Senators Reach Agreement on Puerto Rico Aid
Senators from both sides of the aisle indicated Monday that they have come to an agreement on aid for the hurricane hit island of Puerto Rico, a development which signals that they are moving towards […]
Senators from both sides of the aisle indicated Monday that they have come to an agreement on aid for the hurricane hit island of Puerto Rico, a development which signals that they are moving towards […]
Officials said Monday they would grant a handful of temporary exceptions to an export blacklist against Huawei, providing some suppliers and customers of China’s telecom giant a 90-day reprieve from tough trade penalties, the Wall […]
Accounting firm Mazars has been ordered by a federal district judge to release the President’s accounting records from the time before he took office to the House Oversight Committee. Judge Amit Mehta rejected President Donald […]
Iranian authorities said Monday that within weeks they could exceed an internationally agreed cap on their stockpile of low-enriched uranium, the Wall Street Journal informs. Tehran threatened earlier this month to step up its nuclear program, […]
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin rejected Friday House Democrats’ subpoenas requesting President Donald Trump’s tax returns, arguing in a letter that the request “lacks a legitimate legislative purpose.” Mnuchin also maintained he did not have the […]
Special Counsel Robert Mueller will not be making an appearance before Congress because he has “nothing to tell” and he doesn’t want Democrats to be “mad at him,” radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh has […]
Only two days after the governor of Alabama signed the most restrictive abortion ban in the country, Missouri has followed in its steps, approving a bill to ban abortions after 8 weeks and paving the […]
President Donald Trump said Thursday that he would return steel tariffs on Turkey to their August 2018 levels, announcing a reduction from 50 percent to 25 percent. He confirmed the tariff cut in a White […]
Growing U.S. pressure on Iran has weakened pragmatic leader Hassan Rouhani and made his hardline rivals more assertive at home and abroad, recent developments show, Reuters writes. When Rouhani succeeded firebrand leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 2013, […]
President Donald Trump will outline on Thursday a plan to harden border security and overhaul the legal immigration system to favor applicants who speak English, are well-educated and have job offers, senior administration officials said, […]
The majority of solar cells being produced at Tesla’s factory in upstate New York are being sold overseas instead of being used in the company’s trademark “Solar Roof” as originally intended, according to documents reviewed […]
Abortion rights are at risk at the Supreme Court, but the short-term threat may not come from extreme measures like the one passed by Alabama lawmakers, the New York Times writes. The court led by […]
President Donald Trump will meet with his South Korean counterpart next month when he is scheduled to travel to the country as part of his trip to Asia before attending the G20 economic summit in […]
President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order this week barring U.S. companies from using telecommunications equipment made by firms posing a national security risk, paving the way for a ban on doing […]
Washington ordered the departure of non-emergency government employees from Iraq on Wednesday, after repeated U.S. expressions of concern about threats from Iranian-backed forces, Reuters informs. The State Department has ordered the pullout of the employees […]
The U.S. drew up a list of associates of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban who could be targeted with sanctions, the Wall Street Journal reported, in what would amount to a fallback option if engagement […]
Facebook said it would stop people who have recently posted or shared terrorist propaganda from broadcasting live video on its service, the company’s most concrete response so far to pressure to dial back the feature […]
As tensions mount between Iran and the United States, on Tuesday Tehran issued a warning to Washington to avoid provoking a conflict, which they said could devastate the region. Among the officials issuing the warning […]
Two U.S. Senators, Republican Ted Cruz and Democrat Jeanne Shaheen, have announced plans to introduce a bipartisan bill to sanction companies associated with Russia’s Nord Stream 2 pipeline, Reuters reports. The controversial gas pipeline project […]
After President Trump’s attorney Rudy Giuliani threatened that he is going to travel to Ukraine to request from Ukrainian authorities to investigate Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden, the former Vice President now attacked […]
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Russia on Tuesday that Washington would brook no interference in the 2020 U.S. presidential election and wanted Moscow to take unspecified action to show there would be no repeat […]
North Korea on Tuesday demanded the release of a ship impounded by the United States for evading international sanctions, calling the seizure a “flagrant act of robbery” that violated the spirit of the agreement reached […]
In the wake of the Pentagon reprogramming $1.5 billion in fiscal 2019 funds to support President Donald Trump’s border wall with Mexico, only the U.S. Air Force appears to be losing money appropriated for equipment […]
U.S. Attorney for Connecticut John Durham has been appointed by Attorney General William Barr to examine whether the origins of the special counsel’s Russia probe were “lawful and appropriate,” according to a source with knowledge […]
The Yemeni government issued a letter to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), requesting its assistance for the release of journalists currently detained, tortured, and sentenced to death by the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen. In […]
House Republican leaders urged House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., to “take action” against Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., Sunday after Tlaib made a remark about the holocaust saying that thinking about it gave her “kind of […]
The European Union fully supports the international nuclear accord with Iran and wants rival powers to avoid any further escalation over the issue, EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said on Monday, Reuters informs. “We […]
President Donald Trump’s top economic advisor, Larry Kudlow, told Fox News on Sunday that they expected China to retaliate against the U.S.’ latest move to increase tariffs on some Chinese products from 10 to 25 […]
Following the announcement that President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani had canceled his planned trip to Ukraine, where he was to meet with the country’s president-elect to discuss investigations into Joe Biden’s son and […]
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin issued a statement on Friday in which he said that a U.S. delegation concluded trade talks with high Chinese officials, but did not announce a deal resolving the two countries’ long-running […]
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