with anti-Donald Trump protesters demonstrating against the President-elect. Opponents, angered by Mr Trump's comments during the election campaign about women, illegal immigrants and Muslims — as well as his promise to repeal Obamacare and build a wall on the Mexican border —...
HONG KONG — With Donald Trump set to take office on Jan. 20, all eyes are on whether the new U.S. president will "walk his talk" by triggering a trade war with China that could result in a no-win situation, according to trade experts. During his election campaign, Trump pledged to label China as a currency...
With less than a week to go before Donald Trump takes office, an expert in American politics has come forward to state her belief that the 45th president of the United States will not see the end of his first term. In an interview with The Independent, University of Manchester professor Angelia Wilson claimed that due to the...
US President-elect Donald Trump has praised the UK's decision to leave the European Union and promised a trade deal between the US and UK "quickly" and "properly" when he comes to office. Trump said that he was set to meet with UK Prime Minister Theresa May "right after I get into the White...
New York // Donald Trump on Wednesday launched a blistering attack on American intelligence agencies which he accused of allowing the release of documents containing unverified allegations that Russian agents had compromising information about the president-elect. He compared their activities with those of Nazi Germany,...
The dress Ivanka Trump wore to her father’s press conference on Wednesday caught everyone’s attention. Donald Trump’s daughter was wearing a sleeveless, knee-length hunter green dress with pumps as he took questions from the media for the first time since becoming president-elect. During the press conference,...
Russia "did not succeed" in disrupting the American election according to Kellyanne Conway, one of President-elect Donald Trump's key advisers, in an interview on Meet the Press on Sunday (8 January). "They did not succeed to embarrassing this country on the world stage," Conway argued. She was...
Car giant Ford Motor Company said it will cancel plans to build a new $1.6bn (£1.3bn) plant in Mexico, deciding to instead invest $700m and add 700 jobs at an existing Michigan factory, following sustained criticism from US President-elect Donald Trump. Trump has strongly criticised major US firms for moving jobs outside...
Actor Charlie Sheen has sparked online controversy after tweeting his wishes for Donald Trump to be the next celebrity death of 2016. In a tweet posted on 29 December, after the news of Hollywood actress Debbie Reynolds' death at the age of 84, the former Two and a Half Men star wrote: "Dear God; Trump next,...
US President-elect Donald Trump has created yet more diplomatic shockwaves with a pair of tweets in which he urged the nation of Israel to "stay strong" until his inauguration on 20 January. The remarks came in the wake of the Obama administration's refusal to veto a UN Security Council resolution that condemned...
PALM BEACH, Fla. — President-elect Donald Trump declared Wednesday that the deadly truck attack on a Christmas market in Germany was “an attack on humanity and it’s got to be stopped.” He also suggested he might go forward with his campaign pledge to temporarily ban Muslim immigrants from coming to the...