Donald Trump increased his incendiary racist comments against four congresswomen accusing one of marrying her British “brother”. The President fuelled further division among the American people at his latest re-election rally where he described the quartet – known as ‘the squad’ as a “force of evil”. The continued attack saw leading British politicians join anti-racist […]
President Donald Trump continued his tirade against “The Squad” at a Wednesday rally in Greenville, N.C., thrusting the four freshmen Democratic congresswomen he’s been lobbing insults at to the forefront of the 2020 race — and reiterating his divisive statement: “If they don’t love [America], tell them to leave it.” Many observers took particular issue with the remarks […]
Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard forces have seized a foreign oil tanker accused of smuggling oil with a crew of 12, Iran’s state TV reported Thursday, just days after an oil tanker based in the United Arab Emirates disappeared off trackers in Iranian territorial waters. The Panamanian-flagged oil tanker MT Riah stopped transmitting its location overnight on […]
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Several hundred people took to the streets of New York on Wednesday to protest the U.S. Department of Justice’s decision not to bring charges against a New York City policeman in the chokehold death of an unarmed black man in 2014. The demonstrators also vented their anger at New York Mayor […]
It was a divisive election, plagued by alleged anti-democratic tactics, that handed the winning side just 52% of the vote. But we're not talking about Brexit . Oh no. This is the election for the new head of the European Commission in Brussels. Last night Ursula von der Leyen won 383 of 733 votes cast […]
WASHINGTON — Justice John Paul Stevens, who retired from the Supreme Court in 2010 and died on Tuesday at 99, was the last of a breed. He was chosen for his ability as a lawyer and not, as is common today, for how he was likely to vote in ideologically charged cases. In picking him […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday his administration would investigate whether Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google supports the Chinese government, following accusations that a company official refuted hours later at a Senate hearing. The president repeated accusations made previously by Peter Thiel, a co-founder of PayPal and venture capitalist, that Google may […]
WASHINGTON — Shelley Jackson was 7 years old the first time she heard it. In the early 1970s, Ms. Jackson was among a group of 40 black children who were bused from one side of Los Angeles to integrate a majority-white school across town. One day, a playground squabble ended in a white classmate telling […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Three U.S. senators who have been frequent critics of U.S. tech giants wrote a letter to the Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday to criticize its reported settlement with Facebook Inc. U.S. Senators Edward Markey, Richard Blumenthal, who are Democrats, and Josh Hawley, a Republican, told the agency that a $5 billion settlement, […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives introduced bills on Tuesday to keep tight restrictions on Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, amid concern about President Donald Trump’s easing of restrictions on the Chinese firm. The legislation would among other things bar the removal of the massive telecommunications equipment firm from a […]