President Donald Trump on Friday fired the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Air Force General C.Q. Brown, and pushed out five other admirals and generals in an unprecedented shake-up of US military leadership. Trump said in a post on Truth Social that he would nominate former Lieutenant General Dan "Razin" Caine to succeed Brown, breaking with tradition by pulling someone out of retirement for the first time to become the top military officer.

US trans actress Hunter Schafer, known for HBO hit show "Euphoria," has said her passport gender marker was changed to male, slamming the Trump administration which has demonized any recognition of gender diversity. Schafer blamed the policies of US President Donald Trump for the modification of her gender -- despite having identity documents marked female "coming up on a decade now" -- in a TikTok story published Thursday evening and rebroadcast as a video Friday.

U.S. President Donald Trump has said that if Tesla (TSLA.O), opens new tab were to build a factory in India to circumvent that country`s tariffs, it would be "unfair" to the U.S., in an interview with Fox News which aired on Tuesday. Trump called out India`s high duty on cars during Prime Minister Narendra Modi`s visit to the U.S. last week, but agreed to work towards an early trade deal and resolve their standoff over tariffs.

President Donald Trump sniped at Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky Tuesday and effectively blamed him for Moscow`s invasion -- even as he said he was more confident of a deal to end the war after US-Russia talks. Trump increased pressure on Zelensky to hold elections -- echoing one of Moscow`s key demands -- and chided the Ukrainian for complaining about being frozen out of talks in Saudi Arabia.