Year: 2017

Hurricane Maria has knocked out power across the island of Puerto Rico, home to 3.5m people, The BBC said, citing officials. Flash flood warnings cover the entire island, which continues to be lashed by heavy […]

Trump Administration Plans Law to Deport Unaccompanied Immigrant Teens

The Trump administration is drafting a new policy to quickly deport more than 150,000 child migrants from Central America who arrived alone in the U.S. illegally, creating a new class of undocumented migrants, Newsweek reports. The Department of […]

Trump Plans to Slap New Sanctions against North Korea over Missile Program

President Donald Trump promised to slap new sanctions on North Korea as he prepared to meet Thursday with leaders of Japan and South Korea to discuss the growing crisis over Pyongyang’s weapons program, Bloomberg reports. “We will […]

Clinic Offers Free Abortions to Women Affected by Harvey

A women’s reproductive health clinic in Texas is offering free abortions for those affected by Hurricane Harvey, and at least 74 women have signed up so far, The Dallas Morning News reported. Austin-based Whole Woman’s Health has raised […]

Report: Tillerson, Haley at Odds on Iranian Nuclear Deal

Rex Tillerson and Nikki Haley are squaring off over the Iranian nuclear deal, with the secretary of state pushing President Donald Trump to remain in the accord while the U.N. ambassador fights for the president’s […]

U.S. Securities Regulator Hack Rattles Investors, Stirs Doubts

Wall Street’s top regulator faced questions on Thursday about its defenses against cybercriminals after admitting hackers breached its electronic database of corporate announcements and may have used it for insider trading, Reuters reports. The incursion […]

Manafort Offered to Brief Wealthy Russian during Campaign

In the middle of Donald Trump’s presidential run, then-campaign chairman Paul Manafort said he was willing to provide “private briefings” about the campaign to a Russian billionaire the U.S. government considers close to Russian President Vladimir […]

Insurers Scrambling to Keep up with ObamaCare Repeal

Insurance companies are scrambling to figure out a way to move forward, аfter Senate GOP decided to pull the plug on bipartisan negotiations and repeal ObamaCare. Senate may vote to repeal ObamaCare next week, The […]

Poll Shows Trump’s Approval Rating Spikes after Democrat Deal

President Donald Trump’s poll numbers jumped in September after the president made an agreement with Democrats to raise the debt-limit and fund the government through mid-December, The Hill reports. A poll released Thursday by the […]

Axios Reporter Says Spicer Threatens Legal Action over Questions

Former press secretary of the White House Sean Spicer made a threat to take legal action against a journalist who e-mailed and texted him questions, the reporter said Thursday. Axios informs that the former press […]

Haley to Join Tillerson at Iran Nuclear Deal Meeting at UN

Nikki Haley, the U.S. Ambassador to the UN, will join a meeting of foreign ministers responsible for the Iran nuclear deal that President Donald Trump has called an “embarrassment to the United States” and “the […]

Trump Blames Clintons for Nuclear North Korea

President Donald Trump on Wednesday accused former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former President Bill Clinton of failing to disarm North Korea, Politico reports. “After allowing North Korea to research and build Nukes while […]

California to File Lawsuit to Block Trump’s Border Wall

The State of California is planning a lawsuit in order to block President Donald Trump’s proposal to construct a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, Politico reports. “The lawsuit alleges that Trump’s administration violates federal law […]

EPA Employees Leak Memo on Agency’s Anti-Leaking Training Courses

Employees in the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) leaked a memo Tuesday emphasizing the importance of protecting sensitive information and describing a one-hour training course for agency workers on the necessity to prevent leaks, Newsmax reported, […]

Manafort Urges Justice Department to Release Any Wiretaps of Him

The former campaign chairman for the President Donald Trump, Paul Manafort, urged the Justice Department’s inspector general to start an investigation into leaks after the CNN reported that the FBI has initiated separate wiretap probes […]

President Trump Returns U.S. to Realpolitik in World Affairs

In his debut speech to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, President Donald Trump described to the world leaders his view and stance to world affairs by saying: “We are guided by outcomes, not ideology,” The […]

GOP Likely to Succeed to Repeal ObamaCare

Republican leaders in Congress along with the Trump administration are making last efforts to repeal and replace ObamaCare, The Hill reports. Earlier in September, the GOP efforts were nearly done for, as Republicans veered for […]

Trump Will Face Bannon and Breitbart in Alabama

U.S. President Donald Trump will face with his former White House chief strategist, Stephen Bannon in Alabama, The Hill Reports. Bannon and other Trump loyalists are furiously pushing for Roy Moore, the conservative that will oppose […]

UN Chief Condemns North Korea Threat, Prods U.S. on Climate Deal

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has condemned North Korea’s recent nuclear test as a “serious threat” to the world peace and urged all countries to increase efforts to enforce Security Council sanctions imposed on Kim Jong […]

Hurricane Maria Regains Category 5 Status

Hurricane Maria has once again become a Category 5 storm, the National Hurricane Center announced early on Tuesday, The Hill reports. The storm was first upgraded to a Category 5 on Monday evening, but then it was […]

Senate Republicans Consider Trillion-Dollar-Plus Tax Cut for Budget

Senate Republicans are thinking of drafting a budget that would allow up to $1.5 trillion in tax cuts over the next decade, The Wall Street Journal reports based on people familiar with the discussions. If […]

President Trump to Push Nationalist Policy at UN

President Donald Trump’s debut speech to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday will portray a foreign policy full of nationalism and sovereignty and secured by “America First” principles, according to a senior White House official, The […]

Trump’s Lawyer to Appear before Senate Investigators

President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer and confidant, Michael Cohen, will appear before Senate investigators Tuesday, as part of the ongoing investigation of the Russian meddling in the presidential election in 2016, where he is facing […]

Hillary Clinton Won’t Rule Out Questioning Trump’s Legitimacy, Pending Russia Probe

Hillary Clinton stated that she won’t dismiss questioning the legitimacy of President Donald Trump depending on what the official inquiries reveal about Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential campaign, Chicago Tribune reports. However, she said she cannot think […]

Non-partisan Group to Inform Americans on Russia Security Threat

A new non-partisan group was created to aim to inform Americans about the security threat that Russia is posing with the ongoing meddling in U.S. affairs. The Committee to Investigate Russia intends to “help Americans recognize […]

Trump Administration Rejects Study Showing Positive Impact of Refugees

Trump administration officials, that were pressured by the White House to draft a report for reducing the number of refugees allowed into the United States next year, have rejected a Department of Health and Human […]

Former Trump Campaign Chair Paul Manafort Wiretapped by U.S. Investigators, Report Says

Former Donald Trump head of campaign Paul Manafort was wiretapped by the U.S. government investigators before and after the 2016 presidential election, Fox News informs based on a report by CNN. The wiretapping was authorized […]

September 18, 2017 Focus Washington

Tillerson: U.S. May Close Havana Embassy

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Sunday that the U.S. was considering closing its embassy in Havana, Cuba, CNN reported. “We have it under evaluation,” Tillerson said on CBS’s Face the Nation. A group of […]

September 18, 2017 Focus Washington

Trump Takes Agenda of Change to United Nations

U.S. President Donald Trump’s debut at the United Nations General Assembly where world leaders gather annually was set to begin with a U.S.-hosted event on overhauls at the world body, The Wall Street Journal reports. Trump, U.N. […]

September 18, 2017 Focus Washington

Trump Lawyers Clash over Cooperating with Mueller’s Probe

The legal team of the U.S. President Trump Donald Trump is clashing over how much to cooperate with the special counsel who investigates Russian meddling in 2016 election, The New York Times reports. A NY […]