U.S. President Donald Trump’s budget director and chief of staff on Sunday said the partial U.S. government shutdown could continue to Jan. 3, when the new Congress convenes and Democrats take over the House of Representatives. “It’s very possible this shutdown will go beyond (December) the 28th and into the new Congress,” Mick Mulvaney said […]
US president had feuded with the Bush family, and the late president had let it be known he did not vote for Trump. President Donald Trump paid his last respects on Monday to the late George HW Bush, setting aside his animosity to the former president’s clan, whose family members he had derided in the […]
The stranger-than-sitcom American presidency opened 2018 with a big tease about mutual nuclear destruction from two leaders who then found “love” not war. It seems U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un were just playing hard to get. The presidency ends the year saturated in tumult, with the government in partial shutdown […]
With a partial government shutdown looming, President Trump late Friday called on Senate Democrats to approve funds for border security in a video recording posted to Twitter, in which he paired sweeping references to crime with incendiary footage of people moving in large crowds. “It’s very dangerous out there,” Mr. Trump said, as the screen […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Saturday that President Donald Trump told him he had “never suggested firing” the chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve. Mnuchin said in a tweet that Trump had told him that he “never suggested firing” Fed Chairman Jerome Powell. Trump also told Mnuchin he did not […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Representative Kevin McCarthy, a member of the House of Representatives Republican leadership, said on Thursday he believes the House and Senate can resolve an impasse over funding the U.S. government, which would partially shut down on Saturday without an agreement. In an interview with Fox News, McCarthy, the House majority leader, […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump has privately discussed the possibility of firing Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, a move that could roil already volatile financial markets, two sources familiar with situation said on Saturday. The sources, however, said they do not expect Trump to dismiss the U.S. central bank chief, despite the president’s […]
Cuban lawmakers on Saturday unanimously approved a revised draft of a new constitution that retains the island’s one-party socialist system but reflects its socio-economic opening since the fall of the Soviet Union. The draft new constitution, which has 229 articles and will replace a Cold War era one, will maintain the Communist Party as the […]
President Donald Trump‘s demand for border wall funds hurled the federal government closer to a shutdown as the Republican-led House approved a package Thursday with his $5.7-billion request that is almost certain to be rejected by the Senate. The White House said Trump will not travel to Florida on Friday for the Christmas holiday if the government is […]
The City of Winnipeg announced a new grant program Friday to encourage building owners to invest in lighting that will enhance downtown safety. The Building Exterior Lighting Grant Program will be doling out $300,000 over a two-year period to support improved outdoor lighting on building façades. It’s part of a multi-year downtown safety strategy. “Improved […]