This article was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. GUANTÁNAMO BAY, Cuba — When he took over this week as the judge in the military trial of the five defendants charged in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, Col. W. Shane Cohen inherited 23,039 pages of public and secret transcripts; a vault […]
WASHINGTON — President Trump bestowed the nation’s highest civilian honor on the conservative economist Arthur Laffer on Wednesday, praising him for policies that he said brought “greater opportunity for all Americans.” Mr. Laffer is the father of so-called supply-side economics, and is the namesake of a famed theory — the Laffer Curve — which posits […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Army Secretary Mark Esper, who becomes the acting defense secretary on Monday, will travel to Brussels next week for a meeting of NATO defense ministers, the Pentagon said on Wednesday. President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that Esper would replace acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan, who is stepping down after media […]
(Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s pick to be United Nations ambassador acknowledged on Wednesday that climate change is a threat and pledged to recuse herself from any U.N. talks on the issue involving coal because her husband is a coal billionaire. Speaking before the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee in Washington, Kelly Craft – […]
Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said Rome will accept the bloc’s fiscal rules but will battle to have them adapted so the member state can allow for more public investment and stronger growth. Mr Conte said ahead of tomorrow’s EU summit: “We are determined to avoid an EU infringement procedure and we are convinced about our […]
President Trump’s campaign announced Wednesday that he had raised $24.8 million over 24 hours as he kicked off his re-election bid, an enormous haul that punctuates the financial advantage he is expected to enjoy over his Democratic challengers in 2020. Mr. Trump’s one-day total was more than any Democratic presidential candidate raised in the entire […]
Jeremy Corbyn is set to shift Labour’s policy to support a second referendum, under pressure from pro-European colleagues, Sky sources have said. The shadow cabinet meets this afternoon for a special discussion of Brexit, in the wake of Labour’s drubbing at the European elections. Party sources told Sky News that Mr Corbyn is prepared to […]
Joseph R. Biden Jr. doesn’t drink alcohol, but on Tuesday afternoon he stood behind the bar at the Stonewall Inn in New York City, buying a round of beers. Against a backdrop of flags celebrating L.G.B.T. pride and equality, Mr. Biden pulled out a credit card to pay for about 10 beers for a crowd […]
Alberta’s United Conservative government is limiting debate on a contentious bill that would strip away some bargaining rights for 180,000 public-sector workers. Unionized workers took pay freezes in the first years of their contracts but with the right to a wage reopener in the final year with binding arbitration if needed. The bill seeks to […]
The poll showed 54 percent of Tories surveyed would be willing for the Conservative Party to be destroyed if the UK would leave the European Union. The survey found that 59 percent of Tories would prefer to ditch Northern Ireland instead of remaining in the EU. And around 63 percent of the people polled said […]