Trump rallies supporters after explosive indictment

DONALD Trump addressed his supporters yesterday for the first time since his indictment on multiple federal charges propelled the 2024 presidential election race into uncharted and potentially destabilising territory. The 37 counts of the indictment – released on Friday and focused on his alleged mishandling of classified materials – set the former president up for […]

Sanusi’s ‘Trumpification’ is concerning

THE greatest challenge for liberal democracies in this current century is arguably the rise of populism, which seeks to drive a wedge between the idea of liberalism and democracy. Since the end of the Cold War when communism was seemingly “defeated”, liberal democracies were more or less being bandied about as the better system of […]

‘Unabomber,’ whose attacks terrorised US, dies in prison

TED Kaczynski, known as the “Unabomber” who terrorised Americans from 1978 to 1995 with his sporadic, anonymous bombing campaign, has died in prison, US authorities said. Kaczynski, 81, whose attacks killed three people and injured two dozen, died at the federal prison medical centre in Butner, North Carolina, said the Federal Bureau of Prisons.

PSD halts scholarships for dentistry, pharmacy programmes

ON top of medicine, the Public Service Department (PSD) has stopped providing scholarship to students who intend to pursue dentistry and pharmacy programmes. Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Sabah, Sarawak Affairs and Special Duties) Armizan Mohd Ali said the decision was made as there is a sufficient supply of personnel in these fields.