Secretary of State Marco Rubio ordered US embassies worldwide to stop scheduling interviews for student visas as the Trump administration weighs stricter vetting of applicants’ social-media profiles.
The directive, laid out in a cable sent to diplomats worldwide on Tuesday, marks the latest effort by the administration to restrict foreign students’ entry to American schools over claims that they might threaten US national security or promote antisemitism.
US President Donald Trump warned Apple CEO Tim Cook that tariffs of upto 25% might be levied on Iphones manufactured outside the U.S, in an aim to curb Apple’s manufacturing unit’s expansion into India. Trump’s May 2025 Truth Social post stated, “I have long ago informed Tim Cook of Apple that I expect their iPhone’s that will be sold in the United States of America will be manufactured and built in the United States, not India, or anyplace else.”
US Judge Allison D. Burroughs issued a temporary restraining order blocking the Trump administration’s attempt to revoke Harvard University’s ability to enroll international students, a move described by the university as unconstitutional retaliation. The ruling was issued hours after Harvard filed a lawsuit in Boston federal court.
Pakistan did not resort to “nuclear signalling” in the wake of Operation Sindoor and the United States was “neither involved nor informed” about cessation of firing between the two countries, the government told the Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs headed by senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Monday (May 19, 2025).
After controversial comments of relocating Palestinian residents of the Gaza Strip, US President Donald Trump has expressed wishes to physically acquire Gaza.
Australians have defied the global trend of incumbent fatigue. It has rejected conservative coalition led by Peter Dutton widely perceived as aligning himself with the rhetoric, posture and tactics of “Trumpian” politics.
