Ruffling
U.S. ties with one of its closest allies, President Trump is sharply
criticizing an Obama-era agreement with Australia - a deal that also
reportedly prompted the American leader to tell Australia's prime
minister that his was the "worst ...
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The
White House moved up the president's announcement that he was
nominating Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court by two days, possibly to
distract from the firestorm of criticism over his chaotic rollout of his
refugee policy.
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| Business Insider | - 43 minutes ago |
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'NO FEDERAL FUNDS?': Trump threatens UC Berkeley after campus erupts in protests over Milo Yiannopoulos speech. Peter Jacobs.
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| Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | - 19 minutes ago |
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Groundhog
Club co-handler John Griffiths holds Punxsutawney Phil during the
annual celebration of Groundhog Day on Gobbler's Knob in Punxsutawney,
Pa.
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| Los Angeles Times | - 9 hours ago |
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The
Mexican government on Wednesday vehemently denied reports that
President Trump threatened to send American soldiers into Mexico during a
phone call with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto.
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| The Hill | - 12 hours ago |
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The
Trump administration is pushing to reshape a government program aimed
at combating extremist ideologies to focus solely to countering Islamist
extremists, Reuters reports.
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| Wall Street Journal | - 3 hours ago |
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A
U.S. military raid against an al Qaeda target in Yemen last weekend
likely killed civilians, possibly including children, the Pentagon said
in a statement Wednesday.
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| U.S. News & World Report | - 23 minutes ago |
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The
White House has issued a cryptic warning that the U.S. will act against
Iran unless it stops testing ballistic missiles and supporting Houthi
rebels in Yemen, but declined to say what retaliatory actions the U.S.
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| New York Times | - 1 hour ago |
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Defense
Secretary Jim Mattis at Osan Air Base in South Korea on Thursday. South
Korea is the first stop on his trip. He will also visit Japan before
returning to Washington.
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(CNN)
Rex Tillerson, who was sworn in as US Secretary of State Wednesday,
takes responsibility for US policy in one of the world's biggest
flashpoints: the South China Sea.
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A draft of an executive order
on "religious freedom" is circulating inside the Trump administration,
outlining a potential weakening of protections designed to shield LGBT
individuals from discrimination, according to a copy of the proposed
order ...
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| USA TODAY | - 14 hours ago |
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Remember
when Republicans were dead set against sweeping executive actions?
Remember when they called Barack Obama an imperial president, and worse,
for issuing a string of executive orders, presidential memoranda and national security directives ...
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| Huffington Post | - Feb 1, 2017 |
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Orders
by the courts become binding and enforceable as law by the courts. In
some circumstances, orders issued by the President of the United States
too carry the force of law.
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President Donald Trump signed an executive order
last week to suspend some immigration from seven predominantly Muslim
countries - Syria, Yemen, Sudan, Somalia, Iraq, Iran and Libya - for 90
days, halt the refugee program for 120 days and suspend ...
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| Washington Post | - 29 minutes ago |
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Inmates
at the largest state prison for men in Delaware took four corrections
department workers and fellow prisoners hostage Wednesday in a stand-off
with authorities that had yet to be resolved more than 20 hours later
on Thursday morning, forcing ...
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Washington
(CNN) Billionaire charter school advocate Eli Broad sent a letter to
Senate leaders on Wednesday calling for them to oppose President Donald
Trump's choice for education secretary, Betsy DeVos.
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Washington
(CNN) President Donald Trump met Wednesday with several
African-American leaders for a listening session to kick off Black
History Month.
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| Washington Post | - 10 hours ago |
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First
lady Melania Trump might be staying mostly out of sight - but she's
increasing her presence in Washington with a high-level staff hire and
is working to fill out her team.
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